Leaders of Canada, Australia and New Zealand jointly call for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza
The leaders, all allies of Israel, join a growing chorus warning against an invasion of Rafah, which is packed with refugees.
The leaders, all allies of Israel, join a growing chorus warning against an invasion of Rafah, which is packed with refugees.
A Jewish couple in New Zealand decided to perform a ritual circumcision on their son themselves, after determining that the country’s travel restrictions would make getting a mohel to fly in for the procedure impossible. Noam and Elisheva Fogel waited five months to conduct the circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah or a bris, which…
SYDNEY (JTA) — New Zealand’s Minister for Immigration has written to the Israeli ambassador in Wellington apologizing personally for a map on a government website that showed a “Palestine,” but not Israel. “I can assure you that the fact sheet did not reflect New Zealand Government policy,” Minister Iain Lees-Galloway said in the letter to Amb. Dr….
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — Immigration New Zealand, an official government website, published a fact sheet with a map of the Middle East that showed a “Palestine,” but not Israel. Following a barrage of complaints on social media, the web page was removed, though screenshots remain. The Israel Institute of New Zealand called for a retraction…
Ukraine has become the first country whose president and prime minister are both Jewish — besides Israel, of course. Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish Ukrainian actor, was elected president of the country over the weekend and will soon serve with Volodymyr Groysman, who has been prime minister since 2016. It’s an interesting first that brought up the…
(JTA) — A Muslim community leader in New Zealand dismissed claims by the head of the country’s biggest mosque that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the killing of 50 Muslims at two Christchurch mosques. Mustafa Farouk, president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand, referred in his statement Thursday to remarks made…
The Muslim congregants of a Manhattan mosque closed after a fire were not without a place to pray on Friday. “Allah had a better plan,” the imam said, after a nearby synagogue opened its doors to them. The tense situation turned into a beautiful moment for both the Islamic Society of Mid-Manhattan and Central Synagogue,…
(JTA) — A co-leader of the Women’s March shared a post blaming the “American Jewish Establishment” for its role in the attacks on two New Zealand mosques, and then apologized. Bob Bland on March 17 shared a post from Jesse Rabinowitz, a social justice advocate, who wrote that: “The same language and hate that folks…
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