Apr-11 Sydney: Salute To The World’s Great Divas
March 26, 2021 by J-Wire
Dahlia Dior is celebrating a lifetime of travelling and performing around the globe with a powerhouse show highlighting Divas. Read more
Leaders warn Israel is ‘losing Judea and Samaria’ following exposure of PA grand plan to occupy Area C
March 25, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel is losing the battle for the control of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) grand plan to overtake it illegally, leaders from Judea and Samaria and the political system warned, following an expose by the Ad Kan organization on the strategic threat. Read more
‘Obsessive and biased’: Israel slams UN Human Rights Council following vote on anti-Israel items
March 25, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s diplomatic leadership had harsh words for the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following several resolutions it adopted against Israel. Read more
Israel on edge awaiting final elections results
March 25, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The counting of the votes cast by Israel’s citizens for the 24th Knesset continued through Wednesday night, as the country expectantly awaits the final results and as the current political deadlock persists. Read more
Over 50% of Israel’s citizens are fully vaccinated against COVID-19
March 25, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s campaign to vaccinate its citizens against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) celebrated a significant milestone Thursday after some 50% received the second Pfizer-developed vaccine, becoming fully inoculated. Read more
$18.7 million worldwide to help survivors vaccinated
March 25, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A Holocaust Survivor Vaccine Assistance Program (HSVAP) provided by the German government to support Holocaust survivors getting survivors to vaccination locations worldwide. Read more
In fourth consecutive campaign, Netanyahu secures largest-ever electoral lead
March 25, 2021 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
The fourth attempt in two years to unseat embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have failed once again, with Netanyahu securing his largest-ever electoral victory over his rivals. Exit polls show Netanyahu’s Likud receiving a strong 30 to 31 mandates. The tally is at least 12 seats higher than the next largest party: the left-wing Yesh Atid led by Yair Lapid. Read more
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum finds new names, stories from Nazi death camp
Archivist Ewa Bazan at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum discovered new names and stories linked to the German Nazi concentration and death camp. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: ‘’Finding the Viscount Canterbury’’
In January 1870 Harriet Schlossman purchased, for £2, a mining right for Claim No 163, Lot 12, Lower Paddock on the Berlin Goldfield, near Rheola Victoria, on behalf of her husband, Solomon Schlossman and son-in-law John Davis. Read more
The Global Water Crisis, Climate Change, and Coronavirus – From Disaster to Opportunity
March 25, 2021 by Ran Yaakoby
The coronavirus pandemic, which has plagued our world for over a year now, has placed the issues of water scarcity and accessibility squarely on the global agenda writes *Ran Yaakoby. Read more
Israeli election: First thoughts
March 24, 2021 by Ron Weiser
Whilst this is being written immediately post-election with incomplete results, there are a few things we can say. Read more
IAF hits Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rocket attack
March 24, 2021 by TPS
The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of strikes against Hamas terror targets on Tuesday night in response to a rocket attack on Israel earlier in the evening. Read more
Israel awaits final results of elections, Netanyahu appears to be in the lead
March 24, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
After a night in which the constantly updating exit polls fluctuated, Israeli citizens are awaiting the results of the elections to see who will lead them in the coming four years. Read more
Jessica tackles the floods
March 24, 2021 by Henry Benjamin
Are the actions of NZ super fund antisemitic?
March 24, 2021 by Perry Trotter
Antisemitism has been dubbed The Longest Hatred and is as old as the Jewish people. It has shown itself remarkably adaptable, able to morph and repeatedly reinvent itself across time and culture. Read more
Initial Israeli exit polls point Netanyahu toward sixth term as prime minister
March 24, 2021 by JNS
Initial exit polls from Israel’s national election on Tuesday indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with support from his right-wing bloc—if the Yamina Party is included—would have a narrow Knesset majority, giving the Israeli leader an unprecedented sixth term in office. Read more
A Bravery Medal for Stuart Romm
March 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Stuart Romm has been awarded the Bravery Award by Governor-General David Hurley. Read more
Three innovative Israeli-developed nanosatellites launched into space
March 23, 2021 by TPS
Three nanosatellites developed by Israeli scientists at the Technion in Haifa that will perform autonomous formation flights were launched into orbit on Monday on the Soyuz 2 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Read more
Israel Aerospace Industries successfully tests extended range Barak defence system
March 23, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s Aerospace Industries (IAI) successfully rested its Extended Range (ER) Barak Defense System, it stated Monday. Read more
Ahead of elections, Netanyahu places cornerstone for new Samaria neighbourhood
March 23, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Israeli community of Revava in Samaria on Monday to participate in the unveiling of a new neighbourhood, a day before Israel goes to vote. Read more
Decluttering makes money for Jewish House
March 23, 2021 by Community newsdesk
Fashion Forward has hosted its second event at the JH Kids premises in Sydney’s Bondi Junction. Read more
Chabad ACT rabbi welcomes new Australians
March 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Support on the ECAJ stand on asylum-seekers
March 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Assembly of Rabbis and Cantors (ARC) and the Union for Progressive Judaism (UPJ) have affirmed the policy of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) concerning the issue of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Read more
UIA Victoria’s Super Sunday supports the people of Israel
March 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA Victoria held its Super Sunday fundraising campaign recently raising much-needed funds to support aliyah. Read more
Maccabi and Bialik swim school
March 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Maccabi Victoria has launched Maccabi Aquatics – a full service swim school – to commence operating in Term 4, 2021. Read more
Different hands, same work
March 23, 2021 by Henry Benjamin
Jewish, Muslim and Christian schoolchildren have gathered at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen to cook food and biscuits for frontline workers and victims as once in a lifetime flooding ravaged the south-east coast of Australia. Read more
A referendum on Netanyahu
March 23, 2021 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Israel is trembling with uncertainty ahead of today’s election, whose outcome nobody can predict. But, unlike previous Knesset elections, this one—the fourth in two years—is not seeing the arrival in droves of foreign journalists. Read more
NSW Magen David Adom 2021 appeal
March 23, 2021 by J-Wire
From the beginning of the vaccination campaign in Israel, Magen David Adom has been responsible for more than five million people being vaccinated against COVID. Now is time for NSW supporters to aid the aid organisation financially. Read more
Israel revokes PA Foreign Minister’s VIP card
March 22, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel has revoked the VIP card from Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad Malki after he returned to Ramallah from a meeting with Fatuous Bensouda, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Read more
Putting public interest first
These elections are about a vote for the right or for a fifth election rife with division, hatred, boycotts and terrible chaos that will tear our people apart. That’s the whole story. Read more
