WJC “disturbed” about South African, Kuwait and Indonesian move in U.N.

The World Jewish Congress is disturbed by the United Nations Security Council’s agreement to hold a special meeting condemning Israeli settlements on Thursday – at the request of South Africa, Indonesia and Kuwait  – just days after a barrage of some 700 deadly rockets were fired by terrorists from the Gaza Strip against southern Israel without condemnation or rebuke by the same body. Read more

Rivlin visits Iris again and again with condolences

President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin paid a condolence call on the Feder family whose father Moshe Feder ז”ל was killed on Monday when an anti-tank missile struck him. Read more

Yom Ha’azmaut in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attended the torch-lighting ceremony on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, to mark Israel’s 71st Independence Day yesterday. Read more

Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools accepted into the NRS

Melbourne’s Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools Limited (YBRSL) has been accepted into the National Redress Scheme (NRS). Read more

Israel’s Independence Day 2019 report card

Israel’s population is 9,021,000 as it prepares for its 71st Indnependence Day. Read more

Cisco names Israeli school best in European region

The Cisco Networking Academy has awarded Boys Town Jerusalem the Above and Beyond Award for 2019. Read more

Two MPs go public on antisemitic attacks

The Liberal MP for Berowra Julian Lesser and Independent MP for Wentworth Dr Kerryn Phelps have reacted to antisemitic incidents during their election campaigns. Read more

Michael Danby attends Anzac Day service in France

Labor MP Michael Danby attended the 2019 Anzac Day Dawn Service at Villers- Bretonneux in France last week, as the Federal Opposition’s representative. Read more

The rockets’ toll

President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin has paid condolence calls on the Prezuazman family, whose son Pinchas Menachem was killed yesterday  by flying shrapnel in Ashdod; the Agadi family, whose father Moshe was killed on Saturday in a rocket attack on Askhelon; and the al-Hamamda family whose father Ziad was killed yesterday in the rocket attack on the factory in Ashkelon. Read more

President Rivlin meets members of the IDF’s casualties unit

President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin met members of the IDF’s casualties unit this morning at Beit HaNasi. Read more

Our Big Shul remembers Poway

Our New Shul at Bondi’s Harry Triguboff Centre held a Friday evening service in solidarity with Chabad of Poway which was attacked by a sole gunman at the end of Passover. Read more

Frydenberg posters defaced again

Prime Minister Scott Morrison had denounced the vandalising of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s election posters stating “this is about crimes and hate.” Read more

WJC appeals to UNSC to condemn rocket attacks

After a barrage of hundreds of rockets struck Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the World Jewish Congress appealed to Indonesia, as president of the United Nations Security Council, to lead the international community in unequivocally condemning Hamas and holding it responsible for the terrorist acts that it continues to carry out and enable in the territory under its control. Read more

KKL-JNF and B’nai B’rith mark heroism of Jewish Rescuers during Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony 

The B’nai B’rith World Centre in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) have held a unique joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah). Read more

NSWJBD congratulates new Governor for NSW

Her Excellency Margaret Beazley AO QC is the 39th Governor of New South Wales starting her five-year tenure today. Read more

March of the Living to focus on Greek Holocaust victims; Israeli, Polish top leaders not expected

Ahead of the annual International March of the Living beginning on Thursday, no senior Israeli and Polish officials are expected to be on the trip amid tensions between Jerusalem and Warsaw. Read more

JCCV slams anti-Muslim comments

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has condemned the views of the former Liberal candidate for the Melbourne seat of Isaacs for his disgraceful anti-Muslim comments. Read more

Frank Lowy doc…a clip

Having survived the Holocaust, Sir Frank Lowy went on to become one of Australia’s wealthiest people, with a net worth of over $6 billion. Read more

A Shul comes back to life

A synagogue closed down in 1898 will be used for a Shabbat service next week. Read more

Another Labor candidate disendorsed

Another Labor candidate for the upcoming election has been dropped by the party for an antisemitic comment. Read more

World Jewish Congress delegation arrives in San Diego to mourn with local community

A World Jewish Congress delegation has arrived in San Diego to stand in solidarity with the local Jewish community in the wake of the horrific shooting at the Chabad congregation of Poway that claimed the life of Lori Gilbert Kaye and wounded three others. Read more

Remembering WWII on ANZAC Day

The Founding Director of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand Inge Woolf spoke at an ANZAC Day Service in Wellington. Read more

Jukebox Jewkbox!

The Sydney Jewish Museum is presenting a new interactive exhibition that takes visitors on a musical journey through the records that changed lives and the technology that made it happen. Read more

Alert level raised

The Alert Level for the Jewish Community in Australia has been raised to Level 5, ‘Heightened’. Read more

The Times They are not a-changin’

This week’s cartoon from Feintooner. Read more

Poway: more reactions and a hoax threat to Sydney synagogue

More messages of condolences following the fatal attack on the Chabad synagogue in California…and police search Sydney’s Central Synagogue following a threat. Read more

Leaders condemn vicious attack on California synagogue: “People of all faiths must stand together against such hatred”

The World Jewish Congress has condemned the vicious attack unleashed against a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, just six months after the deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh which claimed 11 lives. 60-yr-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye died in this latest attack. Read more

CCTV boost in Bondi to fight racist graffiti

Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma announced a re-elected Morrison Government will invest $143,000 in enhanced CCTV at Bondi Beach to fight back against a recent spate of racist graffiti along the famous promenade. Read more

Wellington included in world-wide doco screening

Wellington will feature on a map highlighting cities around the world where the film is ‘Who will write our history’, a documentary about the secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War 2.a particular film screening has taken place. Read more

MP’s election poster daubed with swastika and Hitler moustache

Election posters for Liberal MP Julian Lesser have been daubed with swastikas and Hitler moustaches. Read more

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