Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and the Israel Embassy webinar
May 28, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
The Embassy of Israel and the Israel Trade Commission invite you to join a discussion with a panel of leaders from Israel’s innovation eco-system. Read more
Report: Mossad chief’s covert connections instrumental in war on COVID-19
May 28, 2020 by JNS
Israeli intelligence agency Mossad director Yossi Cohen used his international connections—some covert—to procure massive amounts of medical equipment and protective gear as part of the government’s efforts to compete in the global bidding war for supplies to contain COVID-19, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Read more
President Rivlin calls Scott Morrison on the Leifer affair
May 27, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has spoken with Prime Minister Scott Morrison following the court decision that Malka Leifer is fit to stand trial. Read more
Leaders of Jewish organisations from around the world discuss enduring COVID-19
May 27, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Over 30 leaders of major Jewish organizations from around the world participated on Tuesday in a roundtable forum established by the Jewish Agency for Israel and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to assess the devastating implications the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had on Jewish communities worldwide and the necessary steps to address their pressing needs. Read more
Extending Shul closure following COVID-19 cases within Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs
May 27, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Yesterday, positive findings of Coronavirus took place at two schools in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs including Moriah College. Read more
In conversation with Mark Sofer
May 27, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue’s Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins is to broadcast his conversation with Israel’s ambassador to Australia Mark Sofer on Zoom. Read more
Back to the future: making penpals
While many Holocaust survivors are feeling isolated right now, the Sydney Jewish Museum has launched a Pen Pal Project to connect students and Holocaust survivors with one another through letter-writing during these uncertain times. Read more
Back in business
May 27, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s The Great Synagogue closed its doors in March for the first time in 142 years. Read more
MPs praise the sisters’ fight to extradite Malka Leifer
May 27, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The three sisters who are alleged victims of Malka Leifer fronted up this morning to address media. Read more
ECAJ supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart
May 27, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
On 27 May 2020, Australia marks the third anniversary of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a statement made by Indigenous Australians directly to the Australian people as a whole. Read more
Covid-19 and the plague of online antisemitism
May 27, 2020 by Julie Nathan
The Covid-19 virus has produced sickness and death, turmoil and disruption, around the world. It is a silent stalker of human fragility. But it has brought with it another virus, an older but virile plague, one with no known cure, and no limits to the amount of dead bodies it can produce. This plague flares up whenever the society faces uncomfortable changes. This is the plague of antisemitism – the longest-standing, most pervasive, and most genocidal hatred known to humanity. Read more
6-year-old on stroll discovers rare Canaanite artifact
May 27, 2020 by JNS
An Israeli 6-year-old out on a hike with his family before the coronavirus lockdown in March is credited with discovering a very rare artifact attributed to the Canaanites 3,500 years ago. Read more
Australia welcomes Leifer decision
May 27, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australian Government has welcomed the decision in Israel that Malka Leifer is fit to stand trial and be extradited to Australia. Read more
Alleged sex offender Malka Leifer found fit to stand trail, will be extradited to Australia
Alleged sex offender Malka Leifer is mentally fit to stand trial and can be extradited to face trial in her country, a Jerusalem court ruled today. Read more
At War With COVID-19
Despite heightened tensions between countries over the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we face a common enemy incapable of negotiation. Read more
Moriah College shut down
May 26, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Moriah College has sent all students home following a confirmation that a student had tested positive for COVID-19. Read more
Netanyahu presumed innocent in Israel’s court of public opinion
May 26, 2020 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
Israeli media and their left-wing anti-Netanyahu allies have been anticipating for years the moment Benjamin Netanyahu would be dragged into a courtroom. Unable to beat Israel’s longest-serving prime minister at the polls, many have looked to a politically left-leaning legal system to get him out of office. Read more
Court rules Netanyahu exempt from appearance at next hearing
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not have to attend the next session of his trial on July 19, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Sunday. Read more
Corona in Israel: no new victims in four days
May 25, 2020 by TPS
The number of active Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Israel continued to drop on Monday, and no victims have died of the virus in the past four days. Read more
Special prayer held in israel for wellbeing of world Jewry
May 25, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
A unique prayer session was held on Sunday at the ancient site of the Tabernacle in Shiloh for the wellbeing and safeguarding of world Jewry, which is still combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read more
Jun-7 5:25 pm SBS-TV: Chris Tarrant: Railways of the Holocaust
May 25, 2020 by J-Wire
Chris Tarrant takes a journey through WWII as he finds out how the most horrendous and coldly calculated genocide in human history was made possible by the railways. In WWI, railways became vital to modern warfare, the supply lines without which the bloodshed of the Western Front would have ground to a halt.
Fiction: The Ido
May 25, 2020 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
Let me tell you about a different kind of hotel no tell. The Ido, pronounced e-DOH, in downtown Jerusalem is a charming nook that doesn’t pop up on any hotel review website or generate any buzz, on or offline. Read more
Say Toda!
May 25, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
Magen David Adom invites to thank coronavirus workers in Israel. Read more
Mystical soup
May 25, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
Join the upcoming zoom Mystical Soup event and help feed the hungry whilst you learn to make healthy Thai pumpkin soup with Our Big Kitchen’s chef. Read more
Never Again? hold Germany accountable
May 25, 2020 by David Bedein
Germany, which presents itself as a democratic power, is now the leading donor state of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which services the Palestinian refugees of 1948 was… and their descendants. Read more
Abbas’s empty, worn-out threats
May 25, 2020 by Caroline Glick - JNS
Last week, Palestinian Authority and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced that the P.A. is renouncing the peace deals it signed with Israel along with its agreements with the United States. Read more
Want to know about Shavuot?
May 25, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
Feintooner
May 25, 2020 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Some of my best friends… Read more
PLO opens door to Jordan returning to Judea and Samaria
May 25, 2020 by David Singer
Advancing an end to the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict has become a miraculous possibility since the formation of an Israeli Government of National Unity just seven days ago. Read more
Netanyahu to face corruption charges in court
May 24, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attend a Jerusalem court today to face corruption charges in three cases, becoming the first sitting prime minister in Israel’s history to be tried before a three-judge panel. Read more
