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Mark Dreyfus (right) with ALP leader Bill Shorten at the Kotel.
May 15, 2019, 4:02 pm
On his Mark
Speaking with Peter Kohn, Jewish ALP frontbencher Mark Dreyfus shares his visions for Australia and his hope of becoming a senior minister in a Shorten government.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Meir Kahane. Photo: Gene Kappock/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images
February 28, 2019, 6:29 pm
Netanyahu’s deal with the devil
Kahanism, with all its despicable racism and hatred, has resurfaced from the gutters of Israeli politics into the mainstream of pre-election debate.
By Sam Lipski
Otzma Yehudit's Michael Ben-Ari (left), and Baruch Marzel. Photo:Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90
February 28, 2019, 9:49 am
Bibi slammed over deal with Kahanists
A new deal in Israeli politics means that Kahanists will be in the coalition if Benjamin Netanyahu wins the upcoming election.
By Nathan Jeffay
Benny Gantz. Photo: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit
January 17, 2019, 12:00 am
Gantz emerges from the political shadows
Bibi's biggest challenger came out of the shadows this week, Benny Gantz, giving the first hints on his campaign themes.
By Nathan Jeffay
Jeremy Corbyn.
June 15, 2017, 12:02 am
Corbyn’s success at the polls ‘disturbing’
Australian Jewish leaders are concerned over the significant boost to the Labour Party in the UK election, warning that the results will give leader Jeremy Corbyn “a free pass” despite his record of support for terrorist organisations and failure to tackle anti-Semitism within his party.
By Evan Zlatkis
French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images
May 22, 2017, 11:38 am
French President Macron withdraws 2nd BDS-supporting candidate
For the second time this month, the party of French President Emmanuel Macron withdrew from its parliamentary elections ticket a candidate who promoted online a boycott of Israel.
The Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne. The final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that 15 of the 25 Jewish victims that spoke to the Royal Commission in private hearings were abused at Yeshivah in Melbourne or Yeshiva in Sydney.
November 25, 2016, 12:00 am
Yeshivah elections chaotic
The Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools Limited election is quickly descending into chaos after three candidates nominated for the board dropped out.
By Joshua Levi
Moshe Ya’alon in Sydney this week. Photo: Noel Kessel.
August 25, 2016, 12:00 am
Ya’alon in Australia
FOR Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, the man who could be Israel’s next prime minister, visiting Australia has become something of a tradition.
By Evan Zlatkis
June 9, 2016, 10:24 am
Greens: We’ll speak to Palestinian group but not Zionism Victoria
September 12, 2013, 12:00 am
Welcoming our ‘exceptional friends’ in government
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) says incoming Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been given a “clear mandate to govern” in a letter of congratulations sent to the Liberal leader.
By Gareth Narunsky
September 9, 2013, 2:28 pm
Sydney’s Jewish electorates stay with incumbent parties
THE incumbent party retained each of Sydney’s three most Jewish electorates at Saturday’s election.
August 8, 2013, 12:00 am
Pollies praise poll date move
TRUE to his word that he would reconsider holding an election on Yom Kippur, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this week announced Australia would go to the polls a week earlier on September 7, a move that has been met with praise by Jewish politicians on both sides of the divide.
By adam kamien
August 8, 2013, 12:00 am
Howard: ‘We wouldn’t have abstained’
AS Australia swings into election mode, former prime minister John Howard has said his government would not have abstained from the United Nations’ vote on Palestinian statehood.
By Gareth Narunsky
February 7, 2013, 12:00 am
Poll date dismay
ALL three Jewish members of federal Parliament have confirmed they intend to attend synagogue on election day, which this year coincides with Yom Kippur.
By Gareth Narunsky
January 23, 2013, 3:14 pm
The new face of Israel
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