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Mike Baird (left) with Reuven Rivlin. Photo: GPO/Mark Neiman

Rivlin meets with Baird in Israel

ISRAELI President Reuven Rivlin met at his residence on Sunday afternoon with NSW Premier Mike Baird who is visiting Israel. His arrival in Israel marked the first official visit to Israel

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Ambassador Regev

Australian-born Mark Regev has arrived in Britain to take up his post as Israel’s new ambassador to the UK. The former Mount Scopus student, who made aliyah in 1982, said […]

Craig Laundy (third from left) and Jihad Dib (second from right)  with students from Mount Sinai and Masada Colleges at the Youth Summit. Photo: Noel Kessel.

A day of interfaith learning

MORE than 112 students and teachers from Muslim, Christian and Jewish schools, both state and private, attended Together For Humanity’s (TFH) inaugural Inclusive Communities Youth Summit at NSW Parliament House last week.

Yentes on the set of Fiddler on the Roof (from left) Suzanne Sheldon, Nicki Wendt and Michelle Lewis. Photo: Noel Kessel.

When Yente met yentes

“MATCHMAKER, matchmaker make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch … ” It was a case of a matchmaker meeting her match at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre last week when Nicki Wendt, who plays Yente in the brand new production of Fiddler on the Roof, met some real-life yentes from Jewish matchmaking service JJunction.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan: ‘Anti-Semitism is a crime’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an interview with CNN ensured that Jewish citizens living in Turkey will be safe, and slammed European countries for not heeding his terror warnings. […]

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Drop in Palestinian terrorism

The month of March has experienced a drastic drop in Palestinian terrorism attacks in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and in Israeli cities within the Green Line, according to IDF data. […]

An Israeli Bedouin medic from IsraAID ready to help the arriving refugees. Photo: Lior Sperandeo/IsraAID

Sydneysider volunteering with IsraAID

KNOWN for being a popular holiday destination, the Greek island of Lesvos is now also where thousands of people from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are arriving daily by boat as they seek refuge.

Judy Singer (right) with Leichhardt Council Labor councillor Linda Kelly at the council’s International Women’s Day celebratory event.

Stalwart honoured

THE volunteer work of NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Community Relations Committee member Judy Singer has been recognised by Leichhardt Council as part of its 2016 International Women’s Day Honour Roll.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Boteach at Yom Ha’atzmaut

AMERICAN celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Israeli MK Sharren Haskel will headline this year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut Breakfast hosted by Caulfield Hebrew Congregation.

Christopher Lancucki (centre) and his Slawik Award with (l-r) David Southwick and Nick Wakeling. Photo: Peter Kohn

Poles apart no longer

WHILE some Poles did the work of the Nazis in executing Jews during the Holocaust, some Polish Jews did the work of the Soviets in executing members of the Polish Underground resisting the Soviet takeover of Poland after World War II, a leader of Australia’s Polish community told a gathering this week.