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JTA – President Donald Trump repeated his claims that the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan is imminent ahead of a highly anticipated meeting with Israeli Prime...
In a groundbreaking archaeological excavation beneath the Western Wall Plaza, a rock-hewn mikveh (a ritual purification bath) was uncovered in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority...
Little more than two weeks after the terrorist attack on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the Australian Jewish community moves into the new year with heightened security, unresolved grief, and a growing insistence on government accountability. There...
Democracy has reconfigured the human condition. For generations, political power was concentrated in the hands of a monarch and a narrow aristocracy that controlled national life. Absolute...
JTA – The self-appointed chief rabbi of Saudi Arabia, Rabbi Jacob Herzog, said he had been denied entry to the Gulf nation. “With profound regret, I...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that President Donald Trump will receive the Israel Prize in 2026, marking the first time the...
JTA – Israel became the first country to formally recognise Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, in a decision that was immediately condemned by...
Christmas Day is a deeply significant occasion for many Christians, traditionally spent with families, in churches, and within cherished communities, where the giving of gifts serves...
JTA – Top conservative influencers Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have significantly ramped-up anti-Israel rhetoric on their platforms over the past year, according to a new...
JTA – Jews around the world were already reeling after nearly two years of war and death in Gaza and the grim confirmation that many hostages hadn’t survived the 7 October 2023 attacks...
JTA – Jewish actress Odessa A’zion appeared to push back this week on social media claims labelling her as a “Zionist”, after controversy swirled online over her political opinions. The speculation...
A troubling pattern has emerged in South African public discourse around Israel: the problem is no longer disagreement over facts or policy, but a growing insistence that South...
“As mayor of Cape Town, and on behalf of our city, I want to say clearly that antisemitism has no place here.” These are the words of...
JTA – The two gunmen who opened fire on a Chanukah celebration in Sydney, Australia last week, killing 15, recorded a manifesto video prior to the attack in...
There is a good reason why anti-Zionism feels so righteous to those who preach it, and feels so viscerally familiar to Jews forced to face it. Anti-Zionism (which can be...
JTA – The youngest victim of the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre is known by just one name, but it’s all that’s needed to make her a...
JTA – Three Toronto men were arrested by Canadian police on Friday for allegedly attempting kidnappings targeting Jews and women. Waleed Khan, 26, Osman Azizov, 18,...
JTA – The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of the Bay Area is calling for the resignation of a local mayor who reposted conspiracy theories to his LinkedIn account that...
JTA – At a virtual Holocaust survivor event on Thursday, beloved Jewish film director Rob Reiner gave a pre-recorded address where he urged those watching to...
JTA – The activist group StopAntisemitism has awarded the conservative personality Tucker Carlson its ignominious honour of “Antisemite of the Year”, citing his frequent invocation of classic antisemitic stereotypes. ...
The latest graduates of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) Johannesburg Sewing Empowerment School showed off their creations in the “Afrocentric Wedding Vibes” showcase on 11...
When King David Linksfield Dux of 2023, Ricci Waksman, and her Brown University lab group met late last Saturday, 13 December, they chose to meet on the second floor of the Barus...
As the dust begins to settle after the deadly Bondi Beach terrorist attack on Sunday, 14 December that shattered a community Chanukah celebration, Jews in Australia are trying to absorb the horror of what...
A deep sadness enveloped the communal Chanukah candle lighting on Monday evening, 15 December, in Glenhazel, little more than 24 hours after the deadly terrorist attack at a similar...
Leaders from a wide range of faith communities marked Chanukah and Christmas at the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on 15 December. These included representatives from Jewish, Christian,...
More than 40 years after philanthropist powerhouse Wendy Fisher began studying for her doctorate of psychology at Yeshiva University, she was honoured with an honorary Doctorate...
We comforted ourselves with the fantasy that if antisemitism ever surged, it would show up slowly on the radar, giving us time to sip our tea...
JTA – We tend to think of human behaviour as deeply shaped by group lines. Again and again, research in social psychology and social neuroscience, along...
JTA – A crowdfunding campaign to support Ahmed al Ahmed, the Muslim fruit seller shot after disarming one of the men who was attacking a Chanukah...
JTA – The father-and-son duo who killed 15 people during an attack on a Chanukah celebration in Sydney on Sunday were motivated by “Islamic State ideology”,...
JTA – An elderly Jewish man sought to stop the Bondi Beach Chanukah attackers and was their first victim, according to dramatic dashcam footage that emerged...
Police in London and Manchester, England, say they will now arrest pro-Palestinian protesters who chant the phrase “globalise the intifada,” in a policy change responding to...
JTA – Federal authorities have arrested four people in connection to an alleged plot to bomb locations across Southern California on New Year’s Eve. The four...
When the gunfire began at the Chanukah community event on Bondi Beach earlier today, 14 December, South African emigrant to Australia Wayne Miller’s instinct was immediate. He dived on top of his five-year-old...
JTA – Arsen Ostrovsky moved back to Australia from Israel two weeks ago to helm the Sydney office of AIJAC, the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. ...
JTA – Viral video circulating after the Bondi Beach Chanukah attack showed an unarmed man racing toward one of the shooters and tackling him from behind...
President Isaac Herzog spoke to David Ossip, president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, and Rabbi Levi Wolff, the rabbi of the Central Synagogue in...
“Our hearts are bleeding in pain for every member of the Jewish community killed in Sydney and to the extended Sydney Jewish community. “Just as you...
The SA Jewish Board of Deputies expresses its deep solidarity with the Australian Jewish community following the horrific terror attack in Sydney during a Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony. ...
Message from Rabbi Yossy Goldman What a start to our Chanukah celebrations! We are all absolutely devastated at the terrible terror attack on Sydney’s Jewish community who...
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