Three headstones were vandalized in the Jewish section of a cemetery in Dunedin, New Zealand. A swastika was painted on one headstone and two others were broken, the Otago Daily Times reported. The vandalism was reported to police on Saturday. “I would prefer to think that it wasn’t [a racially motivated attack], and that it…
A 4-year-old boy wearing a kipah was slapped on his head as he walked home from a Chabad house in Auckland, New Zealand. The boy was said to be traumatized last week by the apparent anti-Semitic attack, which was witnessed by his mother, according to a report Sunday in the New Zealand Herald. The alleged…
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, the son of a Jewish refugee from Europe, was returned for a third term as leader of the South Pacific island nation. Key, whose mother Ruth Lazar escaped Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, won an emphatic victory Saturday, enabling him to form a government without relying on…
Israel’s Foreign Ministry rejected New Zealand’s new ambassador because he also is the envoy to the Palestinian Authority. Jonathan Curr had been scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem this week to present his credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The trip was canceled, Haaretz reported. The prior two New Zealand ambassadors to Israel also were accredited…
A small community in New Zealand is mourning the loss of a Kiwi-born Israeli soldier killed in action in Gaza. Staff Sergeant Guy Boyland, 21, was killed Friday trying to raze tunnels in Gaza. He was laid to rest at his home Sunday on Kibbutz Ginosar in the Galilee. Boyland was born in Taupo, a…
Kiosks selling Dead Sea beauty products were removed from all Westfield malls in New Zealand in the wake of a TV investigation exposing its sales practices on elderly and vulnerable shoppers. Kiosks in several malls in New Zealand were closed down as a result of an expose on the “cynical” methods used by young Israeli…
A kiosk selling Dead Sea cosmetics was evicted from a mall in Auckland, New Zealand after an elderly woman said she was coerced into buying $5,000 in wrinkle creams. The Dead Sea Spa kiosk staffed by young Israelis was evicted from the Lynnmall shopping center on Wednesday, Campbell Live, a public affairs program on New…
(Haaretz) — In one of the farthest corners of the Diaspora, Zionism has fallen “out of fashion” to the detriment of the “struggling” Jewish community. That’s the verdict of community elder David Zwartz, 77, a former president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, former honorary Israeli consul and the only Jewish Kiwi to receive the…
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