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When fear takes hold, how do communities keep talking?

Earlier this year, Rabbi Zalman Kastel had a personal encounter with some people that seemed to him to be...

When fear takes hold, how do communities keep talking?

Earlier this year, Rabbi Zalman Kastel had a personal encounter with some people that seemed to him to be...

Ryvchin questions timing of protest prayer at Town Hall

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has suggested that a group of Muslims performing sunset prayers during...

Bondi Beach massacre sparks online hate storm, report warns of normalised antisemitism

In the aftermath of the terrorist shooting at Bondi Beach, online platforms erupted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, according to...

Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed and Sydney rabbi visit Rebbe’s resting place

Fresh off the 22-hour flight from Sydney to New York, Ahmed al-Ahmed and Rabbi Yehoram Ulman paused on Tuesday...

Commemoration for forgotten Jews from Muslim countries

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) will host Victoria’s first community-wide commemoration of the Day to Mark the...

Work is just beginning for New York City Jews

Months’ worth of handwringing ended on Election Day, only to usher in a more vigorous form of it. The fear...

Muslims in Israel: Statistics bureau releases latest data on eve of Hajj

To mark Eid al-Adha (“Feast of the Sacrifice”), a Muslim holiday that marks the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca,...

Iranian dissident delegation meets with Israeli Foreign Ministry

The mission was organized by the Institute for Voices of Liberty, a U.S.-based nonprofit that seeks to “counter the false narratives propagated by the Islamic Republic and its apologists,” and to act as a voice for the “freedom-seeking people of Iran.”

Muslim World League’s General Secretary honoured for fighting antisemitism, calls for unity against hatred

Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, General Secretary of World Muslim League, former-Justice Minister of Saudi Arabia; “True Islam deems any attempt to deny or underplay the brutal horrors of the Holocaust as the ultimate insult”; “Alongside the hardship caused by the coronavirus, we also must... fight against those who seek to spread hatred and intolerance.”

Immigration and common sense: The real facts about Australia

In common with the majority of people, I never heard of Senator Fraser Anning before he made his controversial speech on immigration...writes Bill Rubinstein.

Kosher grocery store near Paris destroyed by fire on terror attack anniversary

A kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb was destroyed in an arson attack on the third anniversary of the deadly Islamic terror attack on the French capital’s Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket.

Meeting and eating

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) and the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) have celebrated Harmony Day by co-hosting a Jewish – Muslim Friendship Dinner.

Truce does not equal peace…writes Michael Kuttner

One of the problems we face these days is the inability to recognize reality even when it smacks us in the face.

Holy Switch!

Two young women, one a traditional Muslim, the other from an observant reform Jewish background, have “traded places” for the ABC documentary series “Holy Switch”, and share glowing reports of the experience.

Working with Muslims a laughing matter? Maybe….

An Australian Jewish community will hold a comedy debate with its Muslim counterpart.