Following months of legal appeals – April election results may change

The Central Elections Committee on Wednesday decided to disqualify a ballot box in the Arab town of Kisra-Sumei, which is currently under police investigation for election fraud. The ramifications of the cancellation could potentially alter the election outcome significantly. Read more

$200,000 community grant for Friendship Circle

NSW Liberal MP Gabrielle Upton has congratulated The Friendship Circle as the winner of the My Community Project in the Vaucluse electorate. Read more

Senior journalists’ impressions of Israel

Four journalists from around Australia have addressed Melbourne supporters of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) to reflect on their recent participation in AIJAC’s Rambam Israel study program. Read more

The Women’s welcomes $2.4m for new healthcare simulation education program

Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital will be home to a new, in-situ simulation education initiative, following a generous $1.6 million grant from Gandel Philanthropy and an $800,000 grant from the Melbourne Medical School at the University of Melbourne. Read more

Paul Seideman Annual Composition Prize: 2019 winners announced

Three young writers have been honoured for their moving and thoughtful compositions on the Holocaust, in the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand’s annual Paul Seideman Composition Prize for 2019. Read more

Senior Israeli defence official visits Australia, speaks to AIJAC

The head of Israel’s Political-Military Bureau at the Ministry of Defence, Zohar Palti, was recently in Australia. Read more

He survived Bergen-Belsen and the 1972 Munich Olympics and still competes

Prof. Shaul Ladany is both a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in which he was an inmate for six months and of the terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in which he participated as a 50 kilometer race walker. This  week marks the 47th anniversary of the attack. Read more

Trump open to meeting with Iran’s president at upcoming UN General Assembly

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated that he was open to meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this month at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Read more

Sad success

Last month, 19-yr-old Dvir Schnerb was severely wounded close to the Binyamin community of Dolev. His sister Rena was murdered and his father moderately wounded. This week he was released from the hospital and completed his EMT training at Magen David Adom. Read more

Doron Lazarus appointed Moriah Foundation Director

Sydney’s Moriah College Foundation has appointed Doron Lazarus as its new Foundation Director. Read more

UIA-HA partnership will help heal Israel’s Ethiopian community

Only 11% of Ethiopian Jewish students reach university in Israel, compared to 42% of their counterparts in the general population.  This worrying statistic is behind a ground-breaking agreement between the United Israel Appeal (UIA) and Hadassah Australia (HA) that will deliver up to 20, five-year nursing scholarships to this marginalised community. Read more

In remembering 1929 Hebron massacre, top Israeli leaders visit … and make history

We are not strangers in Hebron, and we will stay here forever!” were the climactic remarks made on Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an official state ceremony at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron commemorating the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Jewish massacre. Read more

The first vote cast

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand has cast the first vote of the upcoming elections due to be held on September 17. Read more

A high-level leaders’ course named after Jeremy Spinak

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has launched its inaugural Jeremy Spinak Young Leaders Program. Read more

A community stalwart perishes in Sydney fire

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‘Nobody really knew what happened or what would happen next’: Israeli farmers recall the tense moments during Hezbollah’s attack

The children at Kibbutz Malkiya on the border with Lebanon went to the stable to feed horses on Sunday, on their first day of school, when they were suddenly disturbed by barrages of rockets launched by Hezbollah terrorists from across the border. Read more

MPs join Friendship Walk

NSW State Liberal Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton joined local residents, volunteers, family and friends of Sydney Friendship Circle for the 10^th anniversary annual Walk. Read more

Netanyahu once again vows to annex settlements in Judea and Samaria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday his earlier pledge to annex all the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Read more

Bahraini Foreign Minister backs Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon

Israel received surprising support for its retaliatory strikes in Lebanon after the Hezbollah terror organization attacked IDF targets on Sunday from Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, who said that Lebanon was to blame for the situation. Read more

IDF remains on high alert in north in expectation of another Hezbollah attack

Israel’s security forces along the northern border with Lebanon remain on high alert after the Hezbollah terror organization carried out an attack on IDF targets on Sunday, and in anticipation of another pending attack. Read more

Children of the Cairns Jewish Community give thanks to Australian Defence force

The children of the Cairns Jewish Community have baked and delivered honey cakes as a present for the Jewish New Year to the Cairns-based 51st regiment of the ADF today. Read more

AUJS elects its executive Committee

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) elected its new Executive Committee which will lead the organisation into its 72nd year. Read more

Holocaust Centre of New Zealand’s founding director named as a finalist in the Women of Influence Awards

Holocaust survivor, former refugee, business-woman and community volunteer, Inge Woolf has been named a finalist in the prestigious New Zealand Women of Influence of Awards in the Community Hero category. Read more

The Choice to make a difference

was launched by Taryn and Andrew Boyarsky almost a year ago, as a platform to deliver innovative programs that benefit people in the Sydney Jewish community living with a disability. Read more

New online exhibition from Yad Vashem on the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII

Yad Vashem will mark the 80^th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War by uploading a new exhibition featuring personal stories depicting Jewish family life in Europe in 1939. Read more

Republic of Nauru recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Australia’s neighbour The Republic of Nauru has formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Read more

Warm collaboration

Together with the Jewish Christian Muslim Association (JCMA) and Together for Humanity (TFH), Melbourne’s TheArk Centre collaborated in a genuinely warm and wonderful event at our Centre. Read more

The Government releases a draft Religious Discrimination Bill

The Morrison Government has delivered on its commitment to legislate to prevent discrimination on the basis of religion, releasing a draft Religious Discrimination Bill through Attorney-General Christian Porter at Sydney’s The Great Synagogue. Read more

Emanuel School hosts two innovative conferences for educators

Sydney’s Emanuel School has hosted two educator conferences attended by over 120 teachers from all over NSW. Read more

UN secretary general intends to raise Hadar Goldin issue in sideline meetings

The parents of Israel Defense Forces’ soldier Hadar Goldin, whose remains have been held captive by Hamas since “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014, met on Thursday with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at the world body’s headquarters in New York to press for escalated international efforts in securing their son’s return. Read more

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