On the other hand
January 12, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
At the moment Israelis are fully occupied in coping with torrential winter downpours, flooded roads and freezing temperatures. Read more
The perverse Western mourning for Qassem Soleimani
January 12, 2020 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The liberal world is aghast. President Donald Trump has done something that repudiates the very rules of nature by which Western progressives live. Read more
Spotify streams antisemitic playlists that praise Hitler, call for ‘gas the Jews’
January 11, 2020 by JNS
The audio-streaming service Spotify has dozens of user-created playlists with titles praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, mocking Holocaust victims, and artwork that features swastikas and white-nationalist hate symbols, The Times of Israel discovered. Read more
Israeli researchers find cigarette smoke damages our mental health
Smoking has a negative effect on your mental health as well as your physical wellbeing, Israeli researches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found. Read more
IDF deploys troops to contend with extreme storm, floods and damage
January 10, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
Extremely stormy weather hit Israel on Wednesday, causing deadly floods and significant damage to infrastructure and property, the latest winter wave to hit the country in the past week. Read more
Elections remain elusive for Palestinians, as Abbas searches for pretexts to postpone them
January 10, 2020 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
In an address to the U.N. General Assembly last September, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged to a sympathetic gathering of world leaders that he would hold parliamentary elections. Read more
Community welcomes Leifer decision
January 10, 2020 by J-Wire News Service
Major community organisations have welcomed media reports that a psychiatrist panel has Malka Leifer found her fit to face an extradition trial. Read more
The funeral of Rabbi Brian Fox: Where were the orthodox rabbis?
Can you help?
January 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Jewish House has provided swift support this week to communities in NSW affected by bushfires, with the donation of 250 blankets to people displaced and sleeping in evacuation centres in NSW. Read more
Will we ever learn?
January 10, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
The long-overdue dispatch to “martyrs paradise” of one of the world’s leading plotters and purveyors of terror has unleashed a not unexpected avalanche of hypocritical hysteria. Read more
1917: a movie review by James Bernardinelli
January 10, 2020 by James Berardinelli - Reelviews
When it comes to 20th-century wars, World War I, the so-called “Great War” or “War to End All Wars,” is poorly represented in motion pictures. Read more
Panel finds alleged sex offender Malka Leifer mentally fit to stand trial
January 10, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
A psychiatric panel in Israel on Thursday decided that alleged sex offender Malka Leifer from Australia is mentally fit to stand trial and has been feigning mental illness. Read more
The Board resends its call for bushfire support
January 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Given the increased and ongoing severity of the fires, the Board of Deputies has established a new campaign with Stand Up for further donations for dispersal to those affected in NSW and elsewhere. Read more
Defence Minister launches campaign to reclaim Area C from illegal Arab construction
January 9, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel has launched a campaign to reclaim land in Judea and Samaria that is under full Israeli control and which the Arabs are trying to take control of through illegal construction, Defence Minister Naftali Bennett declared. Read more
Nahariya: Man drowns in flood while saving mother and child
January 9, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
A man drowned in flooding caused by torrential rains in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya on Wednesday while he was trying to help a mother and child. Read more
Why do Likud voters support Netanyahu? Thank the Supreme Court
January 9, 2020 by Evelyn Gordon - JNS
Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was favoured to win his Likud party’s leadership contest on Dec. 26, the magnitude of his victory surprised many observers. Read more
Iran seeks to end direct clash with America and return to an asymmetrical comfort zone
January 9, 2020 by Yaakov Lappin
The wave of Iranian ballistic missiles that struck two military bases in Iraq early on Wednesday that house U.S. personnel was a clear Iranian attempt to conclude the current phase of escalation with Washington. Read more
Jewish patrol group Shomrim offers emergency phones to New York City synagogues
January 9, 2020 by JNS
The volunteer Jewish neighbourhood watch group Shomrim is offering New York City synagogues special phones that connect instantly to emergency services following a slew of antisemitic incidents in the city. Read more
Netanyahu lauds Soviet immigrants, criticizes harsh remarks by chief rabbi
January 9, 2020 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized as “outrageous and inappropriate” recent comments by Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi about immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Read more
More tributes for Brian Fox
January 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Union for Progressive Judaism and all the members of the Assembly of Rabbis and Cantors of Australia, New Zealand and Asia are mourning the passing of Rabbi Brian Fox. Read more
Chief Rabbi attempts to appease Russian immigrants after calling them ‘enemies of religion’
January 9, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has attempted to appease the Israeli immigrants from the former Soviet Union after accusing them of being “non-Jews” who are “enemies of religion, haters of religion” who were brought to Israel for the weaken the ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral power. Read more
Iran threatens Israel after attacking US base in Iraq
January 8, 2020 by TPS-IL
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) threatened to attack Israel if the US retaliates against its bombing of the US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Iraq early on Wednesday in response to the US’ assassination of IRGC General Qassem Soleimani. Read more
Rose Klas passes away in Sydney at 103
Rose married Henry Klas, the love of her life during the blitz in London in 1940. Read more
Israel Chief Rabbi slammed for calling Russian immigrants ‘non-Jews,’ ‘enemies of religion’
January 8, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef came under harsh criticism after he recently blamed immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who are not Jewish, for the weakening electoral power of the ultra-Orthodox parties. Read more
Israeli arms-control expert Emily Landau dies at age 59
Top Israeli arms-control expert Emily Landau died after a long illness on Monday at the age of 59, announced the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies think tank, where she was a senior research fellow and the head of its Arms Control and Regional Security Program. Read more
Luxury hotel in Negev Desert lands on ‘must-visit’ travel lists for 2020
January 8, 2020 by JNS
A new hotel in Israel’s Negev Desert was included on CNN’s list of the 20 “top hotels to check out in 2020.” Read more
Loss of Soleimani won’t stop Iran’s long-term goal of regional hegemony
January 8, 2020 by Yaakov Lappin
Despite the substantial blow absorbed by Iran due to the Jan. 3 assassination of the notorious Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by U.S. military forces, the regime is set to continue its expansion program to dominate the region, Israeli observers have assessed. Read more
JCCV pledges its support and call for donations
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria stands in solidarity with all Victorians affected by the devastating bushfires across our state and nation. Read more
Rabbi Brian Fox AM
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rabbi Brian D Fox has passed away in Sydney at the age of 76. Read more
Memories of his bushfire firefighter father
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In 1968, David Eley was three years old when his father lost his life battling bushfires. Now he is the chef at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen supervising the food being prepared for today’s firefighters. Read more
