Tim Wilson

May 7, 2025, 2:01 pm

Wilson wins Goldstein

Daniel claimed victory early on election night, but her lead vanished once postal votes were counted.

By AJN STAFF

Victorian parliamentarians at the Liberal Friends of Israel event at Central Shule. Left to right: David Southwick, Tim Wilson, Benson Saulo, Amelia Hamer and James Paterson. Photo: Bruce Hill

March 7, 2025, 5:16 pm

Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel warning on antisemitism

"Staggered" by fundraising result, says Chairman Danny Lamm

By Bruce Hill

Tim Cohen. East Brunswick wine store. Photo: Peter Haskin

October 31, 2024, 10:34 am

‘We don’t need your kind here’

"I feel truly broken as a person and as a business owner," Cohen said in the video, describing a recent incident where a patron allegedly entered his store.

By Bruce Hill

Around 600 people attended a rally in Melbourne in support of the Jewish community, Israel and the rights of Jews to feel safe in the Melbourne CBD. Photo: Peter Haskin

October 9, 2024, 12:11 pm

Messages of pride and standing up

Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann of the Ark Centre in Hawthorn told the rally "Stand up. Don't step back. That's not what we do".

By Bruce Hill

May 5, 2022, 9:01 am

‘We need majority government’

"It's antisemitism that needs to be called out. That's one of the reasons I've always believed in free speech – because bigots out themselves."

By Peter Kohn

July 23, 2020, 12:00 am

‘Burn in an oven’: Student threatened with a knife

The case is the third set of antisemitic bullying allegations levelled against Brighton Secondary College in as many weeks.

By Rebecca Davis

From left: Tim Wilson, David Southwick, Rabbi Motty Liberow and Senator
James Paterson with children at Hamerkaz Shelanu’s Lamdeni School after
the security grants were announced. Photo: Peter Haskin

July 2, 2020, 12:01 am

$5.2m to upgrade security

'This significant investment by the Morrison government will go a long way to supporting the safety and security of our local Jewish community'.

By Peter Kohn

March 9, 2020, 12:18 pm

Calls for J-AIR upgrade

'The absence of a community broadcasting licence limits the capacity for J-AIR to support the Jewish community and provide awareness for the ongoing safety and security challenges'

By Peter Kohn

October 5, 2018, 12:01 am

Leaders greet security funding

JEWISH community leaders have lauded Prime Minister Scott Morrison's confirmation, reported in last week's AJN, that Beth Weizmann Community Centre will finally get its much-needed federal government funding – as part of round two of the Safer Communities Fund scheme, under which Jewish institutions across Australia received a total of $4.1 million.

By Peter Kohn

The launch of Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel. Photo: Greg Every

July 29, 2018, 12:01 am

Liberal friends rally for Israel

MORE than 300 supporters gathered at Central Shule in Caulfield, as Victorian Liberals, including federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, relaunched Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel.

By Peter Kohn

At the funding announcement at St Kilda Shule, clockwise from top left: State MP David Southwick, immediate past president of South Caulfield Shule Zeev Duieb, Senator James Paterson, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of St Kilda Shule, Tim Wilson MP and Rabbi Dovid Rubinfeld of Melbourne Hebrew Congregation.

May 31, 2018, 12:00 am

Security funding boost for Melbourne shules

Funding for security upgrades at Melbourne shules, Jewish schools and organisations will receive a boost of more than $350,000 from the federal government's Safer Communities Fund.

By Peter Kohn

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

Colonel Richard Kemp with Alex Ryvchin's book, The Anti-Israel Agenda. Photo: Peter Haskin

February 26, 2018, 6:17 pm

The lowdown on Israel’s foes

HOLDING aloft Alex Ryvchin's new book, The Anti-Israel Agenda: Inside the Political War on the Jewish State, Colonel Richard Kemp, one of its contributors, referenced Benjamin Netanyahu's Munich speech in commending the collected essays to attendees at its Victorian launch.

By Peter Kohn

May 25, 2017, 9:15 am

MP’s Israel motion draws flak

THE Coalition and ALP duelled in Federal Parliament this week in an effort to show which party can express greater support for Israel.

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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