Anton Block

November 5, 2020, 12:39 pm

UAE, Jewish community plant tree of peace

As part of continuous efforts to spread the value of tolerance between different peoples and religions, the UAE Consulate in Melbourne organised the Peace Tree Initiative.

By Peter Kohn

Incoming ECAJ president Jillian Segal with outgoing president Anton Block. Photo: Peter Haskin

November 28, 2019, 12:00 am

New ECAJ president Segal gets to work

Incoming Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Jillian Segal says 'we have an obligation to grow the leaders of the future'.

By Gareth Narunsky

Malka Leifer being led into the Jerusalem District court last February.
Photo: EPA

September 24, 2019, 3:33 pm

‘Circus’ slammed

Australian Jewish community leaders have slammed the latest development in the Malka Leifer case as a 'circus'.

By AJN STAFF

JBOD president Lesli Berger on stage with other faith leaders at St Mary's Cathedral.

March 21, 2019, 12:00 am

JBOD launches Christchurch crowdfunding campaign

THE New Zealand mosque massacres prompted the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) to launch a crowd-funding campaign in support of the Muslim community in Christchurch.

January 24, 2019, 12:01 am

‘We mourn alongside her family and friends’

AIIA Maasarwe came to Melbourne to study as an exchange student at La Trobe University. But on Monday evening, her father Saeed helped to carry her coffin at the Albanian Islamic centre and mosque in Dandenong.

By Rebecca Davis

Foreign minister Penny Wong. 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

Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaking at the Sydney Institute last Saturday.
Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

December 20, 2018, 6:45 pm

Mixed reaction to Prime Minister’s announcement

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has called Labor's pledge to reverse the Morrison government's recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital "hasty and ill-advised".

By Gareth Narunsky

Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin

December 16, 2018, 11:11 am

‘West Jerusalem is the capital of Israel’

In a rare moment of unity Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Cheryl Edwards, who led the advisory group for the apology, came together to apologise to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. Photo: AAP Image

October 25, 2018, 12:01 am

The national apology

WITH one sentence, emotion filled Parliament House in Canberra on Monday. "Today the Australian government and this Parliament, on behalf of all Australians, unreservedly apologises to the victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

By Joshua Levi

Kerryn Phelps. Photo: AAP Image/Chris Pavlich

October 25, 2018, 12:01 am

Phelps wins Wentworth

KERRYN Phelps has made history, becoming the first Jewish female in Australia's federal parliament after beating the Liberal Party's Dave Sharma in a close Wentworth by-election.

By Gareth Narunsky

October 18, 2018, 12:01 am

PM considering embassy move

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has denied that an announcement to look at moving Australia's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is motivated by Jewish votes in this weekend's Wentworth by-election.

By Gareth Narunsky

Palestinian students outside a UNRWA school in Beirut. Photo: EPA/Nabil Mounzer

September 6, 2018, 12:01 am

Palestinian aid shake-up ‘welcome’

AUSTRALIAN Jewish community leaders have praised a move by the US to cut the entire American aid budget to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid to the Palestinians.

By Peter Kohn

Julie Bishop speaking at Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne last year. Photo: Ren Rizzolo

September 4, 2018, 9:35 am

‘Israel support to continue’

AUSTRALIA'S new Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne will continue to support the State of Israel, according to Liberal deputy leader Josh Frydenberg.

August 24, 2018, 1:41 pm

Scott Morrison elected PM, Frydenberg deputy Liberal leader

Ismail al-Wahwah, Arabic media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia, looks on during a press conference in Sydney on Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012. A Muslim Convention is to be held this Sunday in Sydney about the future of the Muslim World post-the Arab uprisings. Photo: AAP Image/Paul Miller

August 3, 2018, 9:54 am

Sheikh detained in Jordan

HIZB ut-Tahrir Australia spiritual leader Ismail al-Wahwah, who in 2015 called on people to "rid" the world of the Jewish "hidden evil" and declared "the ember of jihad against the Jews will continue to burn", has been arrested in Jordan.

By Gareth Narunsky