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Bondi survivor gives thanks at the Rebbe’s grave

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:43:16 +0000

Yanky Super, a 24-year-old paramedic and volunteer on duty with Sydney’s Hatzalah emergency medical services, didn’t even hear a shot fired at Chabad of Bondi’s ‘Chanukah at the Sea’ event before he felt a bullet hit him in the back, collapsing his lung. One of the scores wounded during the Dec. 14 terror attack at […]

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Your say – the Wilcox cartoon

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:08:01 +0000

Reader Alan Slade writes: In the January 12 Sydney Morning Herald editorial “apology” for publishing the disgraceful antisemitic Cathy Wilcox cartoon, insulting to lawyers, business and sports people as well as Labor politicians supporting the calling of a royal commission into antisemitism in Australia, the editorial writer wrote “Although the Herald saw the need for […]

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Poem by Michael Leibowitz

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:41:57 +0000

Kadish—21 December 2025 elegy by Michael Leibowitz Death and its handmaiden—grief brought their mournful dirge to Bondi. Today we grieve for little Matilda and fourteen further slain; scythed down for the sin of being Jewish. And as we say mourner’s Kadish, others clamour for more of death’s brazen […]

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Your say

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:59:20 +0000

Your say: comments from readers It is refreshing to read Chancellor Jennifer Westacott’s account of the rise of antisemitism in universities in Australia (and around the world), and even more so her commitment to understand it and act against it. Just as affirming Indigenous Australian, Jewish history and culture needs affirming too. Any serious attempt […]

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Peace education now

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:56:14 +0000

President Trump’s Gaza peace plan, adopted by the UN Security Council on November 17, 2025, includes references to a reformed Palestinian Authority that would be able to regain control over the Gaza administration…write David Bedein and Arnon Groiss. This could serve as a pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood. Earlier this year, on September 12, […]

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David Singer says

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:05:57 +0000

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez shows his poor sense of judgement when declaring: “The sports organisations should consider whether it’s ethical for Israel to keep participating in international competitions. Why expel Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and not expel Israel after the invasion of Gaza?” I thought Gaza invaded Israel on 7 October 2023 […]

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Peter Strasser says

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:42:16 +0000

It is a disgrace to proceed with criminal proceedings against the Prime Minister while, as head of government, he is effectively in charge of Israel’s war against several deadly adversaries. Surely the circumstances demand that he devotes his entire time, energy and intense focus on every element of this now 2-year war. A serious distraction […]

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Miriam Gould says…

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:35:37 +0000

From Australia’s Jewish past Hi, how nice to see my father Werner Baer remembered. Thank you. A brief correction. Werner went to Sydney alone in 1945 and years later married his second wife, Sibilla. Their son Peter died shortly after birth and he had another son, David. Other points? My father won an Australian-wide song […]

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Australia’s antisemitic arsonist and the choice the country faces

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:51:29 +0000

As I was making preparations on Friday night for Shabbat in Columbus, Ohio, my phone buzzed with some devastating news from Australia…writes Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann. The East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, a historic synagogue in my hometown of Melbourne, had been set ablaze by an arsonist while 20 people shared a Shabbat meal inside. The attacker, […]

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Empowering connections: my journey with UIA’s Women’s Division

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:15:29 +0000

As the recipient of the 2025 Shirley Lowy Award from UIA, I had the profound privilege of participating in the International Women’s Division Mifgash to Israel in May — a five-day gathering of women from around the world to inspire, connect and network with a focus on philanthropy and support for the People of Israel…writes […]

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