‘McKosher’ moniker rejected by Australia Trademark Office
Jewish Journal
May 17, 2016
An Australian lawyer who claims he is of Scottish-Jewish descent has failed in a bid to register the trademark “McKosher.”
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Choice for caregiver: Daughter or Australia’s oldest Holocaust survivor
Jewish Journal
April 11, 2016
Australia’s oldest Holocaust survivor is at the center of a spat between his Filipina caregiver and the Australian government, which has made it clear that if she leaves the country she will not be permitted to return.
Jewish Australians pitch in for victims of massive bush fires
Jewish Journal
January 11, 2016
Two Jewish men from Perth used Facebook to generate support for the victims of fires which destroyed the western Australian town of Yarloop claiming two lives.
Australian church: Jesus was not Palestinian
Jewish Journal
December 28, 2015
Jesus was not Palestinian, a major church denomination in Australia said after an umbrella Jewish group’s challenge to a story that said Christ was born in Palestine.
Historic synagogue in Australian outback vandalized
Jewish Journal
December 1, 2015
A historic synagogue in the Australian outback mining city of Broken Hill was defaced with Nazi and Islamic symbols on its 105th anniversary.
Police storm Sydney cafe to end hostage siege, three dead
Jewish Journal
December 15, 2014
Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded.
Fear and indifference leave West Africa desperate for Ebola staff
Jewish Journal
October 24, 2014
When Australia offered more than $2 million last month to the medical charity leading the fight against Ebola in West Africa, Medecins Sans Frontieres bluntly rejected it.
Israeli rabbi attacked visiting mall in Australia
Jewish Journal
August 25, 2014
A visiting rabbi from Jerusalem was threatened and verbally abused by a gang of youths in a shopping mall in Western Australia on Monday.
Sydney Jewish board: Newspaper cartoon ‘racially vilifies’ Jews
Jewish Journal
July 29, 2014
The umbrella body of the Jewish community in Sydney, Australia, threatened to take action against a major newspaper for publishing a cartoon about Gaza that “racially vilifies” Jews.
P.A. calls on Australia to clarify eastern Jerusalem stance
Jewish Journal
June 9, 2014
The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry summoned Australia’s envoy in the wake of an announcement that Australia will not refer to eastern Jerusalem as “occupied.”
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