Australia’s leaders send messages for Yom Ha’atzmaut

Both Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese have sent messages on Israel’s  74th birthday. Read more

Gala lunch raises $100,000 for Courage to Care

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Zac swinging to success

Six-yr-old Zac Wolfe has won the 2022 Australian Junior Age Golf Championships (under 7s division) held at Royal Pines on the Gold Coast. Read more

Maccabiah torch to make the rounds

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Hamas threatens violence as Temple Mount reopens to Jews

The Hamas terror organization is threatening that the reopening of the Temple Mount for Jewish visits on Yon Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, will lead to “a renewed escalation.” Read more

Israel stops to remember its 24,068 fallen IDF soldiers and 4,217 victims of terrorism

Israel came to a standstill on Tuesday night to mark Yom Hazikaron, its national Memorial Day, and to commemorate the 24,068 fallen IDF soldiers and 4,217 victims of terrorist attacks who have died since 1860. Read more

Haredi world population around 2.1 million out of global Jewish population of 15 million – report

The high growth rate among Haredi Jews has pushed the Haredi population past 2 million and accounts for as much as 80% of the total growth of the world’s Jewish population. Read more

University of Melbourne: antisemitic motion is not the position of the university

The University of Melbourne has reacted to the anti-Zionist motion passed by the Students Council last week which also called for an academic boycott. Read more

Herzog: ‘No one asked fallen sons and daughters who was right-wing, who was left’

Israel began marking the Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism on Tuesday evening when, at 8 p.m., a one-minute siren rang out throughout the country, causing all to stop in silence. Read more

Melbourne University Student Union resolution: The community stands as one

Zionism Victoria has written to both the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne on theresolution passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union(UMSU) on Friday titled “UMSU stands with Palestine – BDS and Solidarity Policy”. Read more

Hamas hangs banner on Temple Mount picturing terrorist with rocket launcher

Hamas operatives on Monday displayed a massive banner in the Temple Mount compound, bearing an Eid al-Fitr message to the Palestinian residents of eastern Jerusalem, against the backdrop of an armed terrorist. Read more

Immigration to Israel smashes 20-year record

Some 38,000 new immigrants will celebrate their first Independence Day as Israeli citizens this year, according to figures released by the Jewish Agency on Sunday. Read more

Escalation? Hamas claims responsibility for deadly attack in Ariel

The Hamas terror organization claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting attack at the entrance to the city of Ariel in Samaria on Friday, in which Vyacheslav Golev was murdered. Read more

MDA opens Israel’s national missile-resistant underground blood bank

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency medical service, inaugurated on Monday the world’s first subterranean, and shielded national blood services centre in Ramla, Israel, planned to withstand missile attacks during a war. Read more

IDF soldier with special needs to receive President’s Award of Excellence on Israel’s 74th Independence Day

An IDF soldier with disabilities who enlisted through a special program will make history this week on Israel’s Independence Day when he becomes the first soldier with special needs to be honoured by the president for his outstanding contribution to the IDF. Read more

‘Unforgivable and scandalous’: Israel summons Russian ambassador after Lavrov says ‘Hitler had Jewish blood’

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is facing heavy criticism after again claiming that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, was acting like a Nazi, and that “Hitler had Jewish blood. Read more

Sinwar threatens ‘war’ over Israel Police activity on the Temple Mount

The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, said on Saturday that a war would erupt unless Israel ceased enforcing the law at the Al Aqsa mosque, and accused Knesset member Mansour Abbas of treachery for joining Israel’s coalition government. Read more

2,300-year-old clay candle uncovered at Samaritan high priesthood compound in Samaria

Conservation work being carried out at the Mount Gerizim site in Samaria led to the uncovering of an ancient pottery candle, estimated to date to the Hellenistic period in the second century BCE. Read more

More to say on the Melbourne University Students Union motion

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria condemns the antisemitic motion passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union which describes Israel as a “colonialist” and “racist”. Read more

Neo-Nazi slogans deface ACT Senate candidate’s signs

Signs for Independent ACT candidate for the senate Kim Rubenstein have been defaced with antisemitic slogans. Read more

Leaders condemn the Council of the University of Melbourne Student Union

Jewish organisations have slammed the Council of the University of Melbourne Student Union for voting for a motion that was strongly anti-Israel and pro-BDS as reported on J-Wire on Friday. Read more

After treating 6,000 patients, Israeli hospital in Ukraine closes

Israel’s “Shining Star” field hospital in the city of Mostyska in western Ukraine ended its operations after six weeks of providing medical care to refugees in the country and treating more than 6,000 cases. Read more

A new light  . . . .  A Green light

While antisemitism and racism appear to be on the rise there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel. In this case it is a green light. Read more

Israeli murdered in Samaria attack, terrorists captured

Arab terrorists shot and killed an Israeli man at the entrance to the city of Ariel in Samaria on Friday, and the two were captured less than 24 hours later by Israeli security forces. Read more

3D-printing method may curb reef devastation plaguing coral ecosystems

In a paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, researchers from four of Israel’s leading universities highlight a three-dimensional printing method they developed to preserve coral reefs. Their innovation is based on the natural structure of coral reefs off the southern coastal Israeli city of Eilat, but their model is adaptable to other marine environments and may help curb reef devastation plaguing coral ecosystems around the world. Read more

Yom HaShoah in Perth

This year’s Yom Hashoah commemoration in Perth’s Carmel Primary School Hall was well attended by the Perth Jewish community, Survivors, friends and several WA State and Federal politicians, and diplomats. Read more

‘King of Kink’ show opens at Jewish Museum

Fans of Helmut Newton’s iconic fashion images might be surprised to learn the acclaimed photographer spent years labouring in the Australian Army and was even detained as an enemy alien, assigned to latrine duties. Read more

University of Melbourne’s Students’ Union passes motion supporting Palestine and BDS

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has strongly condemned the motion which was passed 10-6. Read more

‘Memory that makes us grow’: Israel remembers the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust

The State of Israel marked the beginning of Yom HaShoah, its national Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, on Wednesday night with an official ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in memory of six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Read more

Yom HaShoah in Sydney

In Sydney, almost 2000 members of the NSW Jewish community watched the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ Yom Hashoah commemoration, both in-person and online. Read more

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