Mark Dreyfus
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
From left: Victorian MP Martin Foley, ALP Macnamara candidate Josh Burns and Deputy ALP Leader Tanya Plibersek at Burns’ campaign launch. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 19, 2019, 12:00 am
Plibersek at Burns launch
AN enthusiastic crowd of ALP supporters packed into St Kilda's Hotel Esplanade for the launch of Josh Burns' bid to keep Macnamara in Labor hands.
By Peter Kohn
Mount Scopus principal Rabbi James Kennard (left) with ALP candidate Josh Burns at Caulfield Hospital last Sunday. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 4, 2019, 9:26 am
Mount Scopus heading to Caulfield?
MOUNT Scopus College's dream of moving the entire school to Caulfield could be confirmed within 18 months.
By Peter Kohn
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
Jules Hoffman points to his brother Adolf's name on the National Jewish War Memorial. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos
August 16, 2018, 11:20 am
Honouring our fallen Diggers
JEWISH history was made in our nation's capital last Sunday when Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove officially unveiled the first ever Australian Jewish War Memorial (AJWM), which commemorates all 341 Jewish Diggers who are known to have died on active service for their country from 1900 to today.
By Shane Desiatnik
Stuart Robert. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 5, 2018, 12:01 am
MPs apologise for Evian
THE world "turned its back on God's chosen people", federal MP Stuart Robert said last week while moving a parliamentary motion apologising for Australia's "indifference" to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust.
By Gareth Narunsky
Malka Leifer appears in an Israeli court. Photo: AP
March 2, 2018, 6:00 am
Leifer ‘fit for trial’ but delays loom
For the first time since Malka Leifer allegedly sexually abused children in Melbourne, a court-appointed psychiatrist has determined she is fit to stand trial.
By Nathan Jeffay
The late Barry Cohen.
December 20, 2017, 4:00 pm
Remembering Labor’s Barry Cohen
Tributes have flowed for former federal Labor minister, NSW MP and "justice warrior" Barry Cohen, who has died aged 82.
By Peter Kohn
Jewish members of Parliament witness the completion of the Torah with Rabbi Shmueli Feldman and Rabbi Eli Gutnick. Photo: Andrew Taylor
October 29, 2017, 12:00 am
History made in Parliament
THE first Torah to be inaugurated in Australia's Federal Parliament had its final letters inscribed in a landmark event last week.
Re-enactment of the cavalry charge at the 90th anniversary commemorations in Beersheba. Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit
October 26, 2017, 12:00 am
Turnbull and Shorten bound for Beersheba
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will be joined by senior politicians, military personnel and communal leaders next Tuesday when they stand shoulder to shoulder with their Israeli counterparts in Beersheba to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landmark battle that saw the defeat of the Ottoman Turks and helped pave the way for the establishment of the Jewish State.
By Joshua Levi
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus (left) with Dassi Erlich.
September 28, 2017, 12:00 am
Erlich to meet PM
CHILD sexual abuse survivor Dassi Erlich is set to meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday as she escalates her campaign to have former Adass Israel principal Malka Leifer extradited to Australia.
By Joshua Levi
Stuck in the middle: Labor MPs Michael Danby (far left) and Mark Dreyfus (far right) are at odds over questioning the citizenship of Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg (centre). Photo: Eldad Ohayon.
September 7, 2017, 12:01 am
Fit for service
AN article this week claiming that Australian Jewish MPs could be caught in the ongoing citizenship saga has been blown out of the water by the same academic that was relied on as a basis for the story.
A white supremacist at the rally in Charlottesville. Photo: AP Photo/Steve Helber.
August 24, 2017, 12:01 am
The real threat facing us
OUR community is justifiably concerned about recent developments within the ALP. The misguided push by some elements, led by Bob Carr, to unilaterally recognise the "State of Palestine" has gained some traction at recent state Labor conferences. Much of the rhetoric emanating from supporters of the Palestinian cause has been inflammatory, including morally offensive comparisons with apartheid South Africa. These decisions will have no bearing on Labor's foreign policy determined at its 2018 national conference.
Bob Carr addressing NSW State Labor Conference on Sunday. Photo: AAP Image/Daniel Munoz.
August 3, 2017, 12:01 am
Carr derailed
A NSW Labor motion urging the next Labor federal government to recognise Palestine will not impact federal Labor’s foreign policy, according to several federal Labor politicians.
By Joshua Levi
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
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