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Monday Morning Cooking Club is back with a book for the next generation

The Monday Morning Cooking Club did not set out to build a publishing brand. It set out to save...

Idan Raichel hit song performed by 900 Emanuel voices

Sydney's Emanuel School has produced a special rendition of Idan Raichel’s hit song – Shevet Achim Ve’achayot, a Tribe...

Chag Sameach from Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sends a Pesach message to the Australian Jewish community. Chag Pesach Sameach. The traditions and rituals of...

Law passed allowing hospitals to ban leavened bread during Passover

Knesset lawmakers passed into law legislation allowing Israeli hospitals to prevent leavened bread from being brought in during Passover. Jewish...

Where did the accusation that Jews used Christian blood to make wine originate?

Ask the rabbi. BLOOD ACCUSATION Despite the increase in antisemitism, most Jews will sit down peacefully for Seder. Hardly anyone knows...

Protests increase as Netanyahu sacks defence minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sacked Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests a day after Gallant broke...

Israel arrests suspects in West Bank settler rampage

Police have arrested six suspects over a settler rampage in the occupied West Bank that an Israeli general described...

Beverly Hills residents wake up to antisemitic flyers on first day of Passover

Antisemitic flyers blaming Russia’s nearly two-month-long war in Ukraine on Jews were left in front of homes in Beverly...

Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest...

Real freedom

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison sends his Passover message

As the sun sets at Passover, Jewish families in Australia and around the globe will come together to find...

Israel’s biggest matzah

Ahead of the Passover, President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal welcomed representatives of the factory that produced the...

How Jews in Ukraine will celebrate Passover

They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues and military bases. But come what may, when night...

Shabbat Metzora and Shabbat HaGadol: A Special Shabbat

The Shabbat before Pesach is called Shabbat HaGadol, the greatest or very important Shabbat. According to tradition, the Children of...

Amid tensions, Defence Minister Gantz talks with PA head Abbas

Defence Minister Benny Gantz spoke Tuesday evening with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, as security tensions are high...

Gaza source: ‘Deterioration in Jerusalem’ will force Hamas to attack

“Hamas is not interested in opening a front against Israel,” but a deterioration in Jerusalem will force it to...

This global health crisis and Passover

A special message from Prime Minister Scott Morrison for an out of the ordinary Passover.

Passover: We have reason to rejoice…writes Isi Leibler

Tomorrow, most Israelis, secular as well as observant, will celebrate Passover, the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from Egypt and how we became a nation.

This year in a rebuilt and expanded Jerusalem…writes Michael Kuttner

Winter is over and spring has sprung. Passover preparations are in full swing, the blossoms are blooming and Israel prepares to welcome an influx of pilgrims and tourists from all over the world.

A Holocaust Pesach diary

Yad Vashem has published excerpts from a Melbourne woman's diary chronicling her time in the Gabersdorf Labor Camp in the hope they can learn more about the women incarcerated there.