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JTA – The organisers of an Australian literary festival pulled the plug on this year’s event on Tuesday, 13 January, after nearly 200 authors said they...
JTA – An Australian writers’ festival is facing backlash after it announced that it had removed an Australian-Palestinian author from its lineup over concerns that her...
JTA – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Thursday, 9 January the launch of a Royal Commission inquiry, the country’s highest level of inquiry, into...
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...
The Chabad Lubavitch Foundation of Southern Africa expresses profound shock and sorrow at the murderous attack on Jews gathered for a Chanukah celebration in Bondi Beach,...
The CSO is aware of the attack that took place in Sydney earlier today. Our thoughts are with those killed and injured and their families. We...
A Jewish community gathering in Sydney to celebrate Chanukah was violently targeted in a vicious terrorist attack. Families, children, and community members came together to mark a...
South African Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation “The Government of the Republic of South Africa extends its deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathy to the people...
Matthew Gruter, a South African civil engineer, was identified participating in a vehemently antisemitic neo-Nazi rally outside the New South Wales Parliament in Sydney on 9...
Just as Jewish Australians dared to hope that the unprecedented epidemic of antisemitism which has rocked their country since 7 October 2023 might dissipate, neo-Nazis were...
South African-born author Joanne Fedler contributed to Ruptured, a book in which 36 Jewish women in Australia reflect on life post 7 October 2023. The SA...
I was in Bondi – Sydney’s famous beachside suburb – waiting to drive into a parking-lot. A car was blocking the entrance. It was stationary, and...
JTA – Less than two weeks ago, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his country’s recognition of a Palestinian state was a matter of “when, not...
A shul door is set alight as 20 community members sit eating Shabbat dinner inside. Just minutes later, Miznon, a partially Israeli-owned restaurant is stormed by...
French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was best known for his epic documentary Shoah, a viscerally confronting nine-hour magnum opus in which he interviewed Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and...
JTA – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Melbourne, Australia, chanted, “Death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]!” at a rally last Sunday, 6 July, two days after a...
In decades on the frontline of advocacy work in Australia, including 17 years at the helm of the New South Wales (NSW) Jewish Board of Deputies,...
For the first time in the history of Australian Jewry, antisemitism and Israel are significant issues in an Australian election. Australia will go to the polls...
More than 30 years ago, my wife and I left South Africa with our first-born son to escape the cruel injustice and racism of apartheid. We...
Australian Jewry is facing a “tsunami of antisemitism”, according to South African expat and former chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies...
South African Jews who chose to make their home in Australia often went looking for safety and sanctuary, and many found it in the “the lucky...
Jewish South African expat Dr Carly Levetan and her family visit the massive Westfield Bondi Junction mall in Sydney every Saturday for her son’s weekly jujitsu...
JTA – Australian police are investigating threats against a five-year-old Jewish child amid an uproar over the publication online of a list of hundreds of Jewish...
The family and friends of an Australian father are appealing to Jewish people of Ashkenazi descent around the world to donate blood stem cells in a...
South African-born Peter Michaelson (57) was an acclaimed master swimmer and got much joy from swimming in the ocean. However, it was in the water off...
South African-born Rabbi Ralph Genende recently launched his book, Living in an Upside Down World, which is a combination of columns he has written. We speak...
About seven weeks ago, South African-born Mark Blankfield was walking to the doctor in Melbourne, when his phone rang. “Hi Mark, I’m Fiona from the governor’s...
To be named on the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours list with one of Australia’s highest civilian honours was a wonderful surprise for South African-born social entrepreneur...
News that the last kosher butchery in Sydney, Australia, has closed, came as a shock. Not because I will miss its lamb ribs, but because I...
Whenever King David High School Linksfield (KDL) alumnus David Shein sits at a table, he always looks around and says to himself, “I’ve got to have...
(JTA) Video from a packed engagement party is roiling the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia, amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 that has extended yet another...
Professor Karen Zwi may have left South Africa more than 20 years ago, but she has carried the ethics and ideals that she grew up with...
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