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''The Australian Jewish News'' (''AJN'') is a newspaper published in
Darlinghurst Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the City of Sydney. ...
, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Since 2019 it has been a local partner of '' The Times of Israel''.


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. In 1953 John Shaiak purchased the newspaper and changed its name to ''The Australian Jewish Times (AJT)''. 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''. 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. 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 ''Jewish News'' is a free weekly newspaper, established in 1997, that serves the Jewish communities of Greater London – specifically Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Essex. In 2002, it won the '' Press Gazette'' free newspaper of the year. In ...
''. The newspaper's digital presence is now integrated with ''The Times of Israel'' and the other local partners.


Digitisation

''The Hebrew Standard of Australasia'' has been digitised from 1895 to 1953 and is available online through
Trove Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text document ...
via the National Library of Australia.


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