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Zelda Bakery

This bakery is a finalist for best bread and pastries in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

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Salad sandwich at Rippers Ripponlea.

Suburban sandwiches: Three spots upping their area’s sanger game (and the must order)

Including a railway station gathering spot, a community cafe in lush surrounds and a deli giving spanakopita the toastie treatment.

  • Tomas Telegramma and Dani Valent
CCTV shows the blue sedan used in the attack on the Ripponlea synagogue.

Hooded figures, an underworld getaway car: Police allege link between synagogue, nightclub fires

Detectives have released never-before-seen footage and reveal they believe the same getaway car used in a Melbourne nightclub firebombing was used in the attack on a Ripponlea synagogue.

  • Sherryn Groch, Cassandra Morgan and Alexander Darling
Chef-restaurateur Ben Shewry at Attica in 2024.
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Ben Shewry no longer consents to Attica being reviewed. Here’s why we did it anyway

Trailblazing Attica is still a world-class restaurant, and too important for us to ignore. But critic Besha Rodell finds the whole experience a little odd.

  • Besha Rodell
A heritage home in Ripponlea.

My suburb is one of Melbourne’s tiniest. I want to make it bigger

The heart of my suburb was ailing when we moved here – until something changed. Now my neighbours want to gatekeep it from new residents.

  • Tom Hird
Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann at the Pillars of Light celebration at Federation Square on Wednesday evening.

Festival of Lights much needed for Melbourne’s Jewish community

Jewish leaders say it has been a tough year but the arrival of Hanukkah – on the same day as Christmas – is helping to lift spirits.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Adass Israel Synagogue on Tuesday.

Finger-pointing and blame: The ugly attempts to gain votes from a terror event

For some reason, the most urgent issue after the Ripponlea synagogue firebombing was to declare a terrorist attack, even before investigators finished examining the crime scene.

  • John Silvester
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Rabbi Schlomo Kohn at the Adass Israel synagogue on Tuesday.

‘Those who struck against these sacred walls will be brought to justice’: My message to Jewish community

You are braver than the cowards that perpetrated this evil. You are stronger than the hatred that spurred them on. And you are not alone.

  • Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese visits the Adass Israel synagogue

Albanese, in a yarmulke, is all but swallowed in an election-like scrum

The PM has visited the burnt-out remains of the Adass Israel synagogue, surrounded by a scrum of media and congregants.

  • Tony Wright
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia would comply with international law.

Wong hits back at Netanyahu, links Israel to China, Russia

Penny Wong says Australia expects Israel to comply with international law in the same way it expects authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China to do so.

  • Matthew Knott and Josefine Ganko

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