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Ryvchin questions timing of protest prayer at Town Hall

J-Wire Newsdesk — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:49:14 +0000

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has suggested that a group of Muslims performing sunset prayers during last week’s chaotic Sydney protest appeared to have carried out an “orchestrated stunt” aimed at inflaming community divisions. In comments to Sky News today, Ryvchin addressed the February 9 incident in which NSW Police dispersed about […]

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

Rob Klein — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:12:58 +0000

In the aftermath of the terrorist shooting at Bondi Beach, online platforms erupted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, according to a new report from the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI). Based on a month of data, the report describes a sharp escalation in hate speech and denial. It is dedicated to the victims of the attack, […]

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

Yoni Brown — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:50:40 +0000

Fresh off the 22-hour flight from Sydney to New York, Ahmed al-Ahmed and Rabbi Yehoram Ulman paused on Tuesday morning to pray together at the Ohel, the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—in Queens. Al-Ahmed came to prominence following the Dec. 14, 2025, terror attack on Chabad-Lubavitch of Bondi’s Chanukah […]

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Commemoration for forgotten Jews from Muslim countries

David Marlow — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:59:38 +0000

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) will host Victoria’s first community-wide commemoration of the Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran on Sunday, 30 November. It was about a decade ago that the JCCV initiated commemorations for the Babi Yar massacre of World War 2, which […]

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Work is just beginning for New York City Jews

Sarah Lehman — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:29:07 +0000

Months’ worth of handwringing ended on Election Day, only to usher in a more vigorous form of it. The fear of a Socialist, Muslim mayor of New York City—one who is loudly anti-Israel—has been realised, bringing with it more fear of what this portends for the most “Jewish” city in the world outside of Israel. […]

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

JNS — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:30:52 +0000

To mark Eid al-Adha (“Feast of the Sacrifice”), a Muslim holiday that marks the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released data about the Muslim population of Israel. At the end of 2023, the Muslim population of Israel was estimated at 1.782 million (18.1% of all residents)—an increase of 35,000 compared […]

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Iranian dissident delegation meets with Israeli Foreign Ministry

David Isaac — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:28:26 +0000

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.”

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

J-Wire Newsdesk — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:31:39 +0000

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.”

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Immigration and common sense: The real facts about Australia

Professor Bill Rubinstein — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:26:32 +0000

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.

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

Agencies — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:37:37 +0000

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.

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