6+ day, 3+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (761+ words) The ABC’s internal framework for reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could lead to systematically one-sided coverage even when journalists follow it faithfully, according to a new report from the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). The AIJAC report argues that the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (910+ words) Rabbi Yehoram Ulman has closed the public hearings of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion with a deeply personal appeal for Australia to confront hatred and create a country in which Jewish people are genuinely safe. The Chabad…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1075+ words) Australia’s leading Jewish communal organisations have thanked the thousands of people who made submissions and the hundreds who gave evidence, as the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion held its final day of public hearings. The ninth and final…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (533+ words) Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler has called on Greens Senator Nick McKim to withdraw and apologise for remarks accusing the Australian Government and Senator James Paterson of being “captured by Zionist interests”. In an open letter to McKim,…...

3+ week, 7+ 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   (836+ words) Some weeks, events that might ordinarily be viewed in isolation begin to form a pattern. This has been one of them, and for many Australian Jews it feels uncomfortably familiar. Since October 7, we have lived through repeated flare-ups in which…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (725+ words) His challenge was devastatingly simple: “Let us hear from you, under oath, what went wrong from the very top.” That question goes to the heart of the inquiry. Governments did not create every manifestation of this hatred. But governments determine…...