Walt Secord
February 7, 2019, 12:01 am
$2 million security pledge
STATE Labor has pledged $2 million for Jewish communal security should it win the NSW election, it was announced this week.
By Gareth Narunsky
New NSW Labor leader Michael Daley (left) with Ron Hoenig MP at Maroubra Synagogue.
November 15, 2018, 12:01 am
Community congratulates Daley
THE NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) has congratulated state Opposition Leader Michael Daley on his new role.
By Gareth Narunsky
Shalom Gamarada scholarship recipient Tahlia Mckee. Photo: Nadine Saacks.
August 22, 2018, 12:34 pm
Bipartisan support for Indigenous scholarships
The statistics alone for the Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Residential Scholarship Program are worth celebrating - 41 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates since 2009, including 23 doctors.
By Shane Desiatnik
Vic Alhadeff.
August 22, 2018, 12:08 pm
Foley sorry after Vic barred
NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley personally apologised because a Jewish community leader was barred entry to the launch of the Labor Union Multicultural Action Committee on Monday night.
June 29, 2018, 12:01 am
‘Appalling’ speaker
THE appearance of a prominent Israel boycott activist at the NSW Labor conference this weekend has been labelled "appalling".
By Gareth Narunsky
NSW Greens MLC Dr Mehreen Faruqi.
February 15, 2018, 12:00 am
Greens MLC slams pro-Israel Christian group
The NSW Greens claim a function for the Christian Friends of Israeli Communities is funding "illegal Israeli settlements" and that the parliament should reconsider hosting the organisation.
By Joshua Levi
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.
Sophie Caplan with her sons Ben, Gideon and Jonathan.
January 26, 2018, 12:01 am
Survivor leaves lasting legacy
WITH the passing of Sophie Caplan on January 19, the Sydney Jewish community has lost another precious Holocaust survivor, living historian and pillar of the community.
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
NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has promised to strengthen racial vilification laws if Labor is elected in the 2019 NSW election.
April 20, 2017, 11:11 am
MP under fire over Bibi-bashing speech
LABOR MP Julia Finn has been slammed for her “ill-informed and deeply offensive” comments about Benjamin Netanyahu in Parliament earlier this month, in which she labelled the Israeli Prime Minister “an enemy of peace”.
By Evan Zlatkis
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
NSW Labor MLC Shaoquett Moselmane. Photo: Twitter
October 27, 2016, 12:00 am
Moselmane slammed for ‘fictional history’
A claim made in NSW Parliament last week by Opposition Whip in the Legislative Council, Shaoquett Moselmane, that no Jews in pre-State Israel were “ever harmed” by Palestinians, has outraged political and communal leaders.
By Shane Desiatnik
September 8, 2016, 12:01 am
‘Sickening’ attack on war graves
POLICE are investigating an incident where a number of World War II gravestones were defaced with swastikas at Nowra, on the NSW South Coast.
By Evan Zlatkis
One of the swastikas drawn on the back of a headstone. Photo: South Coast Register
August 31, 2016, 11:35 am
Swastikas scrawled on Nowra graves
Swastikas were drawn onto the backs of nine headstones in the Nowra War Cemetery, local media reported.
By Evan Zlatkis
NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton with Vic Alhadeff (on left) and Jeremy Spinak.
June 9, 2016, 12:00 am
Labor pushes for tougher hate laws
The NSW Labor Opposition has introduced legislation to stop hate speech in NSW, and accused the state government of sitting on its hands instead of fixing the state’s “broken” anti-vilification laws.
By Evan Zlatkis
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