October 7 Commemoration, Jewish Care Melbourne 7.10.2024

October 7 commemoration in Melbourne

October 8, 2024 | AIJAC

We reflect, pray, and mourn those we lost on and since October 7.

An IDF bulldozer checks for explosive charges beneath roads approaching the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem (Screenshot)

IDF, Shin Bet launch major operation in northern West Bank

August 28, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

There has been an alarming escalation of security threats from the northern West Bank in recent months.

Image: United Nations/ X

The UN continues to ignore Israeli victims of terrorism

August 28, 2024

The aftermath of the violent settler attack upon the West Bank town of Jit (Image: X/ Twitter)

Jewish community condemnation of settler violence is not new

August 27, 2024

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Nine months after Oct. 7: Where Israel stands now

Palestinian Red Crescent workers from Al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip (Image: Shutterstock)

Hamas’ impossible casualty figures

Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong at the United Nations, New York (image: United Nations/screenshot)

Wong’s Middle East proposals would make things worse

October 9, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

It is appropriate for foreign ministers to float initiatives and ideas to resolve international problems, but they should first be very sure they are improving the situation rather than exacerbating it.

The "Forever War" was declared by Hamas long before October 7 (Image: Shutterstock)

Hamas’ 7 October attack, one year on: How it’s changed the Middle East

October 7, 2024 | Ran Porat

That day, 7 October, was a seismic event in the history of the Middle East. A year later, what are the aftershocks of this event? What are its implications for the Palestinian issue, and for the balance of power in the region between the pro-Western bloc and the “axis of resistance”?

The author's son at the Nova Festival memorial site in Israel

When our Miracle Day turned Black

October 7, 2024 | Tammy Reznik

Until the ‘Black Sabbath’ of 2023, October 7 was our family’s day of miracles… It was also our son’s 21st birthday. 

Prayer ceremony for Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) on the Tel Aviv Promenade (Image: Shutterstock)

The Last Word: Lessons of a year of war

October 16, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

It’s hard to believe how time has passed and brought us up to and past the agonising anniversary of October 7. There are so many lessons we have learned and are still learning from that day and this awful war…

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Cine File: The day the music died

October 16, 2024 | Allon Lee

The film tells the story of October 7 from the perspectives of 17 partygoers, individually talking direct to camera. 

Sheik Youssef Nabha of Sydney’s Arrahman Mosque (Image: YouTube screenshot)

Sydney Sheikh holds hateful vigil mourning Nasrallah

October 16, 2024 | Ran Porat

Shi’ite cleric Youssef Nabha is the imam of the Arrahman mosque in Sydney. He is an avid supporter of the Iranian regime, spreads conspiracy theories (such as ‘the US created ISIS’) and has openly voiced antisemitic views multiple times.

Graphic showing Hamas use of a school as a base – an increasingly common pattern in northern Gaza (Image: IDF)

Hamas’ command centres in schools 

Oct 16, 2024

An IDF graphic of the targeted Hezbollah leadership (IDF)

How weakened is Hezbollah?

Oct 16, 2024

IDF soldiers active in southern Lebanon (Image: Globe Eye News/ X)

Behind the News – November 2024

Oct 16, 2024

Nasrallah’s speeches show he was not only a terrrorist leader but an explicitly antisemitic one (Image: Mohammad Kassir/ Shutterstock)

Scribblings: Recalling Hezbollah antisemitism

Oct 16, 2024

The site of the attack that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut (Image: Mohamad Safa/ X)

Battle for the North

Oct 16, 2024

An Israeli soldier from an EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) unit poses with a weapon used by Hezbollah seized during combat operations in Lebanon at a base in southern Israel, Oct. 9, 2024. (Image: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Editorial: Ending the “Ring of Fire”

Oct 16, 2024

Over-reliance on technology to provide “early warning” and belief in deterrence led to the IDF being taken by surprise on October 7 (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

A strategic game changer

Sep 24, 2024

Israeli forces have been forced to return to the increasingly lawless cities of the northern West Bank because they have become a haven for Iranian-armed and funded terror gangs (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Preventing the West Bank from becoming Gaza

Sep 24, 2024

The devastation wrought by October 7 and its aftermath must not be allowed to destroy our optimism (Image: Jose Hernandez/ Shutterstock)

The Last Word: Beyond this year of shattered hope

Sep 24, 2024