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Australian media company CEO ‘unreservedly’ sorry for photo of Nazi salute

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The CEO of the Australian media company Foxtel, which has nearly 4.7 million paid subscribers and which made about $330 million last quarter, has apologized “unreservedly” after a decade-old image surfaced of him performing a Nazi...

Four arrested after terror supporters occupy roof of Australian parliament

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Australian police arrested four pro-Palestinian protesters on Thursday after they briefly occupied the roof of the national parliament in Canberra with anti-Israel banners. Video and photos of the demonstration shared on social media showed the...

Sydney bakery battered for Hamas-themed birthday cake

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A baker in Sydney has ignited online condemnation for creating a birthday cake featuring imagery associated with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The cake, meant for a 4-year-old boy’s party, prompted fury from Jewish groups and Australian...

Australian senator says he didn’t know he was posing with neo-Nazi

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Ralph Babet, 40, who represents Victoria in the Australian Senate, was photographed with a young man who appears to display a Nazi-like salute. The Australian politician, who is seen giving a thumbs up, has said...
The words “Neuremburg 2.0” (sic), next to a hangman noose, and “Covid is Jew” were spray-painted on an underpass in Melbourne, Australia. Source: Screenshot.

Australia criminalizes public ‘Sieg Heil’ salutes, displays of Nazi symbols

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The parliament of Australia has passed a new law making it illegal to promote iconography associated with the Third Reich. The bill, called the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment, received unanimous support on Wednesday. Mark Alfred Dreyfus, the attorney general...
Jeremy Jones. Credit: Courtesy of the Australian Jewish News.

Australian Jewish leader Jeremy Jones dies at age 64

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Jeremy Jones, one of the most influential figures in Australia’s Jewish community, passed away on Sept. 6 after losing a battle with cancer. The 64-year-old was the director of international and community affairs at the Australia/Israel &...
The Australian flag flies above Sydney Harbor and the city's Opera House. Credit: ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock.

Canberra to resume use of term ‘occupied Palestinian territories’

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Australia's Labor government will resume the use of the term "occupied Palestinian territories" in reference to eastern Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, reversing an unofficial policy stance that had been in place...
Teens in the Foundation Board Incubator at the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC in Houston. Courtesy: Honeycomb.

Philanthropic teens feel more passion for Judaism, survey says

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Young people who take part in charity programs feel more connections to Judaism. That’s according to a new survey from Honeycomb, a Jewish youth philanthropy resource. “By creating space to blend these passions with Jewish learning and...
A Cambodian woman takes her kids to school on a motorbike in a small village at the Angkor Wat temple complex, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Feb. 26, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90. | Hadas Parush/Flash90

Nonprofit founded by Australian Jewish family changes lives in Cambodia

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If an Australian Jewish high school student hadn’t missed a deadline in 2009, her family might not have gone on to found a nonprofit, which is helping young people some 4,300 miles away in...
Victorian Labor Party delegates at the state conference, June 2023. Source: Twitter via AIJAC.

Australian governing party branch calls to recognize ‘Palestine’

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The governing Australian Labor Party’s branch in Victoria, the country’s second-most-populous state, passed a resolution calling on the federal government to “move immediately to recognise Palestine.” The measure was “carried by the voices,” meaning it...