President Herzog lights the 8th candle with hostage families

President Isaac Herzog lit the eighth candle of Chanukah last night at “Hostage Square” in Tel Aviv with the families of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Read more

Two hostages confirmed dead, bodies still held by Hamas

An Israeli and a Tanzanian taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 have died in captivity in Gaza, their respective kibbutzim announced in a joint statement on Wednesday night. Read more

Emergency fund to help rebuild Israeli border farms

An Israeli agricultural non-governmental organization has launched a $50 million emergency fund to rebuild farming communities near the Gaza border badly damaged in the Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

Jacqui Lambie visits Hobart Synagogue

The Hobart Hebrew Congregation hosted Senator Lambie for a meet and greet to express gratitude for the Senator’s speeches in Parliament that so eloquently call out antisemitism, detail the barbaric attack of 7 October, and argue for Israel’s right to defend itself. Read more

Rampant antisemitism in New Zealand’s schools

In an ongoing survey of Jewish parents being undertaken by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand since 22 November 2023, there is concerning evidence of high levels of antisemitism in New Zealand’s schools. Read more

Melbourne calls out the Red Cross to do its job

Jewish community members Tamar Paluch and Simone Whine have led a protest held outside the offices of the Red Cross in Melbourne. Read more

A Muslim talks on Chanukah

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Israel confirms nine soldiers killed in Gaza ambush

Ten soldiers were killed fighting in northern Gaza on Tuesday, the Israel Defence Forces confirmed on Wednesday morning. Nine were killed in a coordinated Hamas ambush in Shejaya. Read more

Barak calls for Netanyahu’s ouster despite war raging

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak recently laid out his plans to oust the current premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Read more

What river? What sea?

Some may wonder what students understand when they chant the antisemitic slogan “From the river to the sea.” Read more

Israel recovers bodies of two hostages

Israeli soldiers recovered the bodies of two hostages in Gaza and brought them back to Israel. Read more

Polish ultranationalist MP extinguishes Chanukah candle

An ultranationalist MP in the Polish parliament has used a fire extinguisher to put out a candle on a menorah that was lit for Chanukah. Read more

Israelis mobilise to bring the Light of Chanukah to the troops

As Israel enters the third month of its war against Hamas, fundraising efforts to provide Israeli soldiers on the frontlines with the means to celebrate Chanukah have multiplied. Read more

Australia votes in favour of Gaza ceasefire at UN: Community response

Australia has voted in favour of a UN resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for a “sustainable ceasefire” with his Canadian and New Zealand counterparts. Read more

Jerusalem: ‘No UN chief has done more to secure the survival of a terrorist organization’

Israel’s government sharply criticized U.N. chief António Guterres on Monday, with a Prime Minister’s Office spokesman telling the press, “I don’t think any U.N. secretary-general in history has gone so far to secure the survival of a terrorist organization.” Read more

Sole survivor of family celebrates bar mitzvah two months after massacre

Two months after his parents and two sisters were brutally murdered in their home by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 massacre at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Ariel Zohar celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday. Read more

IDF slays dozens of terrorists in Gaza Strip

The IDF continued to push deeper into the Gaza Strip on day 66 of “Swords of Iron”—the military operation to eliminate the threat of Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre in the northwestern Negev. Read more

Maccabi World Union unveils memorial to victims of Oct. 7

Maccabi World Union unveiled a memorial to the 1,200 victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel and Sports Club complex in Ramat Gan. Read more

Walt Secord slams keffiyeh protest

Entertainers Australia-wide have put their names to a protest tomorrow, replicating the keffiyeh wearing on stage, which sparked a bitter dispute between the Sydney Theatre Company and three foundation directors. Read more

Steven Spielberg to document stories of Israeli survivors of Hamas massacre

The Shoah Foundation of the University of Southern California, founded by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, has begun collecting the testimonies of Israeli survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres. Read more

Gaza responses cause division in arts community

A third director of the Sydney Theatre Company Foundation has quit in the wake of pro-Palestine protests by actors. Read more

Immigrants from the former USSR in the medical professions employed by Israel’s hospitals

In June, over 100 participants in the “Masa “medical track passed the Ministry of Health licensing exams and are certified to practice medicine in Israel with a pass rate of over 90%. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel slams The Greens

Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller condemn the ignorance, racism, and antisemitism of the Greens MPs in the Australian Senate in recent weeks and of the Greens’ mayoral candidate for Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan. Read more

Stronger together: UIA and ZFA Leadership Solidarity Mission to Israel

UIA Australia President Esther Frenkiel and Zionist Federation of Australia President Jeremy Leibler, together with a delegation of Australian Jewish leaders, recently embarked on a whirlwind four-day solidarity mission to Israel. Read more

Mount Scopus College: “Wonderful VCE results”

The results of over 75% of Melbourne’s Mount Scopus College Year 12 were in the top 20% of the state. Read more

Israeli families absent loved ones mark a sombre Chanukah

“We always celebrated Chanukah as a family,” Eyal Waldman, 63, from Tel Aviv, explained to the Tazpit Press Service. “We went skiing in Courchevel [in France]. Now, wherever we go, at every celebration and every family event, Danielle will be missing.” Read more

A matter of interpretation: blood libel in Melbourne

A well-known Melbourne comedian/TV star and a former Greens mayor of a Melbourne municipality have shocked Zionism Victoria by posting on social media that the IDF is preparing mass executions in Gaza. Read more

From the Prime Minister

To the Jewish people of Australia — and around the world — Chag Urim Sameach…writes Anthony Albanese. Read more

From the Leader of the Opposition

An atmosphere of sadness and unease will hang over this year’s Chanukah celebrations…writes PeterDutton. Read more

240,000 Israelis living in limbo after Oct. 7

Around 240,000 Israelis from devastated communities near Gaza and towns near Lebanon under fire have been forced to evacuate to date. Read more

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