SYDNEY – An article on illegal boat people by the publisher of Australia’s main Jewish newspaper has ignited a storm of protest, with some critics savaging it for “vilifying Muslims” and promoting “xenophobic, Islamophobic and heartless sentiments.”...
SYDNEY -- Moments after Steven Solomon walked into Ramat Gan Stadium for the opening of the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel, the Australian teenager sent his parents a photo with a message describing how amazing it was to be at his first “Jewish Olympics.”...
SYDNEY, Australia — He's been brandished “the most dangerous man on earth,” accused of being a “public advocate of genocide” and likened to Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi “Angel of Death." Yet he’s also been hailed as “one of the world’s...
NEW YORK -- A new study found that Jews are the most internationally migratory of all the world’s major religious groups. “Faith on the Move,” a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, found...
WASHINGTON -- Israel is the eighth most-favored country by Americans, a Gallup poll found. Some 71 percent of Americans view Israel favorably, a three-point increase over last year’s results of 68 percent, the Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 2-5, measured. ...
Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency reportedly are still using foreign passports to conduct undercover operations in other countries. According to a report Sunday in The Times of London, new evidence shows that foreign nationals residing in...
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- Orthodox Jews have appealed to a court in Sydney to overturn a decision to deny them an Eruv. Plans for a symbolic religious enclosure have been underway for more than five years on Sydney's north shore, but last year the local...
SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian TV broadcaster rejected complaints from Jewish groups that a controversial series "endorses and reinforces demeaning stereotypes about Jews." Special Broadcasting Service ombudsman Sally Begbie this week dismissed a...
SYDNEY, Australia—Two Torah scrolls were dedicated in Victoria's state parliament before being led through the streets by the Commonwealth's Chief Rabbi,Lord Jonathan Sacks, to Melbourne's oldest functioning synagogue. Sunday morning's service celebrated...
SYDNEY, Australia - The Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth arrived in Australia on his last official visit before stepping down after two decades in his post. Lord Jonathan Sacks, who travelled with his wife, Lady Elaine, was the guest of honor at a gala...
SYDNEY, Australia—A high-profile Jewish Australian cited the effects of the Holocaust on his family as a driving force in his work to help "end the exclusion" of Australia's Indigenous peoples from the nation's constitution. Melbourne lawyer Mark Leibler,...
SYDNEY, Australia – Australian Jewry’s umbrella body slammed a national broadcaster for screening a controversial TV series that “endorses and reinforces demeaning stereotypes about Jews.” The Executive Council of Australian Jewry submitted a...
