The predictable liberal response to Pence
January 31, 2018 by Isi Leibler
Listening to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s address to the Knesset was a euphoric experience…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Jews and Poles don’t need to be enemies…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org
January 31, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Jews and Poles spent most of the first half of the 20th century at each other’s throats. Must they continue on the same destructive path as we head further into the 21st century? Read more
Ireland postpones controversial bill banning trade with settlements after Israel issues protest
January 31, 2018 by Agencies
The Irish Senate postponed a vote on a controversial bill that would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements just hours after the Israeli government protested the measure. Read more
Israel’s finance minister to meet Palestinian prime minister to boost economic cooperation
Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon will meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in an effort to boost economic cooperation, according to Israeli media reports. Read more
Why polls on a Palestinian state are a mirage
January 31, 2018 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
Ever wonder why polls consistently show that a large portion of the Israeli public supports creating a Palestinian state?…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org. Read more
WJC leader meets the Pope
January 31, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder met with Pope Francis at the Vatican yesterday together with a delegation of senior WJC leaders from around the world, and thanked him for his dedication to Middle East peace, for speaking out against antisemitism, and strengthening Jewish-Catholic relations. Read more
The CJC launches tree project
January 31, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Commonwealth Jewish Council has launched a Commonwealth wide initiative of Jewish communities to support the adoption in every Commonwealth country of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy (QCC) project by the Commonwealth Summit in April. Read more
The Sydney Jewish Museum remembers and recalls the Holocaust
January 31, 2018 by Community newsdesk
The Sydney Jewish Museum together with the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants (AAJHSD) has commemorated U.N. International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. Read more
Permanent exhibition on the trial of Adolf Eichmann
January 31, 2018 by Lydia Weitzman
A new permanent exhibition at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum has opened in a kibbutz in Western Galilee entitled Facing the Glass Booth: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Read more
NIF launches emergency fund for asylum seekers in Israel
January 30, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The New Israel Fund (NIF) Australia announced it is launching a $20,000 emergency fund for asylum seekers currently living in Israel. Read more
Arabs are torch-bearers for Nazi antisemitism
January 30, 2018 by Lyn Julius - JNS.org
On the day that the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, the U.K. liberal newspaper The Guardian declared in an editorial : “The Arabs, meanwhile, cannot be blamed for feeling that Europe’s blood debt to the Jews was paid with what they see as their territory.” writes Lyn Julius/JNS.org. Read more
Israel cannot deny the reality that BDS is in decline
January 30, 2018 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Recently, I’ve been nursing some concerns about the way the Israeli government is handling its response to the BDS campaign against the Jewish state, and with it the wider challenges of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the Western world…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more
Netanyahu meets Putin
January 30, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Read more
Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy
January 30, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date, which commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is the one most of the world uses to remember the Shoah, even if Israel and most Jewish communities primarily employ another date a week after Passover in the Hebrew calendar for Yom HaShoah. Read more
Seen at the Australian of Year ceremony
January 29, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Victorian Senior Australian of the Year Professor Paul Zimmet was nominated as the national Senior Australian of the Year… Read more
Bill Shorten: history’s most atrocious crime
January 29, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Australia’s opposition leader Bill Shorten reflects on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Creating strong foundations with Shabbat playgroup
January 29, 2018 by Leanne Shelton
Our Jewish sense of identity starts from a young age, and Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel’s Shabbat Playgroup aims to create those strong foundations early on in life. Read more
A spirit to raise your spirts
January 29, 2018 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Why do Chasidim drink whiskey on a Yahrzeit?….ask the rabbi. Read more
1,000 in a road race in Bologna to mark IHRD
January 29, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
More than 1,000 people joined together in Bologna on Sunday for a remembrance road race passing through Jewish historical sites, including those of Holocaust remembrance, as part of a series of events in Italy marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Proposed Polish law “historical obfuscation”
January 29, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalise suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and an attack on democracy.” Read more
Feintooner
January 29, 2018 by Feintooner
John Kerry’s advice to Abbas…this week’s cartoon from Feintooner. Read more
Secord’s bipartisan support for Sydney Jewish Museum’s Shoah education programs
January 28, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord has thrown his bi-partisan support behind a State Government pledge to work with the Sydney Jewish Museum on its Holocaust awareness and education programs. Read more
Jerusalem revisited
January 28, 2018 by Ron Weiser
Quite a chain of events have been crystallising over the past few weeks indeed…writes Ron Weiser. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull’s message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28, 2018 by J-Wire
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tweeted his IHRD message. Read more
WJC praises Donald Trump’s tribute to the 6,000,000
January 28, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has praised US President Donald Trump’s “poignant and respectful” tribute to the six million Jews who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis during World War II, and underscored the critical nature of Holocaust education and remembrance. Read more
Why is there opposition to a Qatar investigation?
January 28, 2018 by Alan Dershowitz
In response to my recent op-ed about Qatar in The Hill titled “Why is Qatar being blockaded and isolated,” several critics have deliberately distorted my views…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more
Tefillin wrap
January 28, 2018 by Community newsdesk
On Sunday February 4, Emanuel Synagogue will be participating in the World Wide Wrap from 9:00am. Read more
A stellar line up for UIA Victoria campaign
January 28, 2018 by Community newsdesk
In this very special year of celebrating Israel’s 70th birthday, UIA Victoria will host a stellar line up for its 2018 campaign. Read more
Remains of Earliest Modern Human Outside of Africa Unearthed in Israel
January 28, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A jawbone complete with teeth recently discovered at Israel’s Misliya cave has now been dated to 177,000-194,000 years ago. The finding indicates that modern humans were present in the Levant at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. Read more
Trump readies to dump PLO for Jordan-Israel negotiations
January 28, 2018 by David Singer
President Trump and America’s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley – virtually within hours of each other – have laid the groundwork for Jordan to replace the PLO as Israel’s negotiating partner under President Bush’s 2003 Roadmap – endorsed by the United Nations, European Union, and Russia – and Bush’s 2004 Congress-endorsed commitments to Israel…writes David Singer. Read more
