It’s been a long time coming but the first stage of New Zealand’s new Jewish museum is now up and running online - and it’s just the beginning of what will be a dynamic and evolving resource.
Early voting has started in New Zealand’s fast-approaching general election, so where do the country’s various parties and politicians stand on issues relating to the Jewish community? Miriam Bell reports.
NZSki has, once again, doubled down on their refusal to remove the Mt Hutt ski field’s homage to former Waffen SS soldier Willi Huber – unless they receive evidence he committed war crimes.
In this day and age, Jewish museums worldwide function as educational and cultural centres, as well as platforms for social dialogue. They can be agents of change and development and, as such, have an important role to play the contemporary world.
Miriam Bell: There’s been a significant increase in the amount of Jewish New Zealanders who think antisemitism is a “very big” or a “fairly big” problem, according to a new survey of New Zealand’s Jewish community.
New Zealand's Queens Birthday Honours list included filmmaker Taika Waititi and Wellington Jewish Council chair David Zwartz. Both have been made Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Wellington’s Temple Sinai has distanced itself from an opinion column, written by two of its congregants, which urged the city council not to consider the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.
It is critical to tell and retell the stories of those who perished in the Holocaust, and of those who survived, to fight against the rise of antisemitism and to ensure that such a genocide never happens again.
New Zealand has not formally suspended funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) confirmed on Monday.
