What kind of Jewish life is possible in this country?
December 16, 2025 | Mark Leibler, Paul Rubenstein
However, even as we struggle to understand and come to terms with what happened, one thing we do know is that this event must represent a transformational watershed in Australia’s approach to the scourge of anti-Semitism that has plagued our country for over two years.
Mass shooting on Sydney’s Bondi Beach: Jamie Hyams on NPR radio
December 16, 2025
NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Jamie Hyams, director of public affairs for the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
I warned the PM about terror risk, but his office didn’t listen
December 16, 2025 | Bren Carlill
Every Sunday for two years, people in Melbourne marched down the street displaying Hezbollah symbols without being arrested. They chanted genocidal chants. They shouted slogans calling Jews terrorists. Police stood by and watched.
Calls for the Federal Government to do more to stop anti-Semitism: Colin Rubenstein on ABC Radio National
December 16, 2025
Speaking to Kylie Morris on The Radio National Hour, Dr Colin Rubenstein says the federal government needs to do more to stamp out anti-Semitism.
‘I’m a Jewish woman living in Australia. This doesn’t just feel personal, it is personal.’
December 15, 2025 | Rebecca Davis
Show solidarity publicly. Make antisemitism reprehensible. Intolerable. It’s how homophobic and other racist sentiment changed. Reach out to Jewish people you know — or don’t. Because Jews are the ‘canaries in the coal mine’. It never ends with us.
The attack we warned would happen
December 15, 2025 | Justin Amler
This is a moment that has torn our souls and left our hearts in tatters. The targeted attack on Australian Jews at a Chanukah event will go down as the darkest day in the history of Australian Jews. But it will also go down as one of the darkest days in the history of Australia itself.
Eurovision: A tale of courage vs cowardice
December 11, 2025 | Justin Amler
Yuval Raphael’s performance this year was a testament to strength, integrity, and courage. She represented the best of us. Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and the Netherlands’ performance at Eurovision 2026 — which they will boycott — is a display of cowardice, shame, and dishonour. A symbol of the worst in them.
A rabbi’s dream of Morocco
December 4, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
I felt more comfortable wearing my kippah in Moroccan cities than I often do in Melbourne CBD. The community may have shrunk to just several thousand, but in Casablanca you can find a minyan, kosher food and a Jewish school to send your kids. Most astonishingly, Jewish Dayanim sit as respected officials in the Casablanca Court.
Venezuela, the Jews and the “Axis of Resistance”
December 3, 2025 | Justin Amler
Across history, it’s an old story: when societies struggle, many leaders find it easier to blame Jews than fix their own problems, as Venezuela demonstrates today.
The ABC: A Law unto Itself
November 27, 2025 | Allon Lee
A scandal involving the BBC’s news and current affairs coverage, including its reporting on the Hamas–Israel war, prompted similar analysis of the ABC. The ABC’s response was effectively, “Biased? Us?”
