Meet Shira Nussdorf
January 23, 2018 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Shira Nussdorf talks to Henry Greener on all three segments about her shtick as a community building journey Read more
An Israeli Carmen
January 23, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
After a sell-out season in 2016, John Bell’s vibrant production of Bizet’s Carmen, featuring gypsy girls and bull-fighting boys in eye-popping colours, returns to the Sydney Opera House next month. Read more
Master of all the facts
January 23, 2018 by Henry Benjamin
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair described Sydney-born broadcaster Ed Doolan as “the master of the facts”. Ed Doolan, a well-loved Sydney personality in his youth, passed away last week at 76. Read more
Is there a religious revival?…ask the rabbi
January 22, 2018 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple give his point of review. Read more
Sophie Caplan: 1933-2018
January 22, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Australia has lost Holocaust survivor and historian Sophie Caplan who died last week in Sydney’s Montefiore Home. Read more
NYT: US embassy could relocate to Jerusalem in 2019
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week predicted the U.S. Embassy in Israel would be relocated to Jerusalem within a year, President Donald Trump countered that estimate. The New York Times now reports that the White House is indeed pushing full steam ahead with the embassy’s relocation. Read more
Israel’s annual antisemitism report: ‘Mein Kampf’ now German bestseller
January 22, 2018 by Agencies
Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett has presented the Jewish state’s annual report on global antisemitism to the Israeli government. The report demonstrated that antisemitism is on the rise in several notable areas, particularly in Europe. Read more
State memorial service for Barry Cohen
January 22, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition leader Bill Shorten will speak at a State Memorial for former Labor minister Barry Cohen. Read more
Feintooner
January 22, 2018 by Feintooner
Ministry of Truth…this week’s cartoon. Read more
Victoria Government House Open Day
January 22, 2018 by Community newsdesk
Bring along a picnic and enjoy the grounds and surrounds of Victoria’s historic Government House as part of an Open Day on Australia Day, Friday, 26 January 2018. Read more
PLO ditches Trump, undermines future UN and EU support…writes David Singer
January 21, 2018 by David Singer
PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s extraordinary two-hour-long anti-American and Jew-hating diatribe delivered on January 14 must inevitably see… Read more
Why honouring the ‘Founders’ still matters…writes Ric Benjamin
January 21, 2018 by Ric Benjamin
Our citizenship saga around the intent of Section 44 in the Australian Constitution and the on-going saga about gun control in the US around the wording of the 2nd Amendment to their Constitution have opened up a debate about how we should deal with our founding legal documents. Read more
On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner
January 20, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
While the rest of the world continues to obsess over what we may or may not do Israel gets on with innovating, assisting and making the planet a better place. Read more
Israel’s embassy in Amman back to normal
January 19, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel and Jordan have reached an agreement following the incident in Amman involving an Israeli diplomat on July 23, 2017 and the incident in which a Jordanian judge was killed on March 10, 2014. Read more
Tunnel vision…writes Michael Kuttner
January 19, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
Tunnels have been in the news recently. Read more
Chelsea Football Club joins World Jewish Congress #WeRemember Campaign to Combat Anti-Semitism
January 19, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Chelsea Football Club has joined the World Jewish Congress’ #WeRemember campaign, as part of its own long-term educational initiative to raise awareness of the persisting phenomenon of antisemitism in sports. Read more
PM Netanyahu and Moshe Holtzberg Visit Chabad House in Mumbai
January 19, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited the Chabad House in Mumbai accompanying 11-yr-old Moshe Holtzberg, who lost his parents in the 26 November 2008 terrorist attack on the building. Read more
IDF carries out manhunt in Jenin to apprehend terrorists behind drive-by shooting
January 19, 2018 by Agencies
The IDF carried out a manhunt in the Palestinian-controlled city of Jenin on Wednesday night to apprehend suspects in the drive-by shooting terror attack that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevach of the Havat Gilad settlement last week. Read more
Trump says embassy will not move to Jerusalem within one year
January 19, 2018 by Agencies
President Donald Trump said he does not expect the U.S. Embassy in Israel to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem within a year, contradicting comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. Read more
A rare opportunity to see one of Sydney’s top chefs in action
January 19, 2018 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue is providing an exclusive opportunity to see award-winning chef, Michael Rantissi demonstrate some of the delicious dishes from his new book and taste the results. Read more
AAJS conference in Perth
January 19, 2018 by Community newsdesk
The Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) will hold its 30th annual conference at Curtin University next month in Perth. Read more
Holocaust Survivors Anthem from Vilnius, Lithuania
January 19, 2018 by Eli Rabinowitz
With the UN Holocaust Remembrance Day only 10 days away, each day offers new recordings of The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem, Zog Nit Keynmol. Read more
UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Liberation of Auschwitz commemoration
January 18, 2018 by Community newsdesk
The Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants together with the Sydney Jewish Museum invite you to commemorate UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Liberation of Auschwitz. Read more
Ugly slogan at Sydney station
January 18, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The pristine white walls of Sydney’s Martin Place station have been daubed with a message calling for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to be “1st in the oven”. Read more
471 new apartments for Holocaust survivors
January 18, 2018 by Avi Mayer
Minister of Construction and Housing Yoav Gallant and Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky have laid the cornerstone of the largest housing project for senior citizens ever constructed in Israel. Read more
Netanyahu says $500 million Spike missile deal with India is back on
January 18, 2018 by Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel’s $500 million Spike missile deal with India is back on after the pact’s reported cancellation last November. Read more
Netanyahu predicts that US embassy will move to Jerusalem within a year
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an address in India that he expects the American embassy that is currently in Tel Aviv to move to Jerusalem within the coming year, as part of a policy announcement last December by President Donald Trump. Read more
PA’s Abbas continues anti-Trump rhetoric, says Jerusalem is the key to peace or war
January 18, 2018 by Agencies
Just days after a fiery speech in which Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas called peace efforts by President Donald Trump “a slap in the face” and cursed the Trump administration by declaring, “May your house be destroyed,” Abbas continued his rhetoric at a conference focused on Jerusalem at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Read more
The Shape of Water – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
January 17, 2018 by Roz Tarszisz
The story of an amphibious man-like creature is not new. While film making has come a long way since Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) there is still a strong sense of deja vu in this latest offering from Guillermo Del Toro who wrote the story, directed and co-wrote the script.
Washington’s paradigm shift on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
January 17, 2018 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
The Trump administration’s approach to the Palestinians represents what Mideast experts and Israel advocates are describing as a paradigm shift in Washington, D.C.—acknowledging that Palestinian rejectionism lies at the root of the Arab-Israeli conflict, rather than reflexively blaming the Jewish state for the impasse in negotiations. Read more
