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Bennett and Lapid join together to challenge Netanyahu

Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have announced they will contest the next Knesset election on...

Diaspora Affairs Minister urges New York Jews to move to Israel

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister, Amichai Chikli, expressed alarm over the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York...

Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race, as Jewish leaders say historic civic engagement

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric, won the New York City mayoral race,...

Dutton announces federal crackdown on antisemitism, including visa cancellations

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced a sweeping new policy to combat antisemitic hate crimes in Australia, promising to...

Ballot box blues

If anecdotal feedback and surveys are anything to go by, an increasing number of potential voters are feeling tuned...

Netanyahu dominates Israel’s election

At a dead-end road in a crime-hit town in central Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu stands on a mobile stage enclosed...

Four days to go: ECAJ canvasses political leaders

It has been a practice for a number of years for the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to write to the leaders of the Coalition, the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens ahead of an upcoming federal election seeking their positions on policies and issues of particular interest to the Australian Jewish community.

Haredim and the State: A Possible Turning Point

Isi Leibler contemplates a change of attitude between the Israeli state and the country's ultra-orthodox haredim.

MPs all re-elected

The three Jewish members of Federal Parliament have all been successful in the 2013 election.

Palestine – Rudd, Carr And Labor Sink In Silence…writes David Singer

Australia's Prime Minister - Kevin Rudd and Foreign Minister - Senator Bob Carr - remain hell bent on consigning the Labor Party to Opposition and the political wilderness in this week's elections.

The answers to the questions you wanted to hear

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council has asked both Labor and Liberal questions seeking answers the Jew Jewish community wants to know...

Danby believes Liberals are backing the Greens

Labor Federal MP for Melobourne Ports Michael Danby believes than an alliance is underway between the Liberals and the Greens to oust him from his seat in the forthcoming September 14 election.

Danby announces voting dates

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has announced dates for voting in his electorate for the upcoming General Election to be held on Yom Kippur.

Postal voting ahead

The Australian Federal election date was announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard today. September 14. Yom Kippur.