Anton Block
JBOD president Lesli Berger on stage with other faith leaders at St Mary's Cathedral.
March 21, 2019, 12:00 am
JBOD launches Christchurch crowdfunding campaign
THE New Zealand mosque massacres prompted the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) to launch a crowd-funding campaign in support of the Muslim community in Christchurch.
A piece of art taken from the vigil site where the body of Aiia Maasarwe was found. Photo: AAP Image/James Ross
January 24, 2019, 12:01 am
‘We mourn alongside her family and friends’
AIIA Maasarwe came to Melbourne to study as an exchange student at La Trobe University. But on Monday evening, her father Saeed helped to carry her coffin at the Albanian Islamic centre and mosque in Dandenong.
By Rebecca Davis
Penny Wong addressing the Labor Party National Conference on Tuesday. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
December 20, 2018, 6:49 pm
Lines drawn in the sand
SEVENTY years of Australian bipartisan agreement on Israel are over. On Tuesday, four days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia now recognises West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Australian Labor Party – which says it will reverse that recognition in government – passed a resolution to recognise Palestine as a state.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaking at the Sydney Institute last Saturday. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
December 20, 2018, 6:45 pm
Mixed reaction to Prime Minister’s announcement
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has called Labor's pledge to reverse the Morrison government's recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital "hasty and ill-advised".
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin
December 16, 2018, 11:11 am
‘West Jerusalem is the capital of Israel’
In a rare moment of unity Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Cheryl Edwards, who led the advisory group for the apology, came together to apologise to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. Photo: AAP Image
October 25, 2018, 12:01 am
The national apology
Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised to all victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse,
By AJN STAFF
Kerryn Phelps. Photo: AAP Image/Chris Pavlich
October 25, 2018, 12:01 am
Phelps wins Wentworth
KERRYN Phelps has made history, becoming the first Jewish female in Australia's federal parliament after beating the Liberal Party's Dave Sharma in a close Wentworth by-election.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin
October 18, 2018, 12:01 am
PM considering embassy move
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has denied that an announcement to look at moving Australia's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is motivated by Jewish votes in this weekend's Wentworth by-election.
By Gareth Narunsky
Palestinian students outside a UNRWA school in Beirut. Photo: EPA/Nabil Mounzer
September 6, 2018, 12:01 am
Palestinian aid shake-up ‘welcome’
AUSTRALIAN Jewish community leaders have praised a move by the US to cut the entire American aid budget to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid to the Palestinians.
By Peter Kohn
Julie Bishop speaking at Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne last year. Photo: Ren Rizzolo
September 4, 2018, 9:35 am
‘Israel support to continue’
AUSTRALIA'S new Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne will continue to support the State of Israel, according to Liberal deputy leader Josh Frydenberg.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 24, 2018, 1:41 pm
Scott Morrison elected PM, Frydenberg deputy Liberal leader
Ismail al-Wahwah, Arabic media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia, looks on during a press conference in Sydney on Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012. A Muslim Convention is to be held this Sunday in Sydney about the future of the Muslim World post-the Arab uprisings. Photo: AAP Image/Paul Miller
August 3, 2018, 9:54 am
Sheikh detained in Jordan
HIZB ut-Tahrir Australia spiritual leader Ismail al-Wahwah, who in 2015 called on people to "rid" the world of the Jewish "hidden evil" and declared "the ember of jihad against the Jews will continue to burn", has been arrested in Jordan.
By Gareth Narunsky
Lauren Southern.
August 2, 2018, 12:01 am
‘Tawdry and juvenile’
AUSTRALIAN Jewish Association (AJA) president David Adler has sought to defend the group's invitation to far-right Canadian personality Lauren Southern to take a walking tour of Bondi or Caulfield.
By Gareth Narunsky
The flyer for the event.
June 28, 2018, 12:15 pm
Abuse victims ‘distressed’ by event
THE Yeshivah Centre has come under fire for holding a 10th yahrzeit commemoration for Melbourne Yeshivah director Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner which ignored any reference to the coverups of child sexual abuse he was reportedly involved in at the organisation.
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June 27, 2018, 10:47 am
National Redress Scheme welcomed
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed the July 1 start date for the $3.8 billion National Redress Scheme for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse – approved by the Senate last week – while commending Jewish Care Victoria “for its decisive leadership” in becoming the first Australian Jewish organisation to officially sign up to it.
By Shane Desiatnik and Peter Kohn
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