SBS apologises for “sloppy and biased” reporting

SBS has apologised for a report on a recent attack in Jerusalem which stated that an “attacker was shot dead after stabbing a border police officer” which failed to report that the young policewoman victim died of her injuries. Read more

Israel’s VENµS Satellite to be launched into space next week

VENµS – Israel’s first environmental research satellite – will be launched into space on August 2 on the “Vega” launcher from French Guiana. Read more

Kehillat Kadima takes over from South Head

A brand new congregation has been granted a six-month lease to the building which housed the South Head Synagogue which is in liquidation. Read more

UIA says thanks

UIA hosted its annual Volunteer’s Thank You Dinner for over 100 people in Melbourne. Read more

Peta Credlin and James Morrow talk about Israel

Sky News Political Contributor Peta Credlin and Daily Telegraph Opinion Editor James Morrow have addressed a luncheon hosted by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) in Sydney following their return from an AIJAC Rambam study mission to Israel. Read more

President Rivlin pays a condolence visit to the Salomon family

President Reuven Rivlin this afternoon (Wednesday), paid a condolence visit in Elad, at the home of Elad Salomon, who was murdered together with his father Yossi, and sister Chaya in a terror attack on Friday night in Halamish. Read more

Melbourne letter writing for Cairns Siyum Sefer Torah

Members of the Melbourne community has come together to help celebrate the first ever Sefer Torah to service the Jewish community in North Queensland. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel call for no change in Labor’s policy to Israel

Indigenous Friends of Israel spokesperson Munganbana Norman Miller again today urged the NSW and Federal Labor Party not to change its policy towards Israel. Read more

Magen David Adom focuses on one thing and one thing alone…saving lives.

Jewish tour-guide and educator for StandWithUs Kay Wilson and a friend were viciously attacked by terrorists, while hiking near Jerusalem. She will be the guest speaker at Magen David Adom annual campaign dinner in Sydney. Read more

EU court keeps Hamas on terror list

The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the European Court of Justice’s decision to uphold the European Union’s listing of Hamas as a terrorist organisation  and called on the EU do to everything in its power to prevent European entities from engaging in business or showing any other form of support with it.  Read more

Hebrew University dinner in Sydney

The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University (NSW Division) has co-hosted a dinner with the Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund at the InterContinental Hotel Double Bay. Read more

Sydney mother to swim the English Channel to raise support for families struggling with perinatal anxiety

A Sydney doctor is preparing to swim the English Channel next month to raise funds for  PANDA – Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia. Read more

Mother of Halamish terrorist arrested on incitement charges

Israeli soldiers arrested the mother of Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed Tuesday on charges of “aggravated incitement,” following her son’s fatal stabbing of an Israeli father and two of his adult children last Friday night in the Samaria community of Halamish. Read more

Meta-analysis finds that among men from North America, Europe and Australia, sperm concentration has declined more than 50% in less than 40 years

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report a significant decline in sperm concentration and total sperm count among men from Western countries.  Read more

President Rivlin meets with passengers of the Exodus

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has met with 12 passengers who travelled on the Exodus, marking seven decades since the ship’s iconic voyage to the Land of Israel. Read more

Sydneysider ordained as Australia’s first Hebrew Priestess

The Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute has given smicha  [ordination] to its fifth cohort comprised of thirteen women including one from Australia at a ceremony at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut. Read more

Israeli leaders react to the Salomon murders

At  Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, at the state memorial ceremony for Ze’ev Jabotinsky Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Rivlin spoke of the murders of three members of the Salomon family on Friday. Read more

The joy of Shabbat – the sadness of bereavement

It was a perfect Shabbat, with many guests, delicious food. The end of Shabbat was approaching and, together with my son and our guests, we make our way to the house of my friend Gadi Whitman for evening prayers. In my heart, I wish that Shabbat would not end… When the evening prayers were over, we sit around the table together to recite the prayer “Vayiten lecha”…writes ZAKA volunteer Moti Bukchin. Read more

Answering a door to a killer

Expecting a visitor for Shabbat dinner, Yosef Salamon is reported to have opened his front door to the terrorist who murdered Salamon and his son and daughter. Read more

Three murdered at Shabbat dinner

The World Jewish Congress harshly condemned the terrorist attack on Friday night in the settlement of Halamish, in which a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated a home during Shabbat dinner and brutally murdered three Israelis. Read more

Today in liquidation but hope for South Head’s future

Sydney’s South Head Synagogue is now in liquidation and its members will have to wait until the next episode is played out in this real-life community drama. Read more

Pyjama Day for children in foster care

The Pyjama Foundation, an organisation that provides support for children in foster care has held a national pyjama day at Sydney’s Jewish House. Read more

Victorian minister in water talks

Jaala Pulford, Victoria’s Minister for Agriculture and Regional Development, has visited the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot. Read more

Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara have visited the Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial in Budapest dedicated to Jews who were shot during the Holocaust and thrown into the river. Read more

World Vision Australia responds to a claim it supports the PFLP was found without foundation in 2012

Hot on the heels of the exposure of World Vision’s head of Gaza operations as a Hamas agent (who diverted the millions of charitable funds to the terror group) comes another multi-million dollar terrorist fraud involving World Vision reports the Jerusalem-based International Legal Forum. Read more

Rabbi Milecki’s contributions to South Head

Rabbi Benzion Milecki has written to members of the South Head Synagogue denying he is one of the ongoing expenses the shule will have to meet if it is taken out of administration. Read more

Muslims riots continue in Jerusalem

Clashes erupted between Muslim rioters and Israeli police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday for the fourth consecutive day. Read more

Israeli teenager shares life saving research with Emanuel School students

Israeli teenager, Sarit Sternberg, visited Emanuel School to speak to the Year 11 students about her breakthrough scientific research whilst participating in the Alpha Program for Gifted Students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read more

Former Mossad Chief and US Ambassador to Israel in Australia for JNF Campaign

The former Director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo will be in Australia this September for JNF Australia’s Annual Campaign joined by the former US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro. Read more

South Head members invited to help avoid liquidation

James Hochroth, Curtis Mann and Rodney Naumburger have emailed members of South Head Synagogue giving them an opportunity to pledge funds to avoid the synagogue being placed in liquidation on Friday or deferring the process. Read more

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