Sunday, December 21, 2025

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.

Ahmad Al-Ahmad remains in hospital

 




Sydney man, a 43 year old Ahmad Al-Ahmad remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand. This hero tackled the Bondi gunman and took his riple, saving multiple lives and after a GoFundMe page was set up for him, he was presented with a cheque for $2,533,000.

There was a false rumour circulating that he was a Christian Mennonite.

Not true, he is a Syrian Muslim.

Matilda Poltavchenko killed in Bondi massacre

 


10 year old Matilda Poltavchenko was murdered on Bondi beach by monsters. Just for being Jewish. Her aunt said: “I don’t know how we survive such grief.” Unending pain.

Mourners gather at Bondi Pavillion