The forgotten exodus: Sydney honours 850,000 Jews who fled Arab lands and Iran

More than 200 people gathered at the National Council of Jewish Women hall in Woollahra on Sunday evening for the annual commemoration honouring Jewish refugees from Arab lands and Iran. Read more

Between two blades: Global squeeze on world Jewry

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the global Jewish Diaspora is facing an unsettling squeeze, one that is closing in from both ideological extremes. Read more

Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

The threat posed by Zohan Mamdani

By publicly and forcefully denouncing Zohran Mamdani as “a danger to the security of New York’s Jewish community,” Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue has demonstrated yet again why he is one of the most important and most influential Jewish leaders on the American scene. Read more

A credit to the community

Shadow Attorney General Julian Leeser and Labor MP Josh Burns have jointly won the coveted McKinnon Prize for 2024,  McKinnon Political Leader of the year – federal. Read more

Sir Thomas More

I was always interested in history. Having been brought up in England, I have a particular interest in its history. Read more

Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The whole equation

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Jews know who we are — it’s time others did too

Antisemitism in Australia has reached a point where the government is finally — and seemingly — doing something about it, declaring that something must change. Read more

United Nations readies to increase Jew-hatred worldwide

A scheduled United Nations high-level conference to take place on June 17-20, 2025, in New York will be the trigger point for increased demonstrations against Jews and Israel worldwide. Read more

A long journey home

It has taken more than two thousand years for Jews exiled by the Romans to finally return to their promised homeland and reclaim sovereignty. Read more

‘The Palestinian cause was liquidated on October 7th’ says Syrian activist in Jerusalem

Rawan Osman has come a long way from Lebanon, where she grew up hating Jews, to arriving in Jerusalem to speak at an event Friends of Zion Museum  on Sunday night. Read more

No overhaul of hate crime laws after nine-month review

A review sparked by calls to criminalise inflammatory Islamic sermons has found several unintended consequences could flow from expanding incitement laws. Read more

Daniel Deronda: George Eliot and the Jews.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England. In 1656, Cromwell failed to persuade Parliament to welcome Jews back officially. Read more

Fewer Jews in the world today than on eve of the Holocaust

Almost half of all of the Jews in the world live in Israel and the current world Jewish population is still lower than it was on the eve of the Holocaust in 1939. Read more

LA film museum that first ignored Jews will hold exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish founders

When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in Los Angeles in September 2021, it drew criticism for failing to feature Jews, who have played essential roles in developing the film industry in Hollywood. Read more

Police to ban Jews from Temple Mount during final days of Ramadan

Jews will be banned from the Temple Mount during the final days of Ramadan, the Israeli Police told activists on Wednesday. Read more

JCCV suspends relations with Muslim counterpart

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has announced that it has suspended relations with the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV), as a result of malicious public statements made by the ICV President Adel Salman and Vice President Mohamed Mohideen. Read more

Here we go again

Anti-Judaism was always driven by two agents, religion and politics. Read more

Jewish, Muslim women denounce world silence on Hamas’s sexual attacks

A Jewish beauty queen from Israel and a Muslim doctor from Britain denounced Hamas’s sexual violence and the silence of feminist groups at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read more

Open letter about Oscars calls out diversity initiative exclusion of Jews

New rules by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—known for presenting the annual Oscar awards in Hollywood, Calif.—go into effect this year to qualify for the Best Picture category. Read more

South African Jews—a community under threat? 

Jews have been an integral part of the fabric of society in South Africa since the seventeenth century when some arrived with the early Dutch settlers…writes Rolene Marks. Read more

South Africa threatens to prosecute citizens fighting for IDF

The South African government has threatened to prosecute citizens fighting for the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to a Monday report by Agence France Presse. Read more

Jews and Muslims should feel safe: Jewish MPs

Australian Jews and Muslims should not be used as “political footballs” and their communities should feel safe and supported, Jewish MPs from Labor and the Liberal Party say. Read more

PM accuses Dutton of weaponising antisemitism

Anthony Albanese has accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of seeking to weaponise antisemitism, urging greater social cohesion as the Israel-Gaza conflict continues. Read more

Antisemitic conspiracy theory mars debate about the Voice

Conspiracy theories about ‘the Jews’ are ancient, pervasive and often genocidal in what they advocate. Read more

Today’s French Revolution

In July 1789, the Paris Bastille was stormed by rampaging mobs, and the established order of autocratic rule was swiftly swept away. Read more

West seeks Russia ‘Final Solution’: Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States has assembled a coalition of European countries to solve “the Russian question” in the same way that Adolf Hitler had sought a “final solution” to eradicate Europe’s Jews. Read more

Hiberno-Yiddish –  The language of Irish Jews 

Hiberno-Yiddish or Irish-Yiddish is the historical dialect spoken by Irish Jews. Read more

A pogrom against Maori politician

The New Zealand Jewish Council is dismayed by the president of the Māori Party John Tamihere’s reported comments that “This is a pogrom” in relation to an NZ Herald investigation into the use of funds by charities associated with him. Read more

Austen Tayshus talks about his favourite audience – The Jews

Austen Tayshus: Skin in the Game, a documentary about Sandy Gutman and his alter ego Austen Tayshus premieres on Sunday on Foxtel. Read more

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