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August 1, 2024, 2:00 pm
Office supply store manager refuses to laminate Jewish newspaper
Officeworks employee in Melbourne said she wasn't 'comfortable' with laminating pages of the Australian Jewish News
By Michelle Rosenberg
Jack Black bares all but a guitar in Tenacious D band promo pic.
July 16, 2024, 3:41 pm
Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour after he is ‘blindsided’ by Trump comment
Comedy rock band scraps tour after row over Trump joke by bandmate
By Jenni Frazer
Screenshot of Qantas stewardess wearing Palestinian flag badge. Pic: Sky News Australia
January 4, 2024, 1:10 pm
Airline crew ‘counselled’ after wearing Palestinian badges on board flight
Cabin crew member threatens to fight the Qantas passenger who complained of feeling 'intimidated' by the display on board flight from Melbourne to Hobart on 20th December
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside the Sydney Opera House, Oct. 9, 2023. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images) via JTA
October 11, 2023, 9:37 pm
Sydney government apologizes for pro-Palestinian protest that included ‘gas the Jews’ chants
Premier Chris Minns admits the outside of the opera house was “overrun with people that were spewing racial epithets and hatred."
By NOMI KALTMANN and GABE FRIEDMAN JTA
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong speaks at a symposium in Brisbane, July 28, 2023. (Pat Hoelscher/AFP via Getty Images)
August 10, 2023, 9:21 am
Australia will refer to West Bank as ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ in policy change
Australia said its strengthening its opposition to Israeli settlements by “affirming they are illegal under international law and a significant obstacle to peace.”
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Malka Leifer entering a courtroom (October 2019)
April 3, 2023, 2:12 pm
Australian court finds Malka Leifer guilty of rape at ultra-orthodox school
Leifer, who was found guilty of 18 charges, assaulted two sisters during her time as principal at the Adass Israel school in Melbourne. 
By JN Reporter
Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong (Photo: Reuters)
October 18, 2022, 10:28 am
Australia reverses move to recognise west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the previous Australian government had taken decision 'to play politics, and it was no more than that'
By Michael Daventry and Reuters
Malka Leifer, pictured outside an Israeli court in 2018 (Photo: Reuters)
August 1, 2022, 12:31 pm
Further delay announced in trial of alleged sex abuser Malka Leifer
The former headteacher of a strictly-Orthodox school in Melbourne will face her accusers this month after a years-long campaign
By Jenni Frazer
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss during her speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester
October 4, 2021, 11:47 am
Liz Truss: Israel in ‘network of liberty’ to counter ‘malign actors’
Foreign secretary says the West faces a stark choice of either having to 'retreat and retrench' against authoritarianism 'club together and advance the cause of freedom'
By Lee Harpin at the Conservative Party Conference
Snap-It delivers boilers and spare parts within 30 to 40 minutes
August 7, 2021, 3:19 pm
Enterprising connections save time for new Deliveroo-style trade
Two recently-launched apps that use on-demand services are saving people time and money and are changing the trades landscape
By Candice Krieger
Sunset on Tel Aviv beach
May 6, 2021, 1:41 pm
Jewish News poll: More Brits now consider Israel for holiday than before virus
EXCLUSIVE: Savanta ComRes survey for Jewish News and BICOM suggests less interest in America, Italy and other key destinations compared to before coronavirus.
By Justin Cohen
Mourners place flowers as they pay their respects at a makeshift memorial near the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
February 13, 2021, 1:00 pm
Australia ‘will heed threat warning’
Head of intelligence committee said the government is taking the growing far-right menace 'extremely seriously', especially in wake of the Christchurch mosque massacre in 2019
By Jewish News Reporter
Malka Leifer entering a courtroom (October 2019)
January 26, 2021, 5:46 pm
Israeli woman charged with child sex abuse in Australia is extradited
Seven years after a formal request was filed for Malki Leifer to face justice, she returns to Australia to face 74 charges of child sex abuse
By JTA
Yad Vashem's Hall of Names
October 28, 2020, 11:15 am
Yad Vashem’s free educational course with UCL attracts 1,700 participants
Israel's Shoah remembrance museum teams up with University College London’s Centre for Holocaust Education, with sign-ups coming from 78 countries around the world
By Tali Fraser
Yiddish Australian newspaper, Australia Leben, is one of the titles set to be digitised (Courtsey: National Library of Australia)
October 15, 2020, 4:17 pm
200,000 pages of Australian Jewish press going back 180 years is digitised
'Free and fully searchable access' to nearly two centuries of Australian Jewish history goes live thanks to an international initiative
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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