MISSION leader for IsraAID Hagit Krakov told an audience in Sydney on Tuesday that the Israel-based humanitarian organisation has faced a backlash from other non-government organisations (NGOs) during the course of its global emergency response and disaster relief work.

SHMUEL (Sidney) Morris has received his rabbinical ordination – at the age of 68!

FORMER head teacher of Melbourne’s Adass Israel School Malka Leifer (pictured) is facing a second lawsuit relating to child sex abuse.

LEIBLER Yavneh College is conducting a worldwide search for a new principal after Roy Steinman announced that he will leave the school after almost a decade at its helm.

THE Hakoah Club intends to lodge the Stage 2 development application (DA) for its $47 million redevelopment of White City with Woollahra Council “as soon as possible”, and will be seeking donations to make the project a reality.

HADASSAH Australia has launched an emergency appeal to aid the Hadassah Hospital’s Jerusalem Crisis Intervention Centre (JCIC), which treats Israeli youngsters traumatised by the latest wave of Palestinian terror attacks against random civilians.

POLICE are investigating what Member for Heffron Ron Hoenig has described as “a gross attack on our community” after five swastikas were sprayed on and around Maroubra Synagogue last weekend.

AUSTRALIAN-BORN Mark Regev arrived in Britain this week to take up his post as Israel’s new Ambassador to the UK.

SOME of Sydney’s most famous bread is now kosher for the first time.