Going abroad
October 8, 2019 by Fraser Beath McEwing
J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…today on the road – Sicilian style. Read more
Meet Avi Gilboa
October 8, 2019 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Avi Gilboa is a Board Member of the Melbourne Jewish Charity Fund, which has for over 50 years worked to address poverty as a grass-roots volunteer-run organization. He talks with Henry Greener. Read more
Muslim Imams Council concerned of spawning prejudice
October 7, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel acts to revoke BDS Founder’s Residency
October 7, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel will act quickly to rescind the residency status attained by BDS founder Omar Barghouti, Minister of Interior
announced Sunday evening. Read more
PA official: ‘Abbas succumbed to pressure’ and ended financial standoff between Israel and PA
October 7, 2019 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
The financial crisis between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), in which the Authority refused to receive any funds from Israel over its cut of the amount paid in salaries to terrorists and their families, ended over the weekend following a meeting between the PA’s Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh and Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon. Read more
Vast 5,000-year-old city, one of the first and largest in Near East, uncovered in Israel
October 7, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
A massive 5,000-years-old city, the largest and the most central ever uncovered in Israel, which had been built on top of a 7,000-year-old town and which “dramatically changes what we know about the character of the period and the beginning of urbanization in Israel,” was chanced upon by Israeli construction workers who were developing roads to the city of Harish in northern Israel. Read more
100 new immigrants from 45 countries convene at Western Wall for pre-Yom Kippur prayers
October 7, 2019 by TPS-IL
Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog and 100 Olim (immigrants) from 45 countries convened on Saturday at the Kotel, Western Wall, to recite the Selichot, special prayers recited by Jews worldwide during the days before and between Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Read more
Jewish death-row inmate receives stay of execution
October 7, 2019 by Jackson Richman - JNS
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a stay of execution for a Jewish death-row inmate who was scheduled to die on Oct. 10 for being part of “The Texas Seven” that escaped from prison almost 19 years ago and killed a police officer after they held up a sporting goods store, following allegations that he was sentenced by a judge who made antisemitic remarks and has a history of bigotry. Read more
Day 3 of Netanyahu pre-indictment hearings gets underway
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team arrived at the Justice Ministry on Sunday for the third day of the premier’s pre-indictment hearings. Read more
‘Different Perspectives on Israel: leaders discussion in Auckland
October 7, 2019 by J-Wire
Dr David Cumin (Israel Institute of New Zealand) v John Minto (anti-Israel protestor) faced off recently in their ‘Different Perspectives on Israel’ discussion held in Auckland.
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Feintooner
October 7, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Genocide-Light Read more
Israeli FM: Israel working on non-aggression pact with Arab States
October 6, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel is in the process of working on a non-aggression pact with several Arab states in the Middle East to face the common threat emanating from Iran, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz revealed Saturday night. Read more
School antisemitic attacks
October 6, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Since the reported attacks on two Jewish schoolboys in Melbourne, the headmaster of one of the schools has written to the parents of all the students, Liberal MP David Southwick in whose electorate the attacks took place and the Australian National Imams Council has posted a notice on Facebook to its 31,000 followers. Read more
Netanyahu and Liberman must stop Israel’s third election in a year
October 6, 2019 by David Singer
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Liberman have finally met – albeit for just one hour – to discuss the possibility of the 63 votes they control being converted into Israel’s next Government. Read more
On the other hand
October 6, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
The Government is still in a state of limbo with politicians failing to agree on a majority coalition. Read more
The sorry tale of two photographs
October 5, 2019 by J-Wire
As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from the first decade of Nazi power: Jews forced onto their hands and knees to clean the sidewalks; a young Jewish woman fleeing from a crowd in a blind panic, her dress ripped open; Jewish schoolchildren compelled to wear a yellow Star of David as a badge of shame. Read more
Whatever happened to the Palestinian ‘diplomatic tsunami’?
October 5, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It was only eight years ago that supporters of Israel were trembling at the possibility that support for the Jewish state would soon be washed away by a “diplomatic tsunami” that would be unleashed by the Palestinians at the United Nations. Read more
Alternative Jordans?
October 5, 2019 by Martin Sherman - Mida via JNS
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” — Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery Read more
UK University, College Union apologize for Holocaust email omitting Jewish victims
Social media users called the omission “shocking” and “sickening,” with some suggesting that the inclusion of “non-Jewish Poles” showed that the Union deliberately decided who to include and leave out. Read more
Going abroad
October 5, 2019 by Fraser McEwing
J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…today Palermo. Read more
Antisemitism by schoolchildren requires pro-active action
October 4, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has spoken about children as young five being attacked because of their Jewishness in Melbourne. Read more
Longest coral reef survey to date reveals major changes in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
October 4, 2019 by Elana Oberlander
Published in the journal Nature Communications by researchers at Bar-Ilan University and Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Israel, and the University of Queensland in Australia, the study concludes that since 1928 intertidal communities have experienced major phase-shifts as a result of local and global environmental change, leaving few signs that reefs will return to their initial state in the near future. Read more
Jewish leaders outraged on latest Leifer setback
October 4, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jewish community leaders in Australia have expressed outrage at the latest setbacks in the bid to extradite Malka Leifer from Israel to Australia to face 74 charges involving allegations that she sexually abused at least eight pupils under care while she was principal of the Adass Israel school in Melbourne. Read more
Saluting one of the last living heroes of Israel’s fight for independence
October 4, 2019 by Deborah Fineblum
Nothing really prepares you for the Smoky smile and the twinkle in an eye undimmed by nearly a century on earth. Read more
UK to release ‘pay to slay’ audits after Freedom of Information request
October 4, 2019 by JNS
The branch of the British government responsible for administering overseas aid will disclose audit reports regarding aid money allegedly used to pay salaries to convicted terrorists, after abandoning its appeal against a ruling by U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham. Read more
Leifer remains in jail
October 4, 2019 by J-Wire Staff
Malka Leifer will have to wait a few days until a Supreme Court judge announces her decision on the appeal by the prosecution against the former Melbourne school principal being granted bail allowing her to leave prison and being placed in house arrest. Read more
Decision time
October 4, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for making decisions. Read more
Why do bad things happen
October 4, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
For thousands of years, we have been asking why God lets bad things happen to good people and good things happen to very bad ones. Read more
Netanyahu’s fate and the future of Israeli democracy
October 4, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
This week a legal proceeding is taking place that may have as much if not more to do with the future of Israel’s government as the stalemated negotiations to form a new governing coalition. Read more
Going abroad
October 4, 2019 by Fraser Beath McEwing
J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…the jewels of Faberge. Read more
