We will never forget, never forgive.

 

Dr Ruth Gottesman's billion dollar donation

 

At 93, Dr. Ruth Gottesman donated her late husband David Gottesman's $1 billion fortune to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, making tuition free forever for all students.

Loosening federal regulations on marijuana

 

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order recommending loosening the federal regulations on marijuana, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025.

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Sydney, Australia

St Mary’s Cathedral illuminated with a menorah during a light show in tribute to victims of the Bondi attack.

Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

New name for John F Kennedy Center

 

People walk along the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after Karoline Leavitt announced that the Kennedy Center board decided to rename the institution the Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Local volunteer lifeguards unite for 1 minute silence at Bondi for those lost on Sunday

 

 

Soon after 8am yesterday (Saturday), volunteer lifeguards from two local surf lifesaving clubs lined the shore of Bondi beach and observed one minute silence for those lost last Sunday.

Three Sydney Heroes

 

Bondi beach hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed with the doctors looking after him at the hospital in Sydney. And… The doctors are *also* Syrian! Tamer Al-Kahil from Homs. Anas Natfaji from Aleppo. *Three* heroes.