2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (312+ words) Rosh Hashanah is our most multifaceted festival. The Torah itself doesn’t call it a New Year or Chag (festival). It is simply called Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance. But the Torah doesn’t tell us who is remembering whom. Is…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (581+ words) Glen Eira City Council has become the first local government in Victoria to adopt a dedicated Antisemitism Strategy and Action Plan, covering 2026 to 2028. The two-year plan was developed in response to data showing that Glen Eira accounted for 43 per cent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1274+ words) Lebanese-born Rawan Osman was in her late 20s when an encounter in a Strasbourg grocery store forced her to confront a fear she could not explain. Living in Strasbourg, France, Osman had moved into a Jewish neighbourhood without realising it. She…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (707+ words) Not every criticism of Israel is antisemitic. Israel, like every democracy, can be criticised—sometimes harshly—for its government, military operations and policies towards the Palestinians. Nor should every Greens parliamentarian be branded an antisemite. But neither qualification absolves the…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (526+ words) Nine years after Australia’s largest survey of Jewish life found a community united by memory but varied in belief and practice, researchers are asking how the pandemic, October 7 and the Bondi Beach terror attack have changed Australian Jews. Gen26: The Australian…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (777+ words) There is a particular kind of vertigo that comes with being young and politically conscious in the current climate. We have inherited a world in which certainty is a luxury few institutions can still afford, and in which the word…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (462+ words) Greg Joffe has been elected president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, defeating Garry Browne in a rare leadership contest at the state’s peak Jewish representative body. Joffe was elected at the Board’s annual general meeting in Sydney on…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1289+ words) John Menadue has earned an important place in Australian public life. His career has encompassed government, diplomacy, business and public administration. That record makes his increasingly antagonistic commentary about Israel, Zionism and mainstream Australian Jewry not less troubling, but more…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (595+ words) Jewish students and families confronting antisemitism could be given a single national point of contact for seeking help and reporting incidents under a proposal being considered by the Antisemitism Education Taskforce. Taskforce chair David Gonski told the Royal Commission on…...