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More funds for Holocaust survivors

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has announced an A$170 million increase in funding for social welfa…

Jewish origins of Mozart’s librettist a ‘poorly kept secret’

One of the most important librettists, or authors of operatic texts, in music history, was born Jewish, but his origins weren’t known widely unt…

Dutch lawmakers urged to make UNRWA funding freeze permanent

The heads of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus on Wednesday pressed Dutch legislators to cut funding to UNRWA altogether as Israel seeks alt…

The Don Pacifico Affair

As diplomats shuttle to and from the Middle East and countries threaten each other, the USA has sent its navy to the Mediterranean. It is worth…

Israeli president's judicial reform compromise gathers momentum

Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s efforts to mediate a compromise on judicial reform have gathered momentum in recent days, possibly leading towa…

Israeli-Polish foreign ministers discuss resuming educational Holocaust visits

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau, have discussed ways to improve bilateral ties, particularly resumin…

Commonwealth Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis receives knighthood

The Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, Ephraim Mirvis, has been appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the…

Is the world waking up to the atrocities of the ayatollahs?

It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent tyranny that lo…

Pray for peace – prepare for action

Peace is always at the forefront of our prayers, but at the same time, most of us should have learnt from bitter past experience that being awar…

A new home in Ashkelon for Ukrainian children

A new home in Ashkelon for Ukrainian children

Abbas’s Holocaust distortion represents a dying past

Despite the Palestinian leader’s despicable comments, the larger Arab world is opening up to Holocaust education.

Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest

Two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles killed by the Nazis during World War II were recently discovered in a forest in Pol…

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sigmond (Solomon) Hoffnung – an entrepreneurial merchant of his time

Sigmond was born in 1830 in Kalisz, Poland and was the elder son of Rev Samuel Hoffnung and his mother Caroline. In 1836 the family migrated to…

Israel fears Western appeasement of Russia emboldens Iran

The United States, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany—known as the P5+1—appear to be closing in on a deal with Iran over its…

Claims Conference launches new innovative social media campaign: #DONTBEABYSTANDER

Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced today a new social media cam…

A conversation with Aron Bielski, last of the Bielski brothers

Jackson Richman: His message to a world struggling through a pandemic ahead of remembrance of Yom Hashoah: “We’re all human. Love and be nice to…

The Vatican opens its wartime archive

Ben Cohen: For many in the Jewish world, it will be a seminal moment in the relationship between Catholics and Jews since the Second Vatican Cou…

Never again? Only if the Jews never stop fighting

Fiamma Nirenstein: Just like those who in 1936 believed that peace was a universal good and that therefore it made sense to ally with Hitler, th…