#CookingWithUIA Launches with Israeli Flavour

UIA launched its first online cooking event recently with Israeli celebrity chef and television personality, Moshe Segev. Read more

Despite travel bans, nine Jewish immigrants from Ukraine arrive in Israel

Skies have shut down around the world and global travel bans were imposed by governments due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but Aliyah to Israel is continuing as another nine Jewish Olim (immigrants) from Ukraine arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport early on Monday morning on a flight arranged by the Jewish Agency for Israel and sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ). Read more

The Prime Minister’s message for Yom Ha’azmaut

Yom Ha’atzmaut is usually a time of celebration and reflection—a moment to recall the promise of freedom, the strength of hope, and the emergence of a proud and potent nation. Read more

An AIJAC online discussion with Dr Einat Wilf

Rather than a classical unity government between two ideologically opposed parties, Israel’s National Emergency Government “reflects a broad consensus that has emerged in Israeli society in the last decade or two,” at least when it comes to the conflict with the Palestinians. Read more

Jordan must not socially distance from Judea and Samaria’s Arabs

Formation of a National Unity Government in Israel has focused attention on the future of Judea and Samaria – 4% of the territory of the Mandate for Palestine – in which sovereignty still remains unallocated between Jews and Arabs. Read more

BINA has something for your time and your mind

While the world is slowing down Sydney’s BINA is gaining speed producing programs online for the entire Australasian communities. Read more

On the other hand

At a time when we are facing an invisible enemy and everyone is in lockdown the commemorations of Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron plus the celebration of Yom Ha’Atzmaut remind us that the Jewish People have faced worse crises in the past and have successfully overcome them. Read more

Lest We Forget

On Friday, Senator Dean Smith, Liberal Senator for Western Australia and the President of Jewish Community Council of WA Joan Hillman laid wreaths on behalf of the Jewish Community in Western Australia at the Jewish War Memorial in Perth ahead of ANZAC Day. Read more

Danon confronts Palestinian representative during UN Security Council

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and his Palestinian counterpart sparred during a U.N. Security Council discussion on Thursday about Israel’s aid to the Palestinian Authority during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide outbreak. Read more

The return of populist antisemitism

To the lexicon of new terminology introduced by the coronavirus pandemic, we can add the latest entry: “Zoombombing,” or the practice of hijacking private videoconferencing calls on the Internet by unwanted intruders. Read more

Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern in a video conference with Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a video conference on Friday hosted by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, with prominent world leaders on the corona pandemic including Australia’s Scott Morrison and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern. Read more

From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and moral collapse

One hundred years ago this Sunday, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I signed a resolution at San Remo. Next week, Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut, the 72nd anniversary of the state’s declaration of independence. Read more

Is it wrong to let Israel make decisions for itself?

In principle, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s answer to a question about Israel’s new coalition government seems unexceptionable. Read more

Pompeo: Annexation of territory in Judea, Samaria an ‘Israeli decision’

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that it was up to Israel whether or not to annex parts of the West Bank, and that discussions on the issue are taking place through private channels with the Israeli government. Read more

An ANZAC Shabbat

Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann from Melbourne ‘s The Ark Centre asks the Jewish community to think of those who gave their lives for Australia and New Zealand. Read more

COVID-19 and hate crime in Australia

The Australian Hate Crime Network (AHCN) has called for greater vigilance in countering racism and other forms of bigotry that is erupting amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

Israel and the Diaspora

As we approach Israel’s independence day, the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora remains ambivalent. Read more

Time to “get over it?”

Yom Hashoah, the annual commemoration of the Holocaust, takes place every year in Israel and elsewhere immediately after Passover. Read more

Data on the South African Jewish population

A major new research study published this week estimates that South Africa’s Jewish population now stands at 52,300, with four in five living in either Johannesburg or Cape Town. Read more

‘Dangerous and defiant activity’: Israel condemns Iran’s satellite launch, warns of nuclear missile threat

Israel “strongly” condemned Iran’s attempt to launch a military satellite by its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and warned that the Islamic Republic is seeking to develop missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. Read more

Technology that transforms tap water into a powerful disinfectant against viruses, including coronavirus

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have developed new methodologies to produce powerful, environmentally-friendly disinfectants, based on tap water, that can eliminate bacteria and kill viruses, including microbes from the coronavirus family. Read more

Prayer written after 9/11 attacks updated for COVID-19 crisis

A prayer composed by Israel Prize laureate Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) after the September 11 attacks in the US for world deliverance was updated by his son to address the global challenges the world is now facing with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read more

How COVID-19 has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories

It’s easy to see how the coronavirus pandemic has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories. Read more

Can IsraeI’s ‘haredi’ leadership learn from their mistakes made during coronavirus outbreak?

With some ultra-Orthodox (haredi) communities in Israel having been under complete lockdown due to the high rate of COVID-19 infections, a major controversy has been raging in Israel over whether the leaders of these communities were initially aware of the dangers of the virus and, if they were, whether they intentionally encouraged their followers to flout the government-imposed lockdown rules. Read more

UK Jewish newspaper ‘back to business’ after anonymous bidder saves it from folding

The Jewish News in the United Kingdom announced on Wednesday that it “is back” after stating earlier this month that, along with The Jewish Chronicle, it would fold as a result of both the state of print newspapers, coupled with the coronavirus pandemic, which has negatively impacted sales and revenue. Read more

Major airlines to revive flights to Israel beginning in May

United Airlines, Air Canada and British Airways have announced that they are restarting flights to Israel, Israeli financial paper Globes reported.
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Major antisemitic incidents rise some 18 per cent in 2019, according to new report

The number of major antisemitic incidents worldwide rose by 18 per cent in 2019 over the previous year, according to a newly released report from Tel Aviv University, the Kantor Centre for the Study of European Jewry and the European Jewish Congress. Read more

A Yom Hashoah gift from Dymocks

National bookseller Dymocks has acted to a request from The Executive Council of Australian Jewry by removing non-academic editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Read more

Eight months after deadly attack, mother of terror victim gives birth to girl

Eight months after Rina Shnerb was murdered in a bombing attack, her mother Shira gave birth to a baby daughter. Read more

Yizkor on Yom Hashoah

On Yom HaShoah, as sirens blared across Israel, the men and women of Magen David Adom stood still with all of Israel as they remembered all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. Read more

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