Jeremy Jones

The Uniting Church/ECAJ National Dialogue.

May 8, 2019, 3:31 pm

A GROUP of Uniting Church and Jewish community representatives have gathered in Sydney to condemn the “spate of racist invective, vandalism and harassment” marring the federal election campaign.

ECAJ co-CEO Peter Wertheim.
Photo: Noel Kessel

December 23, 2018, 12:01 am

ECAJ ‘cautiously welcomes’ findings

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has "cautiously welcomed" the long-awaited release of the Religious Freedom Review and the federal government's response.

By Gareth Narunsky

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

From left: Jeremy Jones, Labor Senators Anthony Chisholm and Kristina Keneally, Colin Rubenstein.

August 22, 2018, 12:17 pm

Keneally and co return from Rambam

Labor Senators Kristina Keneally and Anthony Chisholm addressed an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council briefing earlier this month after participating in a recent Rambam study program to Israel.

April 20, 2018, 12:01 am

Carr does a u-turn

FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr has withdrawn from an event billed as "The right of return … commemoration of 70th anniversary of Al Nakbah".

By Gareth Narunsky

Dr Kamila Klausinska, Fay Sussman and Judy Menczel.

March 23, 2018, 12:00 am

ABC doco tells of pilgrimage to Poland

Australian musician Fay Sussman embarked on a moving pilgrimage to Poland, which has been recorded in a captivating documentary called Fay's Journey, set to screen on ABC's Compass program on March 24 at 6pm.

Holocaust survivors in Israel last month protesting outside the Polish embassy. Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

March 15, 2018, 12:01 am

Our Pole position

THE Australian Jewish community has urged the Polish government to rethink its new law which makes it illegal to claim Polish involvement in the Holocaust.

By Peter Kohn

Andrew Casey, who died suddenly last week.

February 8, 2018, 12:00 am

Mourning community stalwart Andrew Casey

Tributes have flooded in for community stalwart Andrew Casey, who died suddenly at the age of 64 last week. Casey came to Australia as a refugee, was a journalist, media adviser, political activist, trade unionist and proud Jew.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.

April 7, 2017, 12:00 am

Senate rejects 18C amendment

There has been a mixed reaction from leading members of the Jewish community to news that Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act will remain unchanged.

By Evan Zlatkis

PM Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis discussing the proposed amendment to Section 18C on Tuesday. Photo: AAP Image/Sam Mooy

March 23, 2017, 12:00 am

Mixed reaction to 18C proposal

Jewish community opinion remains divided over Section 18C of the federal Racial Discrimination Act, after news that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is proposing landmark changes to the act.

By Peter Kohn

The late Dr Joachim Schneeweiss (third from right).

March 9, 2017, 12:00 am

‘True mensch’ mourned

Tributes flowed in for Dr Joachim Schneeweiss, a “true mensch” and a “giant” of the Australian Jewish community, when he died at the age of 89 on Monday (March 6).

By Evan Zlatkis

February 9, 2017, 12:00 am

Leaders address 18C committee

Two communal organisations presented cases for the retention of existing anti-racism legislation when they spoke to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights last week.

Tony Burke (left) and Bob Carr. Photo: AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

December 8, 2016, 12:00 am

The ALP and Israel: Redressing the balance

A new Labor group has been established, with the aim of restoring balance in the party on Israel and the Middle East, The AJN can exclusively reveal.

By Evan Zlatkis

AIJAC’s Jeremy Jones (left) met Shimon Peres in Jerusalem in 2007.

September 29, 2016, 10:25 am

Australian Jewish leaders mourn Peres

“Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives.” So said Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding generation of leaders.

AIJAC's director of international and community affairs, Jeremy Jones.

July 14, 2016, 12:00 am

Hanson’s unwelcome return to Parliament

Pauline Hanson has been slammed by Jeremy Jones for declaring a war on Australian “tolerance, community harmony and social cohesion”.

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