2 days ago · Jewish students in Sydney returned to school on Friday with a heightened security presence, days after police said they foiled a planned antisemitic attack in the city using a trailer filled with ...

2 days ago · It is an initiative of Will Nemesh, the Jewish mayor of Waverley in Sydney’s east, Ned Mannoun, a Muslim Mayor from Liverpool and Darcy Byrne, the mayor of Inner West Council and a close ally of ...

4 days ago · Renewed claims about coordination by foreign interests. Since the Israel-Hamas war began in 2023, targeted arson — including at a child care center — and graffiti attacks have soared in Sydney and Melbourne, home to 85% of the country’s Jewish population. One person has been physically hurt — a worshipper who suffered burns in a fire that was set at a Melbourne synagogue in December.

3 days ago · NSW Police are investigating after a Jewish school in Sydney's eastern suburbs was spray painted with antisemitic graffiti overnight. The Mount Sinai College and a property next door in Maroubra ...

2 days ago · NSW Police say they are actively patrolling places of significance to Jewish people, including places of worship and schools. Jewish community members say they are on edge but defiant after a spate of antisemitic attacks, vandalism and the discovery of a caravan packed with explosives in Sydney.

Jews can be found throughout the Greater Sydney area, although approximately two-thirds reside in the eastern suburbs, from Vaucluse, through Randwick, Bondi and Double Bay, to Darlinghurst-East Sydney, where many of the service organisations are located.

Jan 21, 2025 · NSW Police set up Strike Force Pearl to investigate the string of anti-Semitic incidents, which Acting NSW Police Commissioner Peter Thurtell said has been granted additional resources. The attacks have mainly occurred in Sydney's …

Jan 7, 2025 · Police are investigating the vandalism. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the graffiti, spray-painted in black letters on the vehicle overnight the Queens Park neighborhood in...

Jan 11, 2025 · A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti, police said on Saturday, a day after the antisemitic vandalism of a separate synagogue in the New South Wales state capital.

4 days ago · Arrests related to the operation were initially made by members of Strike Force Pearl, a police task force launched last month to combat antisemitic violence in Sydney. In recent weeks, local Jews ...