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1 week ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
I left Jerusalem on Thursday, June 12 with a suitcase full of hope, and a heart weighed down by the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza that has no end in sight. I had been invited by the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) to attend the Paris Peace Summit.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Rachelle Unreich
It was a photo of college student Tessa Veksler than stopped filmmaker Wendy Sachs in her tracks as she scrolled through Instagram. Tessa – looking like any other fresh-faced, sweats-wearing student, save the silver Star of David around her neck - standing in front of UC Santa Barbara’s Multicultural Center where a handmade “Zionists Not Allowed” was plastered to its glass door. The irony of it: the multicultural centre.
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4 weeks 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 | Ittay Flescher
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 Liberal Zionism, the movement that seeks to reconcile a Jewish state with the principles of democracy, equality and peace is facing its most severe test since Israel’s founding.
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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 | Ittay Flescher
In the shadow of war, trauma, and deepening divisions, it may seem unfathomable to talk about hope —let alone peace. Yet amid the rubble of October 7 and the devastating 18 months that have followed in Gaza, two voices are daring to speak of a different path.
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1 month ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
On May 9, over 5,000 Israelis and Palestinians came together in Jerusalem for the People’s Peace Summit, organised by the ‘It’s Time Coalition’—an alliance of more than 60 peace, reconciliation, and shared society organisations. From the main stage, moments of raw emotion and powerful calls for change echoed across the crowd. Dr. Iman Said, a Palestinian physician from the now-destroyed Rimal neighborhood of Gaza, issued a heartfelt plea to end the war through a two-state solution.
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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.