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Moriah College. Photo: Nadine Saacks
December 6, 2018, 11:29 am
A Jew is a Jew?
Marise Payne addressing the UN General Assembly. Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
October 11, 2018, 12:01 am
Payne’s painful silence on the Iranian threat
MARISE Payne is the new Foreign Minister of Australia; she will be an even blander version of Julie Bishop. Her first speech to the United Nations was an extremely cautious restatement of the Coalition's foreign policy in her first international platform. As The Australian newspaper editorialised, she lost an opportunity to give real meaning "to Australia's stance on global issues". 
Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger addressing thousands of British Jews protesting against Corbyn and her party earlier this year. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire
October 4, 2018, 12:01 am
The antisemite leading the British Labour Party
THE list goes on and on. The list of incidents involving Jeremy Corbyn that have aggrieved the British Jewish community.
The bomb shelter with the Arik Einstein lyrics at Kibbutz Erez.
September 27, 2018, 12:01 am
Living on the border in the shadow of terror
"One thing is for sure, as long as that bomb shelter still has a purpose, that change we want to see in the world will sadly never come." Emily Gian shares her experience of visiting a bomb shelter on Kibbutz Erez, situated very close to the Gaza border.
The suitcases of Auschwitz interns on display at the camp.
September 27, 2018, 12:01 am
Living lives in honour of those who perished
WENT to Auschwitz today. When I told friends my plans I pondered the words I used. I couldn't say I was visiting Auschwitz, as you would a famous landmark and I certainly wasn't going to experience Auschwitz. 
Mark Sofer. Photo: Peter Haskin
September 13, 2018, 12:01 am
Looking back on a topsy-turvy year
IN so many ways, 5778, Israel's 70th anniversary year, has been a cocktail of both negative and positive. It has been a ­topsy-turvy year for us in the international arena, a year of turmoil in the Middle East and a year of mixed relations with our closest neighbours. And yet when we examine the issues closely, we can look to the future with a cautious, yet palpable sense of hope and optimism that the positive will outweigh the negative and the future seems bright.
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September 13, 2018, 12:01 am
Like Mary, we can give the greatest gift of all
IT'S the greatest gift, it's in every breath you take, in each moment you wake – it's the gift of life. In these days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we are especially attuned to the preciousness of this present; the fabulous bestowal of this trembling heart, this wondrous, fragile cargo called life. Our prayers are saturated with a longing for life: "Remember us for life", "Who will live, who will die?", the bracha to the one who has "given us life, sustained us and brought us to this time" (Shehecheyanu).
Premier Gladys Berejiklian presented Jeremy Spinak with a special commendation at the JBOD AGM in August. Photo: Giselle Haber
August 23, 2018, 10:18 am
A true leader
Jeremy Spinak has spent countless hours at meetings and functions representing our community, and has made a huge impact, but he has never sought the limelight.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: AJN file
August 23, 2018, 9:14 am
Progress at Yeshivah?
Rabbi Telsner and Rabbi Groner must prioritise the welfare of Yeshivah and Chabad.
Counsel Assisting Gail Furness, Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull look through the Message to Australia book containing hand-written letters from victims of child sexual abuse at the final sitting of the Royal Commission. Photo: AAP Image/ Supplied by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
December 21, 2017, 12:01 am
‘Those who spoke up are heroes’
THE Royal Commission has now completed its work. The findings in general, and in particular the findings in relation to the failures of the rabbinic leadership of Yeshiva Sydney and Yeshivah Melbourne, must shake us to the core.
Anton Block.
December 20, 2017, 12:01 am
‘We must be vigilant’
"THE Inquiry, its public hearings, findings and recommendations have been of seminal ongoing importance for the whole of Australian society," said Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) president Anton Block.
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September 15, 2017, 9:24 am
Selective outrage and double standards
A conversion taking place. Photo: Edwardshtern/Dreamstime.
August 22, 2017, 12:01 am
‘Our converts are as kosher as yours’
HOSE in the position of authority must represent their constituents in accordance with applicable legal and ethical requirements. If that is not happening questions have to be asked and solutions have to be found. 
Avi Yemini.
August 11, 2017, 12:01 am
Unsavoury bedfellows
WHEN did the world turn upside down? This Sunday, Neil Erikson, who in 2014 pleaded guilty to making racist phone calls to Melbourne’s Rabbi Dovid Gutnick, was due to rally alongside Jewish activist Avi Yemini in Sydney to demonstrate against the court ruling on the FREE shule in Bondi.
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