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Israeli rabbi attacked visiting mall in Australia
Jewish Journal
August 25, 2014
A visiting rabbi from Jerusalem was threatened and verbally abused by a gang of youths in a shopping mall in Western Australia on Monday.
Australia’s Jewish cooking club
Jewish Journal
October 17, 2013
In the cookbook collection of nearly every Jewish family sits a sincere yet amateur plastic-ring-bound volume of recipes. A group of women known as the Monday Morning Cooking Club has adopted this tried-and-true sisterhood tradition of culinary anthropology and recipe collecting and brought it into contemporary food culture, via Sydney, Australia.
Israel denies mystery 2010 detainee spied for Australia
Jewish Journal
February 19, 2013
Israel denied on Tuesday that an Australian immigrant who committed suicide in 2010 while jailed for security offenses had spied for his native country.
Israeli lawmakers press for answers on dead Australian ‘Prisoner X’
Jewish Journal
February 12, 2013
Knesset members pressed Israel\’s justice minister for answers on \”Prisoner X,\” who was identified in an Australian TV report as an Australian-born Israeli who worked for the Mossad and died in an Israeli prison.
For science and U.S. jobs: Allow Israelis to visit America visa-free
Jewish Journal
January 15, 2013
The majority of Americans are supportive of Israel. Still, for good reasons, many in Jewish and pro-Israel communities are deeply anxious about both the security of Israel and the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Gay ex-principal sues Jewish school over dismissal
Jewish Journal
November 13, 2012
One of Australia\’s largest Jewish schools is being sued by a former principal who claims he was the victim of unfair dismissal.
Israeli group agrees to delay court action against alleged Palestinian terror front
Jewish Journal
October 15, 2012
Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center has agreed to postpone litigation against an Australian charity it accuses of being a front for a Palestinian terror organization. On Sunday, Executive Council of Australian Jewry chief executive Peter Wertheim brokered talks between representatives of Shurat HaDin and World Vision Australia.
Joshua Bloom: His voice is more than the sum of his parts
Rick Schultz
September 11, 2012
The old theater saying that there are no small parts, only small actors, can also be said for opera. Just ask Australian bass Joshua Bloom, who was in town last month to begin rehearsals as Masetto for the Los Angeles Opera production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The opera’s seven performances run Sept. 22 through Oct. 14 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Australian Jews balk at ‘Breaking the Silence’ abuse reports
Jewish Journal
August 29, 2012
Australian Jewish officials lashed out at a group of former Israeli soldiers who reported abuses they witnessed while serving in the Palestinian territories.
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