Jewish House partners with Lifeline for Pesach

Jewish House has today announced a partnership with Lifeline’s Harbour to Hawkesbury branch which will extend across NSW to provide additional counselling support to people in the Jewish community distressed in the lead-up to, and during, Passover. Read more

Sydney’s JCA to provide up to $18million to support increased community needs

Including the $1 million in emergency financial relief announced last Thursday, JCA will provide up to $18m to ensure that the community has the resources and backing it requires to continue to provide vital services. Read more

No new government in sight

The Likud and Blue and White parties continued their negotiations towards the establishment of a government, but no resolution appears in sight. Read more

Number of Coronavirus patients in Israel passes 8,000 mark

There are 8,018 diagnosed Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Israel, the Ministry of Health updated Sunday morning of whom 137 are in serious condition. Read more

Israel’s FM congratulates UK Labour new leader on his victory, expresses hopes for better ties

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz congratulated Keir Starmer on his election to lead the UK’s Labour Party over the weekend. Read more

Chag Sameach from Josh Burns

I want to wish all members of our Jewish community a Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more

Pesach greeting from the Premier of NSW

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Ride with the Israel national cycling team

Israel’s only professional cycling team, Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN), is inviting fans from across the world to join a series of online team rides, in order to help secure protective masks for medical staff fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Israeli missile-production line starts churning out much-needed ventilators

In ordinary times, Israel Aerospace Industry’s Systems Missiles Space group churns out advanced missiles, including interceptors used by the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 defence systems. Read more

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ Pesach message

With Pesach approaching, I would like to send my very best wishes to the Victorian Jewish community. Read more

Jewish, pro-Israel groups react to overturned sentences in murder of journalist Daniel Pearl

Jewish and pro-Israel organizations expressed shock and contempt over a Pakistani court on Thursday that overturned the four convictions related to the 2002 killing of Wall Street Journal Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl. Read more

Adopt-A-Safta offers ‘Seder Boxes’ for isolated elderly, immigrants in Israel

Adopt-A-Safta, Israel’s leading nonprofit initiative that pairs young adults throughout Israel with elderly, is appealing for donations for “Seder Boxes”—complete Passover seder kits delivered to their front doors. Read more

Israeli researchers believe coronavirus vaccine testing could commence by June

Israeli researchers said they are days away from finishing production of the active component of a coronavirus vaccine that could be tested on humans starting June 1. Read more

Amazon apologizes for Hitler book disguised as dog-training manual

Amazon has apologized to a British customer who called on the online retail giant to “immediately” remove from sale a book disguised as a puppy-training manual that in fact contains a full reprint of a 1930s Nazi propaganda book eulogizing Adolf Hitler’s achievements, ideology and work. Read more

Dr Jonathan Schanzer participates in AIJAC webinar

Dr Jonathan Schanzer told an AIJAC webinar 2020 will be the year of Iran’s Precision-Guided Missile. Read more

Haredi: It’s OK to use the phone on Shabbat

ZAKA Search and Rescue volunteers visited the homes of over 60 confirmed coronavirus cases among haredi communities in Israel during this Shabbat in order to ensure they immediately self-isolate. Read more

Latest report: Australian Jewish community management of COVID-19 pandemic

Jewish community organisations and leaders across Australia continue their efforts to manage the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Jewish institutions, families, individuals and, most especially, the elderly and vulnerable.  Read more

Israel steps up actions to stem spread of Coronavirus in ultra-orthodox communities

The Ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak was placed under an almost complete closure on Wednesday after the city has emerged as an epicentre for the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Read more

Maccabiah Games rescheduled

Maccabi World Union’s leadership together with the Maccabiah Organising Committee have made the decision to postpone the 21st Maccabiah to the Northern Summer of 2022. Read more

Dedicated web site for New Zealand

The New Zealand Jewish Community Assistance has been launched to help those in need of support during the current pandemic. Read more

Our Big Kitchen spreads its wings

Sydney’s commercial kosher kitchen OBK is throwing its total resources in helping those finding these trying times beyond their capabilities…and not just within the Jewish community. Read more

This global health crisis and Passover

A special message from Prime Minister Scott Morrison for an out of the ordinary Passover. Read more

UK Home Office grants more than A$28 million for security at Jewish institutions

The U.K. Home Office has granted more than £17 million (A$28m)to the Community Security Trust, a charity that helps Jewish institutions with security and fight antisemitism. Read more

Heading home for Pesach on a record-breaking flight

The historic first-ever El Al flight to Melbourne is now heading back to Tel Aviv carrying around 175 Israeli passengers home in time for Pesach. Read more

J-AIR apologies for homophobic content

In a statement, J-AIR has unreservedly apologised for broadcasting and podcasting comments that vilified the gay community in one of its regular programs. Read more

Israelis ordered to wear masks in public: closure placed on Bnei Brak    

All Israelis will be required to wear face masks in public, and the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak was placed under an almost complete closure, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned that Israel is “still in the midst of an international tsunami” in wake of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read more

J-Air broadcast invokes homosexuality as partly to blame for the pandemic

An American rabbi interviewed by Israeli radio host Tamar Yonah said that homosexuality is “an incredible corruption of Man’s nature” and is one cause of the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

After recovering from the Coronavirus: father and son return to MDA

A month ago. Yoel Galtt (45) from Einav, a senior medic in MDA, began to feel unwell. Read more

Israel’s Minister of Health diagnosed with Coronavirus

Israel’s Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman and his wife were diagnosed on Wednesday night with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Read more

JCA launches COVID-19 Jewish Emergency Relief Fund 

NSW’s JCA, in partnership with JewishCare, has launched the COVID-19 Jewish Emergency Relief Fund to provide assistance to members of our local Jewish community who are in financial crisis as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

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