ACMA dismisses complaints against ABC’s Q&A Israel/Hamas program
April 19, 2022 by J-Wire News Service
On May 21 last year, the believed disparity of the panel on a Q&A debating the Hamas/Israel conflict resulted in Jewish leadership registering complaints to the ABC but the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has eventually dismissed them. Read more
Beverly Hills residents wake up to antisemitic flyers on first day of Passover
April 19, 2022 by JNS
Antisemitic flyers blaming Russia’s nearly two-month-long war in Ukraine on Jews were left in front of homes in Beverly Hills, Calif., on the first day of Passover. Read more
A seder for Scott
April 18, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended the Shabbat/Passover service 0n Friday night at the Ark Centre in Melbourne’s Hawthorn East. Read more
Muslims use ancient artifacts to block Jewish visits to Temple Mount
April 18, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Muslim vandals blocked this morning the paths on the Temple Mount on which the Jewish visitors usually traverse with rocks metal polls, and ancient artifacts, some apparently dating to the Second Temple era some 2,000 years ago. Read more
Violence threatened and PA alleges ‘Judaization and ethnic cleansing’ on Temple Mount
April 18, 2022 by TPS-IL
Senior Islamic Jihad official Muhammad Shalach said in an interview Sunday that the terror factions in Gaza Strip are “determined to respond at all costs” if Israel causes a large number of casualties, a “massacre” as he put it, during the IDF’s counterterrorism operation in Jenin, or if a Passover offering is sacrificed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Read more
Victorian Daniel Andrews send a Pesach message
April 15, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
It gives me great pleasure to wish the Victorian Jewish community good health, happiness and peace during Passover this year. Read more
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen: Jerusalem must be capital of two states
April 15, 2022 by Yossi Lempkowicz - JNS
“Jerusalem must become the capital of both states, Israel and a Palestinian state, pending a negotiated settlement of the conflict,” said French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen during a press briefing on foreign policy issues. Read more
Four Jews arrested for planning to sacrifice Passover offering on Temple Mount
April 14, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Police arrested four Israeli Jews who stated they had plans to sacrifice a lamb on Friday on the Temple Mount ahead of the Passover holiday. Read more
Three terrorists killed during IDF counterterrorism ops
April 14, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israeli security forces continued their counterterrorism operation throughout Judea and Samaria on Wednesday night, part of Operation Wave Breaker, during which three terrorists were killed. Read more
A Seder with the Herzogs
April 14, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog will host a traditional Seder night at the President’s Residence for the first time. Read more
UIA world leaders visit Poland and Ukraine
April 14, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Steven Lowy, Chairman, World Board of Trustees and Sam Grudwerg World Chairman headed a two-day mission to Poland and Ukraine. Here is their report: Read more
From Israel with love: six 4×4 ambulances
April 14, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Magen David Adom has donated six all-terrain (4×4) ambulances to the people of Ukraine. Read more
Students unite with brothers and sisters from Ukraine
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA recently collaborated with Jewish Primary Schools in Sydney to connect students to their Jewish brothers and sisters in Ukraine who have suddenly found themselves as refugees. Read more
Mobileye’s self-driving taxi service set to start this year
April 13, 2022 by JNS
Mobileye announced that its autonomous vehicles are on track to launch in Israel and Germany later this year. Read more
Jewish jockey wins Grand National on a 50/1 shot
Jewish jockey Sam Waley-Cohen has won the world-famous U.K. Grand National on 50/1 shot Noble Yeats in a fairytale ending to his career. Read more
Ukraine update from the JDC The Joint
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A member of JDC The Joint’s staff filed this latest report from the Former Soviet Union yesterday. Read more
Noa Tishby appointed Israel’s first ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel
April 13, 2022 by TPS-IL
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has announced the appointment of the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. Israeli artist, author and model Noa Tishby will be the first person to fill the newly-established position. Read more
Prime Minister Scott Morrison sends his Passover message
April 13, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
As the sun sets at Passover, Jewish families in Australia and around the globe will come together to find strength in faith, family, fellowship and community. Read more
Leifer wants jury to decide abuse charges – trial brought forward
April 13, 2022 by AAP
The trial for former ultra-orthodox school principal and accused child abuser Malka Leifer will begin in August. Read more
Ukranian orphans celebrate their bar mitzvahs at the Kotel
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Just weeks after being forced to flee their homes in the town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a group of 13-year-old boys participated in an emotional Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall on Monday. The boys and their classmates, all of whom lived in an orphanage in the town near Kyiv, were part of an annual Bar Mitzvah ceremony for orphan boys made possible by the Colel Chabad social services organization in Israel. Read more
NSW Opposition in talks with faith leaders
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark, together with leaders from the Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu communities, met NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns and key members of his leadership team to discuss a number of issues and priorities for their respective communities. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sigmond (Solomon) Hoffnung – an entrepreneurial merchant of his time
April 12, 2022 by Features Desk
Sigmond was born in 1830 in Kalisz, Poland and was the elder son of Rev Samuel Hoffnung and his mother Caroline.
Ultra-orthodox city to name street after Israeli-Christian cop killed defending it
April 12, 2022 by TPS-IL
The Council of the Ultra-Orthodox city of Beni Brak approved a proposal to commemorate Amir Khoury, an Israeli-Christian police officer who was killed last month while confronting a terrorist who was on a shooting rampage in the city. Read more
Walt Secord sends his Pesach message
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
As NSW Shadow Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism and as deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel, it is once again my pleasure to wish friends and family in the NSW Jewish community – a Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more
Ensuring Holocaust survivors’ stories live on
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The theme of this year’s communal Yom Hashoah commemoration in NSW is “Keeping Alive the Stories of Survival”…writes Dane Stern. Read more
A passover message from Anthony Albanese
April 12, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
It gives me great pleasure to offer you the greeting that has been a shining thread through the centuries: Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more
Muslims again desecrate Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem
April 11, 2022 by TPS-IL
Muslim rioters again entered Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) on Monday morning and desecrated the shrine, a Jewish prayer site. Read more
High Court: PA liable for terrorism due to stipends it pays terrorists
April 11, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The High Court of Justice ruled Sunday that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) practice of paying stipends to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and their families constitutes “ratification” of the terrorists’ actions and therefore the PA “shares in the wrongdoings” committed by the terrorists-detainees and is liable to pay damages to the Israeli victims of terrorism. Read more
Ukrainian refugees try OBK borscht
April 11, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen and Kangarusski ZFA have hosted eight Ukrainian families who arrived in Australia over the past few weeks having escaped the war. Read more
Herzog on video link with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe aboard the International Space Station
April 11, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have spoken tonight via video link with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe, live from the International Space Station, where he is stationed as part of the Rakia Mission. Read more
