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Nomi Kaltmann

Nomi Kaltmann

Nomi Kaltmann reports for The Times of Israel from Melbourne.
Heshy Adelist cleans antisemitic graffiti in Melbourne, Australia, in this undated photo taken after October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
May 30, 2026, 7:55 am
With Australia awash in antisemitism, a Jewish cleaner scrubs off Melbourne’s swastikas for free
Heshy Adelist says calls surged after Oct. 7, leading him to spend 1,000-plus hours removing hateful graffiti and send multiple submissions to Australia’s antisemitism commission
By Nomi Kaltmann
May 21, 2026, 1:30 pm
Daily Briefing May 21 – Royal Commission: Antisemitism soars across Australia
Melbourne-based writer Nomi Kaltmann weighs in from Melbourne on Australia’s emotional, ongoing Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
By Gabriella Jacobs and Nomi Kaltmann
Witness Stefanie Schwartz speaks to the media after the first hearing block of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in Sydney on May 4, 2026. (GEORGE CHAN / AFP)
May 8, 2026, 4:01 pm
Giving chilling testimony, Australian Jews unsure antisemitism inquiry can bring change
Royal commission launched after Bondi massacre hears accounts of harassment, threats and fear as Jewish community fears unprecedented post-Oct. 7 surge in hate could be here to stay
By Nomi Kaltmann
Sheina Gutnick with her father, Reuven Morrison, who was murdered in the Bondi Beach terror attack on December 15, 2025, in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Gutnick)
March 31, 2026, 4:57 pm
Reviewing massacre footage, Bondi hero’s daughter discovers more of her dad’s bravery
Reuven Morrison was killed fighting the terrorists who murdered 15 at a Hanukkah party in Sydney. As his family marks his favorite holiday without him for the first time, they find a small comfort
By Nomi Kaltmann
Pro-Palestinian protesters take part in a demonstration against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia in Sydney on February 9, 2026. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)
February 10, 2026, 1:29 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 10 – Explosive anti-Israel protests mar Herzog’s Australia tour
Nomi Kaltmann weighs in from Melbourne on Canberra’s impotent actions following the Bondi Beach massacre of 15, and how Israel’s president is stirring up strong, but mixed, emotions
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Nomi Kaltmann
Pallbearers carry out a coffin after the funeral of Boris and Sofia Gurman, who were killed while trying to thwart the Bondi Beach terror shooting, at the Sydney Chevra Kadisha on December 19, 2025. (Saeed Khan/AFP)
February 7, 2026, 5:02 am
Will Herzog’s Australia visit and new legislation assuage Jews’ fears after Bondi attack?
After lackluster response to skyrocketing antisemitism following Oct. 7, Canberra now pivots. But calls for Israeli president’s arrest show anti-Zionism is deeply entrenched
By Nomi Kaltmann
Berysz Aurbach, center, at his 104th birthday party in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Moshe Aurbach)
April 21, 2025, 2:22 am
104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising
Some 35,000 survivors made their way down under post-WWII. Berysz Aurbach is a rare firsthand witness of the Jews’ revolt against their Nazi oppressors on Passover of 1943
By Nomi Kaltmann
Nova Peris at Kibbutz Be’eri outside the home of slain peace activist Vivian Silver, March 2024. (Courtesy)
November 23, 2024, 9:38 am
Why one of Australia’s best-known Aboriginal activists is taking a stand on Israel
Nova Peris is an Olympic gold medalist, former parliamentarian, and well-known advocate for her people’s equality – and she’s bucking many on the left to support the Jewish state
By Nomi Kaltmann
Activists demonstrate on behalf of the Hamas-held Israeli hostages on International Women's Day, March 8, 2024. (Courtesy of J-United)
August 22, 2024, 1:20 am
Aussie Jews step up pro-Israel activism as rebel anti-Zionist group raises its profile
Post-Oct. 7, most of the Jewish community was caught off guard by a lack of public support, which it has made up for with grassroots and institutional efforts to aid the Jewish state
By Nomi Kaltmann
An early 2024 pro-Israel rally in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Lillian Kline)
March 16, 2024, 3:28 am
Post-Oct. 7 antisemitism upends an Australian Jewish community with Holocaust history
Accused of being nefarious lobbyists, Aussie Jews are shaken by increasingly bold displays of hatred amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
By Nomi Kaltmann
Artifacts from the Kraus family, who survived the Holocaust, on display at the Queensland Holocaust Museum in Brisbane, Australia, June 2023. (Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Center)
January 27, 2024, 1:12 am
In Australia, a new Holocaust museum doubles down on its mission after Oct. 7
Because many of the Queensland Holocaust Museum’s visitors have never met a Jew, its strategy of outreach takes on added importance in its quest to educate on racial tolerance
By Nomi Kaltmann
Anti-Israel protesters rally outside the Sydney Opera House, October 9, 2023. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images via JTA)
October 13, 2023, 2:04 am
Sydney government apologizes for pro-Palestine protest that had ‘gas the Jews’ chants
Police are investigating a separate incident in Melbourne in which a group of men allegedly said they were ‘on the hunt to kill Jews’
By Nomi Kaltmann and Gabe Friedman
Rabbi Mendel Zarchi helps Howard Rother lay tefillin at his cotton farm in Cecil Plains, in the Australian state of Queensland. (Courtesy of Rabbi Menachem Aron via JTA)
September 15, 2023, 4:34 pm
How roving rabbis help the few Jews of rural Australia celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Known for its religious outreach, the Chabad movement often sets up outposts in towns with small Jewish populations, but this effort in the outback takes the (honey) cake
By Nomi Kaltmann
Israel's former chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shakes hands with Holocaust survivor Felix Goldschmied at the Launceston Synagogue in Launceston, Australia, July 12, 2023. (Mishka Gora via JTA)
July 23, 2023, 4:34 pm
In remote Tasmania, Jews welcome a rare visit from a former Israeli chief rabbi
The first such visit in 72 years is a boost for the small but growing community established by Jewish convicts in 1804 and considered far-flung even by Australian standards
By Nomi Kaltmann
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