Actor Hugh Grant stumps for Jewish MP, calls out antisemitism in Labour Party

British actor Hugh Grant attacked Labour’s inactivity in combating antisemitism within the party while on the campaign trail with a Jewish MP who left the party over its controversial policies. Read more

Too little, too late? Corbyn says he’s ‘very sorry’ for antisemitism

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Tuesday morning that he is “very sorry for everything that had has happened” with antisemitism in his party after repeatedly being asked to apologize on live television. Read more

NZ Broadcast Standards Authority rejects complaint about the usage of “Jew” as a slur

The New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority has decided not to uphold a complaint from a member of the public over the use of the word ‘Jew’  by a rugby player on TV as a racist slur. Read more

Anticipating Hitler’s rise pre-war politician told family to get as far away from Germany as possible

The death in New Zealand’s Wairarapa Valley of Tony Haas severs one of the closest surviving human links with Germany’s Nazi era. Read more

Israel’s Supreme Court orders alleged sex offender Malka Leifer to appear before psychiatric panel

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered alleged sex offender Malka Leifer to appear before a psychiatric panel that will rule on whether she is mentally fit to face extradition to Australia hearings. Read more

French parliament to vote on Israel hatred as a form of antisemitism

France’s parliament on Tuesday will vote on a draft resolution that says hatred of Israel is a form of antisemitism. Read more

Amazon removes ornaments showing images of Auschwitz

Amazon has removed Christmas ornaments, a bottle opener and a mouse pad that showed images of the Auschwitz concentration camps amid a backlash from the memorial that manages the site where the Nazis killed more than 1 million people—the majority of them Jewish men, women and children—during the Holocaust. Read more

If Labour Party wins control of Parliament, Corbyn vows to stop UK arms to Israel

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday that if his party controls Parliament in the United Kingdom following elections on Dec. 12, Israel would no longer receive arms from Great Britain. Read more

A brainstorming week in Melbourne

Melbourne has welcomed Professor Ehud Cohen, Director of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Brain Disease Research Centre. Read more

NSW regional Jewish community gains new burial grounds

A new Jewish section at Worrigee Cemetery (near Nowra) has been consecrated by the Head of the Sydney Beth Din, Rabbi Ulman. Read more

Another round of negotiations between Likud and Blue White fails, parties exchange blows

Another round of negotiations between the Likud and Blue and White political parties on the establishment of a unity government failed, as both sides exchanged accusations and as the prospects of a third round of elections within a year loom large. Read more

Australian Honour Wall at Yad Vashem full – a second one underway

A second Australian Yad Vashem honour wall for Holocaust victims and survivors is planned at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more

Jewish Care Victoria elects new President

Jewish Care Victoria elected Susie Ivany its new President who lead the organisation at a meeting of the Board of Governance last week. Read more

Defence Minister approves establishment of new Israeli neighbourhood in Hebron

Defence Minister Naftali Bennett has ordered the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the Civil Administration (CA) in Judea and Samaria to notify the Hebron municipality of Israel’s plans to build a new neighbourhood in the city. Read more

‘Israel stands with the resilient londoners,’ senior official says

“Israel stands with the resilient Londoners, who have again become a target of brutal terrorism,” Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Yuval Rotem stated on Saturday night after an attack in the heart of the city in which a Muslim terrorist stabbed and murdered two people. Read more

“One of the few non-Armenians to speak about the Armenian genocide”

The Armenian community held a minute’s silence in honour of Genocide and Shoah scholar, Prof Colin Tatz – acknowledging his life-long role in fighting for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Read more

Religious Discrimination Bill rework OK says ECAJ

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed the Federal government’s decision to issue a revised and further exposure draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill. Read more

Antisemitism report’s results tabled in the Senate

Australian Senator Stirling Griff moved a motion in Australian Senat this week following the publication of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry antisemitism report released last Sunday. Read more

Importance of religious freedom examined at interfaith breakfast

The importance of championing diversity and inclusion were key themes at Australian Catholic University’s (ACU’s) fifth Parliamentary Interfaith Breakfast at Parliament House in Melbourne this week. Read more

A “rose?” by another name

NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel Deputy Chair Walt Secord has warned that the notorious antisemitic LaRouche movement-aligned Citizens Electoral Council of Australia is trying to rebrand itself – as a new political party. Read more

Germany bans Hezbollah

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has welcomed the decision of the Federal Government of Germany to ban the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah terrorist militia. Read more

UIA Victorian AGM launched the 2020 Campaign

The UIA Victorian Annual General Meeting took place recently at Caulfield Park Pavilion after a highly successful year. Read more

Forget Black Friday, it’s Breakthrough Thursday!

This year, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers Professor Liran Carmel and Dr. David Gokhman received significant international attention when they gave the world its first glimpse of Denisovan, the mysterious human species that lived 100,000 years ago but went extinct. Read more

PepsiCo gains SodaStream, seeks to expand plant in southern Israel

PepsiCo, which acquired Israeli home beverage-maker SodaStream last year, is planning to expand the company’s plant in southern Israel, according to a Globes report. Read more

Discovery by Hebrew University scientists could revolutionize chemotherapy

It is a feeling that many who receive a cancer diagnosis can identify with: heartbreak and fear, followed by hopes that chemotherapy will save the day.  Unfortunately, for many patients, chemo’s painful side effects cause them to stop treatment prematurely. Read more

Rivlin meets UK Chief Rabbi who denounced Corbyn over antisemitism scandal

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has met with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis in London, a day after the rabbi publicly accused UK’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of allowing the “poison” of antisemitism to take root in the Labour party. Read more

In BBC interview, Labour leader Corbyn refuses to apologize for antisemitism

Pressed to explain and apologize to the British Jewish community over antisemitism concerns, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, in a Tuesday BBC interview with Andrew Neil, refused to apologize. Read more

Melbourne-Tel Aviv planned for 2020

El Al has advised the Tel Aviv Exchange that it trialling return flights from Tel Aviv to Melbourne with a possibility of opening the route to traffic in the second quarter of next year. Read more

Basketball: Moriah College v Boys Town Jerusalem – a very happy result

Fourteen Year 11 boys from Sydney’s Moriah College now in Jerusalem on an Israel Study Tour (IST) program took to the basketball court for an impromptu match with students at the Boys Town Jerusalem school. Read more

UIA Victorian Women’s Division 2020 Campaign launch

The UIA Victorian Women’s Division launched its 2020 campaign recently with keynote speaker, Kfir Damari, co-founder of SpaceIL. Read more

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