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Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh President and CEO Jeff Finkelstein addressed the Sydney Jewish community during a three-day mission six months after the Bondi Beach shooting. (Photo provided by Jeff Finkelstein)
June 9, 2026, 10:01 am
Pittsburgh representatives visit Bondi Beach 6 months after terror attack
“All you want is never again,” she said. “Never again should any family have to go through this kind of trauma and tragedy.”
By David Rullo
Vigil for victims of the Bondi Beach shooting at the Dunedin Cenotaph in New Zealand (Photo by Andykatib, via Wikimedia Commons)
May 4, 2026, 12:12 pm
Fearing it would cause hostility, Sydney cancels controversial ‘Globalize the intifada’ forum
Event organized by anti-Israel group, condemned by political and Jewish leaders, canceled by mayor; was set to challenge legal efforts to ban public use of the phrase
By Zev Stub
Community members gather outside of Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach, Sydney, following the deadly shooting on a Hanukkah party, Dec. 15, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/Getty Images)
April 28, 2026, 9:21 am
Concert to benefit Bondi Beach victims canceled after Greek choir refuses to sing with Jews
“There’s a bit of antisemitism in the Greek community,” said the Greek choir’s director.
By Philissa Cramer
The Brisbane Synagogue in Queensland, Australia. (Google Streetview)
February 24, 2026, 6:52 pm
Truck ramming at Australian synagogue prompts hate crime charges as antisemitism commission opens
“At a time of catastrophic antisemitism, as we saw at Bondi, this inevitably deepens fear and insecurity,” said Levi Wolff.
By Grace Gilson
A general view of the Jewish community center, Chabad of Bondi, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 15, 2025. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)
December 15, 2025, 2:43 pm
Gunman in Bondi Chanukah massacre linked to Islamic State
Naveed Akram, 24, who committed the mass shooting with his 50-year-old father, had been on the radar of Australian authorities.
By Joshua Marks
Five victims who have been identified of the 15 killed in the deadly terror shooting targeting a Jewish event at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. Clockwise from top left: Dan Elkayam; Alex Kleytman; Rabbi Eli Schlanger; Rabbi Yaakov Halevi Levitan; Reuven Morrison (social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law, via The Times of Israel)
December 14, 2025, 7:57 pm
Community reacts to Australia Chanukah shooting
Local reaction to the deadliest attack of Jews in the Diaspora since the Oct. 27, 2018, Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
By David Rullo
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, at right, participates in his son's bris several weeks before his murder at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, 2025. (Facebook)
December 14, 2025, 4:25 pm
These are the victims of the Bondi Beach Chanukah celebration shooting in Sydney
The dead included a rabbi serving the popular beach community.
By Philissa Cramer and Asaf Elia-Shalev
Sen. John Fetterman lights the menorah, sans ladder in 2024 at B'nai Emunoh Chabad (Photo by David Rullo)
December 14, 2025, 12:05 pm
Targeted Chanukah lighting underscores defiant Chabad mission to set globe aglow
Over 50 years after the first public menorah lighting in Philadelphia, annual tradition has spread to some 15,000 locales worldwide from Australia to Uzbekistan
By Rossella Tercatin
Two shooters at Bondi Beach. (Photo: Screenshot X, via Australian Jewish News)
December 14, 2025, 8:31 am
Mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaves 15 dead
A Chanukah event at a park across the road from the iconic Bondi Beach appears to have been targeted by gunmen.
By AJN Staff
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney pose before the start of the G7 summit, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, June 15, 2025. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/WPA Pool/Getty Images, via JNS)
September 21, 2025, 12:13 pm
UK, Canada, Australia recognize ‘State of Palestine’
The three nations' prime ministers stress commitment to two-state solution.
By JNS Staff
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media after he visited the damaged Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 10, 2024. An arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne forced congregants to flee as flames engulfed the building. Albanese condemned the incident as an antisemitic act, emphasizing that such violence at a place of worship is unacceptable in Australia and labelling the event an act of terrorism. (Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)
August 26, 2025, 10:19 am
Australia accuses Iran of directing antisemitic attacks, expels ambassador
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said police had come to “a deeply disturbing conclusion” about Iranian involvement in local violence against Jewish targets.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. (Credit: Australian Government)
August 11, 2025, 7:25 am
Australia to recognize ‘Palestine’ at UN in September
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said his country would consider whether to do the same.
By JNS Staff
Police officers are seen collecting evidence at an East Melbourne, Australia, synagogue that was the scene of an arson attack, July 4, 2025. (Alex Zucco/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
July 7, 2025, 9:55 am
Melbourne protesters chant ‘Death to the IDF’ days after attacks on synagogue, Israeli restaurant
The chant also featured in the storming of the restaurant Miznon on Friday night.
By Philissa Cramer
Rabbi Dovid Gutnick speaks to the media next to the burnt front entrance of the East Melbourne Synagogue in Melbourne on July 6, 2025. (Photo by William West/AFP via Getty Images via JNS)
July 6, 2025, 9:12 am
Man charged over synagogue arson in Melbourne
Netanyahu urged Australia to act, vowing Israel’s support for the Jewish community against hate crimes.
By JNS
Berysz Aurbach, center, at his 104th birthday party in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Moshe Aurbach)
April 20, 2025, 10:59 pm
104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising
Some 35,000 survivors made their way down under post-WWII. Berysz Aurbach is a rare firsthand witness of the Jews’ revolt against their Nazi oppressors on Passover of 1943
By Nomi Kaltmann
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