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For the latest news from Jerusalem with SBS Correspondent Peta Jones Pellach...Find out about the escalation at the Gaza border and about the new Oleh, the richest man in Israel...

For the latest news from the Australian Jewish community....Did you know that the former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has been strongly criticized by a NSW Labor leader and Jewish leaders for his statement during a Sky News interview that Israel should be charged with “war crimes” over the shootings at the border with Gaza? find out the latest news from the Jewish community with Shane Desiatnik!

For the latest news from the Australian Jewish community....Did you know that the former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has been strongly criticized by a NSW Labor leader and Jewish leaders for his statement during a Sky News interview that Israel should be charged with “war crimes” over the shootings at the border with Gaza? find out the latest news from the Jewish community with Shane Desiatnik!

The former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has been strongly criticised by a NSW Labor leader and Jewish leaders for his statement during a Sky News interview that Israel should be charged with “war crimes” over the shootings at the border with Gaza, and that the Labor Party National Conference will inevitable pass a resolution that a future Labor Government recognise a Palestinian State with or without an agreement with Israel.

The Victorian Parliament and the Jewish community held its annual Yom Haatzmaut tribute and a lechaim toast to Israel on the 70th Anniversary of Israel’s independence and heard the Labor Premier Daniel Andrews and opposition Liberal leader Matthew Guy recall their recent visits to Israel nad admiration and praise for the Jewish State, whilst the Israeli ambassador to Australia Mark Sofer boasted of his county’s great technological and other achievements in just 70 years of existance.

Australian Jews expressed their disappointment over yet another two week delay in the extradition court hearing in Israel of Malka Leifer, the former Adass-Israel school principal wanted in Victoria to stand trial over 74 accusations of sexual abuse of pupils at the school before her flight to Israel in 2008.

The Australian Union of Jewish Students protested and demanded an apology for the publishing in the Sydney University student newspaper Honi Soit, a front-page photo of the young Lebanese woman Hamida al-Taher, holding a rifle in the photo and an editorial article about her suicide bombing, which killed 50 people including Israeli and Southern Lebanese soldiers, whilst denigrating the Israeli winner of Eurovision, as a rep of oppressors of Palestinians and not even a real country.

Meet this extraordinary couple, a young Rabbi and his wife , Rabbi Yossi and Malki Rodal and find out about their adventures around Australia.... SBS Recently on the 23rd May screened a fascinating documentary, The Outback Rabbis, Which can be accessed on SBS on Demand.

Orthodox Chabad Rabbis hit the Aussie bush on a road trip like no other…

Dressed in their traditional black suits and fedora hats, the Rabbis embark on a journey, travelling in a campervan, searching for lost Jews at the Australian outback.

Form lush islands and rain-forest in North Queensland to Uluru and the Red Center in search of Jews in the bush. SBS Hebrew correspondent in Melbourne, Amit Rehak, attended the premier screening of this documentary and spoke to Rabbi Yossi and Malki Rodal, Rabbi Ari Rubin as well as to the documentary maker, Danny Ben Moshe.

SBS Recently on the 23rd May screened a fascinating documentary, The Outback Rabbis, Which can be accessed on SBS on Demand. Orthodox Chabad Rabbis hit the Aussie bush on a road trip like no other…Dressed in their traditional black suits and fedora hats, the Rabbis embark on a journey, travelling in a camper van, searching for lost Jews at the Australian outback.

Form lush islands and rainforest in North Queensland to Uluru and the Red Centre in search of Jews in the bush. SBS Hebrew correspondent in Melbourne, Amit Rehak, attended the premier screening of this documentary and spoke to Rabbi Yossi and Malki Rodal, Rabbi Ari Rubin as well as to the documentary maker, Danny Ben Moshe.

Israel’s Security Cabinet, a forum of senior ministers headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun holding its weekly meetings in a secure underground bunker in Jerusalem

Have you heard about the 2,500 years old coin that was found in Israel from ancient kingdom of Yehuda? Don't miss the latest Jerusalem report with Peta Jones Pellach

For the latest news in the Australian Jewish community with Shane Desiatnik from the AJN...A 26 year old Jewish woman was allegedly stabbed in the neck and face and her 22 year old brother allegedly atacked in Nth Caulfield on the eve of the Shavuot festival. 

The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop defended Australia’s decision to vote with the USA at the UN’s Human Rights Council, against a resolution calling for an investigation of Israel’s actions regarding the shootings of Palestinians on the border with Gaza.

The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop defended Australia’s decision to vote with the USA at the UN’s Human Rights Council, against a resolution calling for an investigation of Israel’s actions regarding the shootings of Palestinians on the border with Gaza.

Australian Jews expressed their disappointment over yet another two week delay in the extradition court hearing in Israel of Malka Leifer, the former Adass-Israel school principal wanted in Victoria to stand trial over 74 accusations of sexual abuse of pupils at the school before her flight to Israel in 2008.

A 26 year old Jewish woman was stabbed in the neck and face and her 22 year old brother beaten over the head by a man in Nth Caulfield on the eve of the Shavuot festival, an attack which the police has as yet not treated as anti-Semitic in nature.