UNRWA head: PA textbooks do include antisemitism, glorification of terrorism

The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) acknowledged that antisemitism and the glorification of terror can be found in school textbooks distributed by the Palestinian Authority, though insisted that it is not taught by his agency. Read more

NSW Counter Terrorism Is tracking 80 people, NSW parliamentary hearing told

A NSW Parliamentary hearing has heard that NSW Police Counter Terrorism are tracking about 80 people considered to be capable of “tier one” and “tier two” threats to the general community and it was split between religious and political extremism. Read more

Herzog visits family of slain Border Police officer

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A Rosh Hashanah message from Natalie Ward

Natalie Ward is the NSW Minister for Sport, Multiculturalism, Seniors and Veterans. Read more

Downer tells AIJAC US policy on Afghanistan “pretty alarming”

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) was honoured to have as its webinar guest Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister,  Alexander Downer, who spoke on “Australia’s Performance in a Challenging and Changing World”. Read more

Aleph thanks the Andrews government

Aleph Melbourne has commended the Victorian Government, under the leadership of Premier Daniel Andrews, for its ongoing commitment to protecting all Victorians from hate, and for standing steadfastly strong with Jewish and LGBTIQ+ Victorians. Read more

Founder of far-right party in France on trial for inciting antisemitism

The trial has begun against Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s main far-right political party National Front (FN), who faces charges of inciting racial hatred against a Jewish pop singer and actor. Read more

Gefilte fish – an acquired taste

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WATCH: A Rosh Hashanah message from the ECAJ

Jillian Segal, president of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, sends a message to Australian Jewry. Read more

Rosh Hashanah message from Anthony Albanese

On behalf of the Australian Labor Party, I wish the Australian Jewish community a Shana Tova U’Metukah – a sweet and happy new year. As I said this time last year, it is a wish that is even more powerfully heartfelt during this time of pandemic; I have every hope that is a sentence I never have to repeat again. Read more

Rosh Hashanah message from Alex Hawke

I send my best wishes to the Jewish-Australian community as you join the Jewish community around the world in celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and prepare for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Read more

The Prime Minister’s Rosh Hashanah message

I extend my warmest greetings to all who are marking Rosh Hashanah – the start of the Jewish New Year and the anniversary of the beginning of life. Read more

Israel’s consulate in New York honours 9/11 victims on 20th anniversary of attacks

Acting Consul General of Israel in New York Israel Nitzan and the Port Authority Police Department gathered at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to mark the Jewish calendar’s 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and its victims. Read more

Thar she blows

NSW Health has granted an exemption for shofar-blowing on Rosh Hashanah following a successful application by The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah message from Chris Minns

The Leader of the Opposition in NSW sends his Rosh Hashanah message. Read more

Yair Lapid criticizes U.S. Afghanistan pull out and slams plans to reopen consulate in Eastern Jerusalem

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held a press conference yesterday and had some harsh words for the American government on a number of topics. Read more

Naftali Bennett talks to young Israelis on TikTok

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has held a live meeting on his TikTok page with young people about the return to classes against the background of the fight against the coronavirus, the vaccines, the education plan and the ‘Green Pass”. Read more

Banning swastikas: Victoria leads the way

Victoria will become the first state or territory in Australia to make the public display of Nazi symbols illegal – in a landmark reform to help stamp out hateful behaviour and boost human rights protections. Read more

Shalom partners with Hakoah

Sydney’s Shalom has signed up to be the first announced preferred partner of Hakoah at Sydney’s White City. Read more

WATCH: President Herzog wishes Shana Tova to Jewish World, his ‘extended family’

In honour of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year to be celebrated on Tuesday and Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog has released a special greeting for Diaspora Jewry, wishing everyone “a year of health and of coming together.” Read more

NSW Education Department “reviewing” its decision to block release of information surrounding antisemitic post

The NSW State Government has agreed to an “internal review” of its decision to block the release of documents relating to an Education department employee who posted antisemitic comments alongside a photo of Adolf Hitler on the Australasian Union of Jewish Students’ Facebook page. Read more

Bennett’s office: no plans to meet with Abbas

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had no plans to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, his office clarified yesterday after the media had reported on a pending meeting. Read more

Prime Minister at first day of school

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Education Minister Dr Yifat Shasha-Biton and Yerucham Mayor Tal Ohana, yesterday opened the 2021-2022 school year. at the Eli Cohen Meuchad School in Yerucham. Read more

Wearing a kippah, man attacked on his way to Shul as son watches

A 48-year old Jewish man has been punched and abused in a Brisbane city street, during broad daylight, while on the way to the synagogue with his 11-year old son last Shabbat. Read more

Satisfaction in Ramallah following Gantz-Abbas meeting

Great satisfaction was registered in Ramallah following the meeting on Sunday night between Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Read more

The Chief Rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah message

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is the spiritual leader of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His Rosh Hashanah message. Read more

2.4 million Israeli students return to class amid COVID-19 wave

Some 2,458,000 Israeli children from kindergarten through high school returned to class on Wednesday and began the school year, amid a high Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection rate in the country. Read more

Filmmakers focus their lens on the Bowraville murders

In 1990-91 three kids disappeared from an Aboriginal Mission on the same street in Bowraville, a tiny country town in northern NSW: 16-year-old Colleen Walker-Craig, 4-year-old Evelyn Greenup, and 16-year-old Clinton Speedy-Duroux. Read more

ECAJ discusses national curriculum with education minister

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has met with the Federal Minister for Education and Youth  Alan Tudge to discuss the national curriculum which is currently under review by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.  Read more

Gazans riot, Bennett approves relief for Strip

Hamas-led riots continued on the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on Tuesday night, as Naftali Bennett’s government approved more relief for the Strip. Read more

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