1,800 years Hebrew inscriptions discovered

An 1,800 year old limestone capital dating to the Roman period that is engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions was discovered during the course of restoration and conservation work being carried out in the ancient synagogue and neighbouring Beit Zinati visitor centre at Peqiʽin, in the Western Galilee. Read more

Anti-Semitism on the rise in the U.S.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has warned that antisemitism in the United States was on the rise and called on the authorities on all levels to take appropriate measures to combat it. Read more

Welcome Bibi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Australia. It is not his first visit to the land Down Under but it is his first time as Israel’s prime minister and the first visit a sitting Israeli prime minister since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Read more

Danby responds to Hawke article in the Australian Financial Review

Bob Hawke is a respected former Labor PM (AFR 13.2.2017) but he has incorrectly elevated Israeli settlements in the West Bank as the major barrier to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more

1,500,000 buttons

Melbourne’s Bialik College has achieved its goal of collecting 1.5 million buttons each one representing a child murdered in the Holocaust…a plan devised almost ten years ago. Read more

Kosher Theatresports: more laughs than you could poke a shtick at!

In what was the closest finish ever seen in 22 years of Kosher Theatresports at Sydney’s Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Read more

Netanyahu in Singapore

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited the Singapore Jewish community, at the Maghain Aboth synagogue ahead of tomorrow’s arrival in Sydney. Read more

Netanyahu in Australia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara will arrive in Australia on Wednesday for what will be a historic occasion…the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister will visit Australia. Read more

New Zealand wants data on hate crimes

New Zealand’ s Human Rights Commission has confirmed that there is no need for new hate crime laws but there is a need to collect data when hate crimes take place. Read more

How to become Jewish…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers question on Judaism including why black is associated with bereavement. Read more

A journalist’s blind view of Israel

Fairfax Media’s Chief Political Correspondent Mark Kenny’s opinion piece “The West’s blind support for Israel has done it no favours” appears in both the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The word “blind” in the headline is an apt description of Kenny’s views when it comes to Israel…writes Simon Plosker/Honest Reporting. Read more

Netanyahu: the first visit to these important countries

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the cabinet his visit to Singapore and Australia will the first by an Israeli prime minister “to these countries”. Read more

Trump-Netanyahu meeting shatters ‘Palestine First’ regional peacemaking strategy

The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed Feb. 16 that the two-state solution—whereby an independent, sovereign Palestinian state would be created alongside the state of Israel within agreed and final borders—was, if not quite dead, fast approaching death’s door…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah boasts about hitting Israel’s nuclear facilities

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah took to the Lebanese terror group’s airwaves Thursday to boast about being able to target Israel’s nuclear facilities in Dimona, while chiding Israel for being afraid of Hezbollah’s “might.” Read more

The lion was let out…a music review by FraserBeath McEwing

I enthusiastically joined an almost full house at the Sydney Opera House to hear the embedded grand organ played – as I have occasionally done in the past – but nothing prepared me for uplift and grandeur produced by English-born, Australian-educated organist, Joseph Nolan…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more

Meet Karen Feldman

Karen Feldman’s Mazl is in Yiddish Songs, a journey she has taken over many years…now finally recorded on a CD, remotely collaborated with musical director Adam Starr and musical arranger John Sharpley. A video interview. Read more

Preferences to One Nation in NSW on the cards?

The deputy leader of the NSW  opposition Walt Secord says Premier Gladys Berejiklian has refused to rule out directing preferences to One Nation candidates at the 2019 NSW election. Read more

Danby asks Australian government to condemn Iran’s missile testing

Inserting an advertisement in the Australian Financial Review, Labor Federal MP Michael Danby has continued his campaign for the Australian government to publicly condemn Iran’s repeated firings of ballistic missiles. Read more

MDA delivers 100 blood units and plasma to Peru in order to save Israeli traveller’s life

During the past week, Magen David Adom, with the coordination of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has flown blood units to Lima, Peru in order to save the life of Zohar Katz, an Israeli traveller who is hospitalised there in severe condition. Read more

Bush, Obama, Russia, EU and UN buried under Trump Landslide

President Trump has buried the Bush Roadmap and any lingering hope for the creation of a second Arab State (“the two-state solution”) – in addition to Jordan – in the territory designated under the 1922 Mandate for Palestine…writes David Singer. Read more

Reality in Washington, denial in Ramallah, fantasy in Stockholm and the U.N.

The long anticipated meeting between Israel’s Prime Minister and President Trump has taken place. Fallout has been swift with reactions ranging from shock to pleasant surprise. Read more

Tu B’Shevat: Northern Queensland style

The Cairns Jewish community celebrated the Tu B’Shevat by planting trees for the city’s council. Read more

Is your cup overflowing?…asks Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

In Jewish tradition all important events are marked with a blessing recited over a cup of wine. Read more

Trumping Solutions…writes Emily Gian

Two days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Donald Trump met in Washington for the first time since the latter was inaugurated. The greeting was done in a far warmer manner than similar meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama. Read more

Feintooner cartoon

In his sights this week, is Marine Le Pen and Bernard-Henri Levy… Read more

ADC concerned abut One Nation candidate

The Anti-Defamation Commission has expressed its deep concern about statements made by One Nation candidate Michelle Meyers that the LGBTI community is employing Nazi style tactics in their campaign for marriage equality. Read more

JCCV defends 18C

Jennifer Huppert, President of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has commended the ECAJ and AIJAC in their advocacy in defence of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Act). Read more

Information evening at Montefiore

Sydney’s Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home recently hosted a community information evening at its Randwick Campus in an open forum to help address some of the complex questions it receives in relation to the provision of aged care services.  Read more

Gen17 community survey a blueprint for the future

How important is connectedness to Jewish communal life? What proportion of Jewish Australians is concerned by the level of antisemitism? What proportion of young parents considers the cost of Jewish education prohibitive? Read more

Netanyahu at the White House

At a media conference at The White House,  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told President Donald Trump that “the United States has no better ally than Israel”. Read more

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