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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission. Enter site A Muslim cleric who described Jews as as criminals, terrorists, and monsters during a sermon in a Sydney mosque has apologised to the Jewish community.
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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
Dozens of Jewish philanthropists from around the world have written to Israel's Foreign Minister protesting legislation designed to limit international funding of human rights organisations. The legislation would impose an 80% tax on any funds received by Israeli NGOs from foreign states.
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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission.
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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
Victoria's Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) has released images and video of three men believed to be involved in firebombing the Adass Israel synagogue in December last year. The CCTV images captured a blue VW Golf 2020 sedan driving up to the synagogue. Three men wearing hoodies and masks get out of the car and carry several jerry cans to the synagogue.
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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
Three of the four novels shortlisted for the National Library of Israel's Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are debut novels – and the fourth is only the author's second novel. While last year's winner was the controversial non-fiction book, Palestine 1936 by Oren Kessler, this year the judges have returned to the prize's traditional fare, choosing novels that explore various facets of contemporary, historical and even possible future Jewish lives. The prize will be announced later this month.
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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
An Israeli online monitoring organisation has identified 80 anti-Jewish posts related to Australia's election campaign. The posts peddled antisemitic stereotypes such as claiming Jews control Australia and exert undue influence on government. Some framed immigration policy as a tool of Jewish control, accusing both major political parties of being complicit in advancing this agenda.
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2 months ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
Pamphlets distributed in two Melbourne electorates with a high proportion of Jewish voters have deeply upset Australian Jews this week. It follows other cases of weaponising Jewish issues this election campaign, with recent attacks on Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Wentworth independent Allegra Spender. A pamphlet distributed in the heavily Jewish area of Caulfield by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network attacks the Liberal party for "Giving the Jews everything they want".
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2 months ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
This week, over 1.7 million people watched Ethan Klein and Hasan Piker debate Israel and Palestine on YouTube. Both hugely popular internet personalities, the former friends once hosted a political podcast together, The Leftovers, on Klein’s successful YouTube channel, the H3 Podcast. In October 2023, the pair debated the Hamas massacre, and the wider Israel/Palestine conflict, during a volatile episode titled ‘Israel vs Gaza.’ The next month, the podcast went on hiatus, never to return.
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2 months ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
From one angle, Josh Burns looks like the ideal candidate for the substantial proportion of Melbourne’s Jewish community who live in Macnamara, the electorate including Caulfield, St Kilda, Ripponlea and Balaclava. Burns, 38, grew up in Caulfield and lives in St Kilda, went to Mount Scopus College, and played basketball for Maccabi, where he was a rare beast as a 1.91 metre (6ft 3) Jewish boy. Plus he has the advantage of incumbency and being a Labor MP in a safe Labor seat.
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2 months ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone
The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission. Enter site I recently told a friend that I wasn’t looking forward to Pesach, a festival I consider to be a culinary desert. “But you can eat rice!” she replied.
