Survey: Most Israelis believe their government is corrupt
January 8, 2020 by JNS
According to the Israel Democracy Institute’s annual survey, which was presented to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, the majority of Israelis believe their leadership is corrupt. Read more
Melbourne community rallies
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s next election must focus on Judea and Samaria – not Bibi
January 8, 2020 by David Singer
Israel’s next election due on 2 March 2020 must focus on the future of Judea and Samaria – not the future of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi). Read more
Jewish community rallies to help bushfires victims
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The president of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Jillian Segal reports on the Australian Jewish community’s efforts to raise funds to assist those whose lives have been affected by the bushfires. Read more
US embassy warns of rocket fire on Israel
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday issued a security alert following “heightened Middle East tensions” in which it warned about “security incidents, including rocket fire” on Israel. Read more
Did Israeli archeologists uncover Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old market on the Pilgrimage Road?
January 7, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israeli archeologists have recently exposed the top of a rare 2,000-year-old measuring table used for liquid items such as wine and olive oil, lending support to the idea that the area at which it was found was a major town square along the Pilgrimage Road. Read more
Leading Israeli think tank warns of potential war with Iran
January 7, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
Israel’s security is currently challenged on multiple fronts, and the government’s present policy could lead to a large-scale war in the region if it is not updated in the near future, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said in its annual report on Monday. Read more
Assassination of Soleimani: AIJAC cautiously optimistic
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has reacted with cautious optimism to the killing by US forces of Iranian arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Read more
New Sydney-funded mathematics centre in the Negev
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney couple Simona and Leon Kamenev have launched a mathematics centre in the Negev in their name. Read more
Jerusalem zoo calls for financial support for bushfires wildlife
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is to purchase veterinary medical supplies for the Animal Rescue Collective for use in the East Gippsland region in Victoria according to its Facebook page. Read more
The multiple faces of antisemitism
January 6, 2020 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Several years ago, in an article for Commentary magazine, I offered a distinction between two kinds of antisemitic mindsets. I named the first one “bierkeller” antisemitism and the second one “bistro” antisemitism, as a way of illustrating the cultural gulf between these two forms. Read more
25,000 people march against hate and fear in New York, saying ‘you’ve got to speak up’
Thousands of marchers assembled in Manhattan Sunday morning, taking to the streets and flooding the Brooklyn Bridge for hours as they crossed into the borough of Brooklyn amid chants of “No Hate, No Fear,” the theme of the assembly in the works for days now. Read more
Rebecca and Josh honoured at WUJS congress in Jerusalem
January 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jan-27 Auckland and Wellington: United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 6, 2020 by J-Wire
New Zealand commemorations… Read more
People’s Choir on the move
January 6, 2020 by Community newsdesk
Melbourne’s THE PEOPLE’S CHOIR is moving from South Caulfield to East Malvern. Read more
When will American Jewry wake up?
January 6, 2020 by Caroline Glick - JNS
Was the machete attack at Rabbi Chaim Rottenburg’s home in Monsey, N.Y. wake-up call enough? Read more
Major Jewish groups mobilise against hate while unsure about its causes
January 6, 2020 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
The recent violent attacks against Jews in Monsey, N.Y., and Jersey City, N.J., have garnered national headlines and have brought further awareness to the sharp rise in antisemitism in the United States, and especially, the New York metropolitan region. Read more
It was time for an administration to break foreign-policy ‘rules’
January 6, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
For 20 years, he had sowed terror and confusion throughout the Middle East with impunity. Read more
Iran withdraws from nuclear deal, plans to enrich uranium ‘without restrictions’
January 6, 2020 by JNS
Iran announced on Sunday that it will enrich uranium “without restrictions” in what would be an apparent move to withdraw from the 2015 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. Read more
Thousands rally in France calling for justice for slain Jewish woman
Thousands of French Jews and others rallied on Sunday throughout the country, including Paris, calling for justice for slain Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old retired physician. Read more
Feintooner
January 6, 2020 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…So Long So Leimani… Read more
Trump threatens to hit 52 ‘important’ Iranian targets if Tehran retaliates
January 6, 2020 by JNS
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States is targeting 52 “important” Iranian sites, representing the 52 U.S. hostages held hostage in Iran for 444 days in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and will strike “very fast and very hard” if Tehran attacks the United States or its assets. Read more
Does Judaism approve of autopsies?
January 6, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
Jan-21 7:30pm SBS-World Movies: Closer to the Moon
January 6, 2020 by J-Wire
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Jan-24 9:25pm SBS-TV: Marry Me, Marry My Family
January 6, 2020 by J-Wire
When Australia legalised same-sex marriages in December 2017, Pagan Druid David and his Jewish partner Darren rushed to set a date. Read more
Two drown in a lift in Tel Aviv flood
January 5, 2020 by TPS-IL
A couple in the 20s drowned on Saturday when torrential rains in Tel Aviv flooded the elevator they were in. Read more
La Boheme: an opera review by Victor Grynberg
January 5, 2020 by Victor Grynberg
A summertime favourite at the Opera House almost every year, La Boheme received that rare Sydney accolade, an almost total standing ovation after this year’s opening night. Read more
On the other hand
January 4, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
Welcome to 2020. Read more
Iran crossed red line with Trump administration; US, Israel, region brace for response
January 4, 2020 by Yaakov Lappin
The American airstrike assassination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad early on Friday follows a major miscalculation on the part of Tehran in the decision to up the ante against the United States. Read more
Jewish and pro-Israel groups, US politicians react to death of IRGC Quds Force Qassem Soleimani
January 4, 2020 by Jackson Richman - JNS
For the most part, Jewish and pro-Israel groups reacted positively to the U.S. elimination of the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Maj. Gen, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq on Thursday. Read more
