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NSW Premier Chris Minns arrives to visit the scene of the Only About Children child care centre on storey Street in Maroubra which was damaged in an antisemitic attack overnight. Maroubra, NSW. January 21, 2025.

Minns says antisemitism doesn’t start with a firebombing. Will his new laws find where it does?

As acts of violence against Sydney’s Jewish community escalate, condemnation isn’t enough. Now the premier is reaching for the law.

  • Michael McGowan

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Tammie Farrugia briefly appeared in Liverpool Local Court on Tuesday.

‘Got any jerry cans?’ Woman faces court over eastern suburbs antisemitic attack

Tammie Farrugia was on the hunt in the weeks before Christmas and posted on the Facebook pages of multiple community groups, police allege.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
The rose-pink facade of Queens Court in Woollahra.

Cafe Cressida

Live la vie en rose at this Parisian-inspired cafe by Phil Wood.

  • Erina Starkey
Detectives from Strike Force Mylor arrest Mohommed Farhat at Sydney Airport on Monday, November 25.

Man ‘targeted Jewish people’ in Sydney’s east, police say

A man accused of an anti-Israel vandalism spree researched the location of a Jewish hospital before the attack, police say.

  • Perry Duffin
The survivor: Louis Wang, when he was an 11-year-old student at Woollahra Public School.

My teacher and I kept this secret for decades: she saved my life

When I slipped during a bushwalk on a school camp, it was a teacher who was there to catch me. I’ve come to realise that our best teachers do that – they watch over us.

  • Louis Wang
Car torched in Woollahra after Wednesday’s antisemitic attack.

Eastern suburbs attack has hallmarks of organised crime gang hit

Police are investigating parallels between the antisemitic attack in Woollahra and the gangland attacks that have dogged the city.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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The clean-up begins on another house that was the target of graffiti.

‘We won’t be intimidated’: In Sydney’s eastern suburbs, there is fear, shock and defiance

Members of Sydney’s eastern suburbs Jewish community have welcomed extra security – but have said they won’t be cowed by antisemitic attacks.

  • Jordan Baker and Catherine Naylor
The scene on Magney St on Wednesday morning.

PM lashes ‘evil’ antisemitic attack as police boost Sydney patrols

Anthony Albanese said attacks like that in Woollahra “diminish us as a nation”, and a “whole of society” effort was needed to stamp them out.

  • Catherine Naylor, Josefine Ganko, Riley Walter, Max Maddison and Penry Buckley
A dozen cars were vandalised.

Masked men flee scene of ‘political’ vandalism attack on cars, eastern suburbs restaurant

Matt Moran’s Chiswick restaurant was graffitied with anti-Israel messages while a ute was set on fire and 10 other cars were damaged.

  • Jessica McSweeney, Penry Buckley and Riley Walter
Sixpenny in Stanmore has two new venues on its horizon.

Two big Good Food Guide winners are joining forces to open a surprising European venue

Chef-owner Dan Puskas of Stanmore fine-diner and Alex Kelly from Baba’s Place will open a new venue serving ‘plenty of old-school Hungarian classics’.

  • Scott Bolles

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