I am a Zionist
January 31, 2019 by Perry Trotter
Israel’s deputy ambassador to New Zealand Kasa Bainesay Harbor tells why she is a Zionist. Read more
100 year-old Holocaust survivor reflects on the duty to remember
January 31, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Holocaust survivor Lena Goldstein (nee Midler) has turned 100 today in Sydney. Read more
An exciting UIA Australia campaign
January 31, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
With only a few weeks to go, UIA Australia is gearing up for another impressive campaign season. Read more
American Jewish leaders: Where are you?
January 31, 2019 by Isi Leibler
Israel is once again facing major new international military and political challenges. Yet despite our dysfunctional political system and the chaos associated with the impending elections, we have never been as militarily secure as we are today. Read more
Watchdog accuses Amnesty International of antisemitic campaign against Israel’s tourism industry
January 31, 2019 by JNS
Amnesty International published “The Tourism Industry and Israeli Settlements” on Jan. 29, a report alleging that “the Israeli government has political and ideological reasons for developing a tourism industry in occupied East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank.” Read more
Founder of Gift of Life passes
January 30, 2019 by Roz Tarszisz
After battling illness for several years, founder of The Gift of Life in Australia Shula Endrey-Walder has passed away in Sydney.
Rabbi victim of road rage
January 30, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A Melbourne rabbi has videoed an antisemitic attack launched by the male passenger of a car stopped alongside his vehicle on the Nepean Highway.
Ambassador Jones
January 30, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jeremy Jones, the Director of International and of Community Affairs of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, was honoured as one of the “high achieving and proud Australians” sent “to inspire pride” to local communities across Australia over the Australia day period. Read more
Amnesty International’s campaign against Israeli settlements
January 30, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The World Jewish Congress is disconcerted and disheartened by Amnesty International’s newly launched campaign calling on the world’s leading digital tourism companies – Trip Advisor, Expedia, booking.com, and Airbnb – to stop listing in Israeli settlements, and to governments to bring in regulation to prevent these businesses from operating with or in these communities. Read more
Dear Mr Wolff
January 30, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Melbourne grandfather David Wolff, shocked by the recent story of Sydney’s Moriah College’s refusing a graduate’s child because the child’s grandmother had been converted to Judaism at the pluralistic Emanuel Synagogue, wrote a letter to the school’s president. Former Moriah president Robert Goot responds… Read more
Israeli aid delegation to Brazil locates and recovers bodies in the dam collapse disaster
January 30, 2019 by Lydia Weitzman
Within hours of arriving at the site of the dam collapse disaster in Brazil, the Israeli aid delegation began to successfully locate and recover several bodies from the thick sludge. Read more
Hebron: The city without a solution
January 30, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision not to extend the mandate of an international observer group in Hebron is likely to be denounced as yet another obstacle to peace, as well as being politically motivated. Read more
Polish Olympian refuses to coach Malaysian swim team due to anti-Israel policy
January 30, 2019 by Agencies
Four-time Polish Olympic swimmer Bart Kizierowski has rejected an offer to coach Malaysia’s national swimming team, saying that he would not train the Malaysians after they refused to admit Israeli athletes into the country. Read more
Group raises alarm over UNRWA’s anti-Israel incitement within its Jerusalem schools
January 30, 2019 by Josh Hasten - JNS
Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighbourhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that they will one day destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state. Read more
70 years of mateship with Israel
January 29, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Today marks 70 years since Australia formalised diplomatic relations with Israel, a wonderful milestone in the deep and shared history between the two nations according to the Chair of the Australia-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group, Senator Eric Abetz. Read more
Holocaust denial, purposeful dementia and Israel
January 29, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Memory loss can be a terrible disease. In the best case, it affects our recall of the minor details of an event, but in the worst case, such as with Alzheimer’s disease, it can lead to complete distortion of the past. Read more
Danon at UN on Holocaust remembrance: ‘Apathy is the enemy of humanity’
January 29, 2019 by JNS
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon warned the world body on Monday morning in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day about the rise of antisemitism the need to fight it. Read more
Knesset scraps delegation to Ireland over pro-BDS bill
January 29, 2019 by JNS
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein scrapped a Knesset trip to Ireland on Monday due to an Irish bill that would prohibit commercial activity connected to areas that were outside Israel’s pre-1967 territory. Read more
Europe’s Jews vs. Israel
January 29, 2019 by Daniel Pipes - JNS.org
Note the contrast: When Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister, recently visited Jerusalem, which he hailed as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him a “great friend of Israel.” Back home, however, Italy’s liberal Jews denounced Salvini for, among other things, his Roma policy and his alleged “racism against foreigners and migrants.” Read more
Ask the rabbi
January 29, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Can you be unethical in business and yet keep a kosher home? Ask the rabbi… Read more
Israel sends aid to Brazil after dam collapse disaster
January 28, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The IDF has dispatched an IDF humanitarian aid delegation to Brazil following the dam collapse at Brumadinho in Brazil, in which hundreds of people are reported missing. Read more
Poll shows many British adults don’t believe the Holocaust occurred
Released in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new poll commissioned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust found that one in 20 British adults do not believe that the Holocaust occurred, and another 12 per cent think the magnitude of the genocide was exaggerated. Read more
Holocaust documenters in race against time, before memories fade
January 28, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial is engaged in a feverish race against time, a race in which they know that every day counts – a race to document the names and lives of as many Holocaust victims as possible before their memories die away with the Holocaust survivors who were carrying them. Read more
L-E-V: an experience in dance
January 28, 2019 by J-Wire
L-E-V Dance Company, renowned as an innovative leader in the thriving Israeli contemporary dance scene, will appear at Sydney’s Opera House between Jan-31 and Feb-03. Read more
How not to remember the Holocaust
January 28, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
While Israel and Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust with a Yom Hashoah on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (which this year falls on May 2), the rest of the world does so on Jan. 27, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. Read more
Irish bill advances to criminalise commercial activity with Israel
January 28, 2019 by JNS
The Irish parliament advanced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit commercial activity connected to areas that were outside Israel’s pre-1967 territory. Read more
Israeli governments approves the exportation of medical cannabis
January 28, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
An inter-ministerial committee in Israel has recommended being in favour of exporting medical cannabis as any medical product that patients receive according to labels and dosages and buy it in pharmacies under strict standards. Read more
NZ Defence Minister Mark meets Netanyahu
January 28, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has met with New Zealand Defense Minister Ron Mark at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem. Read more
Burundi, a nation in crisis, receiving Jewish assistance
January 28, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Philip Feinstein has visited the camps in some of the countries in which Burundian refugees are taking shelter: Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. Read more
Feintooner
January 28, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…The Jig is Up. Read more
