The Australian Jewish News

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The Australian Jewish News
First page of first issue of The Hebrew Standard of Australasia, 1 November 1895.pdf
First page of first issue of The Hebrew Standard of Australasia, 1 November 1895
Type Weekly newspaper
Founded1 November 1895
Website https://www.australianjewishnews.com/

The Australian Jewish News (AJN) is a newspaper published in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [1] Since 2019, it has been a local partner of The Times of Israel . [2]

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History

The AJN is descended from The Hebrew Standard of Australasia, which was first published on 1 November 1895 in Sydney by founding editor Alfred Harris. [3] In 1953, John Shaiak purchased the newspaper and changed its name to The Australian Jewish Times (AJT). [3] [4] In 1987, Richard Pratt bought the AJT and merged it with the Melbourne-based Australian Jewish News. From 1990, the newspaper has been published weekly nationally as The Australian Jewish News. [1]

The newspaper celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1995 and launched an online edition in 2001. In July 2007, Robert Magid became the paper's new publisher. [5]

In October 2019, the AJN became the seventh "local partner" of The Times of Israel . It is only the second local partner outside the United States, after the UK's Jewish News . The newspaper's digital presence is now integrated with The Times of Israel and the other local partners. [2]

The paper played a role in backing Abraham Accords relations between Arab countries and Israel, regularly featuring pro-Israel Arab figures such as Emirati influencer Amjad Taha. [6]

Digitisation

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia has been digitised from 1895 to 1953 and is available online through Trove via the National Library of Australia. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 The Australian Jewish news, Australian Jewish Press, 1989, retrieved 4 December 2016
  2. 1 2 "Australian Jewish News becomes Times of Israel's seventh local partner". 15 October 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  3. 1 2 "History of the Australian Jewish News in print and online". The Australian Jewish News. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  4. ↑ The Australian Jewish times, Charter Press, 1953, ISSN   0725-4385
  5. ↑ "About". The Australian Jewish News. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  6. ↑ Adno, Carly. "'It's an embrace of violence, terrorism'". www.australianjewishnews.com. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "The Hebrew Standard of Australasia (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1953)". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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