Crackdown on Internet antisemitism

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has welcomed a “long-overdue and praiseworthy” series of initiatives launched recently by internet and social media giants, including Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google and YouTube, to crack down on antisemitism, terrorism, and incitement online. Read more

Netanyahu – Israel and Arabs forging new ties

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Rabbi resigns

Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz, Rabbi of Melburne’s Chabad Malvern  has resigned his membership of the Orthodox Rabbinic bodies in Australia. Read more

Jews against 18C

A submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has been presented two members of the Australian Jewish community asking for the repeal of the 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Campaign against Facebook misses its mark

An Israel-based civil rights organisation launched its first-ever online campaign in the U.S. today to build public support for a pair of major lawsuits against Facebook, with a provocative video levelling unprecedented charges that the social media giant is inciting terrorism around the world…but an Australian expert says the campaign missing its mark. Read more

Wellington celebrates its first sefer torah

The Wellington orthodox Jewish community in New Zealand has celebrated the dedication of the first sefer Torah to be written specifically for the congregation in its 173-year history. Read more

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin addresses a summit of publishers and writers of Jewish world-wide media outlets

President Rivlin welcomed the participants to Israel and noted that the media, and Jewish communities were faced by many challenges, and thanked them for their dedication to the community and to the press. Read more

UN president slammed for wearing a Palestinian scarf

Israel’s Ambassador to United Nation has spoken out against UN General Assembly president Peter Thomson wearing a Palestinian scarf whilst addressing a session. Read more

Permanent Holocaust exhibition in Canberra

The Australian War Memorial has launched a new permanent exhibition “The Holocaust: witnesses and survivors”. Read more

New faces at Maccabi Australia

Maccabi Australia has marked several changes to the Maccabi Australia board, the most significant of which was the addition of three new board members in Julian Dunne, Daniel Parasol and Dean Rzechta. Read more

Community welcomes the Royal Commission report

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has commended the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for its report into the response of Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne to allegations of child sexual abuse made against people associated with those institutions. Read more

NCJWA ‘Celebrating Israel’ Annual Event

The 12^th Anniversary of the annual National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NJCWA) ‘Celebrating Israel’ event commemorated the establishment of Israel through a series of cultural depictions. Read more

Gassing sheep

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission has accepted Senator Culleton’s clarification that in his comments— “This will show that the ANZ bank came in and misled the farmers. In actual fact, said, ‘Come take a shower’, and gassed them.”—  he did not mean to refer to the Holocaust but to a mass gassing of sheep that took place in Australia in the 1990s. Read more

Rescuers: Honouring the Righteous Among Nations

Next week, the Sydney Jewish Museum will launch I Am My Brother’s Keeper Honouring the Righteous Among the Nations.  Read more

Australian Jewish Historical Society gets a facelift

Former JCA president Peter Philippsohn has taken the reins of the Sydney-based AJHS [Inc] with plans to streamline NSW’s Jewish archives. Read more

Hanson/Roberts meeting called off

Senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts have today confirmed that due to security reasons they will cancel their visit to Melbourne to listen to the concerns of the local Jewish community. Read more

The JCCV issues Child Safe Policy

The Jewish Community Council of  Victoria (JCCV) welcomes the report published yesterday by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse focusing on the responses of Yeshivah Melbourne and Yeshiva Bondi.  The findings in the report are no great surprise but nevertheless are highly disturbing and distressing.
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Royal Commission – the rabbis call on named to stand down

The Executive of the Rabbinical Council of Australia and New Zealand (RCANZ), The Rabbinical Council of New South Wales (RCNSW) and the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) have expressed their  deep distress by the contents of the report by the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse at Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne. Read more

JNF starts the rehabilitation of the fire-ravaged forests

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has begun the rehabilitation process of forests and open areas that were damaged in the current wave of fires. Read more

Palestinian Fatah party unanimously re-elects Mahmoud Abbas as leader

The Palestinian Fatah political party unanimously re-elected Mahmoud Abbas as the head of the party at the opening of its first leadership congress in more than seven years. Read more

ZFA Conference in Melbourne

The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) will host its 2016 Biennial Conference in Melbourne on the 4^th December at Beth Weizmann Centre. Read more

Israel’s raging fires come under control after massive international response

Improving weather conditions, a massive influx of support from the international community and efforts by Israeli first responders have enabled the Jewish state to get an outburst of raging wildfires under control. Read more

Leeser encourages all communities to play a part in the 18C inquiry

Following a plea to delegates at The Executive Council of Australian Jewry annual conference Julian Leeser MP federal Member for Berowra has encouraged all community groups to take an active part in the current Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into freedom of speech and the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Chanukah in Parliament

Labor MP Michael Danby has addressed a gathering of Federal politicians celebrating the lighting of a menorah at the country’s seat of government. Read more

The Hon Justice James Edelman: appointed to the High Court of Australia

Perth-born judge James Edelman has been appointed to the High Court of Sydney…a position he will take up in January 2017 at the age of 43. Read more

The Royal Commission releases its report on the Yeshiva and Yeshivah

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has said that some members of the community had been “discouraged from reporting”. Read more

ECAJ: Goot passes the baton

Former The Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Robert Goot has handed the leadership over to Anton Block…following the organisation’s policy of alternating Sydney and Melbourne as the home city of president. Read more

Community groups urge MPs not to weaken laws against race hate

A delegation of leaders representing the Indigenous, Greek, Arab, Chinese, Jewish, and Indian communities has held a round of meetings with key MPs in Federal parliament to discuss the current Inquiry into freedom of speech. Read more

Fraudsters raising funds in Australia for the firefighting efforts in Israel

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Fires: JNF report 2750 acres destroyed

Fires spreading since last week have destroyed an estimate of 11,000 Dunams (about 2,750 Acres, with four Dunams = 1 Acre) of natural forests and rural areas around Israel, with 58 occurrences in KKL-JNF areas. Read more

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