A community in furore

August 27, 2021 by  

A leaked email revealed a plan to appease the Sydney Jewish community by maintaining requests to NSW Health to give special permission to blow Shofars in various parts of the city and allowing congregants to walk by as they did…but the email to NSW Police from the Community Security Group stated that the application would be withdrawn three days before Rosh Hashanah. Read more

More than 1,000 Arab Israelis vaccinated in the first three days of Magen David Adom and the Ministry of Health’s new operation

August 27, 2021 by  

In the first three days of “Operation Vaccination at Home,” Magen David Adom’s Intensive Vaccine Mobility teams vaccinated more than 1,000 people. Read more

Gantz condemns Kabul terror attacks: ‘We stand with our American partners’

August 27, 2021 by  

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz condemned the terror attack at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, reiterating that Israel “stands with our American partners.” Read more

Biden reschedules meeting with Bennett after two terror attacks reported in Kabul

August 27, 2021 by  

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s much anticipated first meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden has been postponed for Friday after news of a terror attack near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Read more

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan empowers international terrorism

August 27, 2021 by  

In a stunning statement last Friday in which he defended his withdrawal decision, President Joe Biden claimed that Al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan. Read more

Neo-Nazi gets three years in prison for threatening ADL, journalists

August 27, 2021 by  

The leader of neo-Nazi efforts to threaten journalists and the U.S. Anti-Defamation League for exposing antisemitism was sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, reported by the Department of Justice. Read more

Appeasement

August 27, 2021 by  

I was brought up to despise the word appeasement. It was the ideology favoured by much of the British aristocracy and political leaders before the Second World War. Read more

Secord raises Israeli approach to Covid vaccinations at NSW Parliamentary hearing

August 27, 2021 by  

Israel’s vaccination rates and its roll-out of a third Pfizer booster jab were canvassed at a recent NSW Health budget estimates hearings by the NSW Labor Opposition. Read more

Imbecilic insanity

August 27, 2021 by  

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is reported as having called the American Administration’s total pullout from Afghanistan as imbecilic. Read more

Afghan disaster likely to “open the flood gates” of Jihadist terror – US expert Michael Rubin

August 27, 2021 by  

With Afghanistan falling to the Taliban, the latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar featured resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon official Michael Rubin  – addressing the “Implications of the Afghanistan disaster”. Read more

NZ Human Rights Commission’s campaign to address racism

August 27, 2021 by  

The Human Rights Commission has launched an initiative to gather Aotearoa New Zealand’s thoughts on how to address racism. Read more

New president for the JCCWA

August 27, 2021 by  

A well-attended Jewish Community Council of Western Australia AGM last week saw significant changes to the Executive. Read more

Israeli archaeologists expose famed bimah at old Vilna synagogue destroyed during Holocaust

August 27, 2021 by  

An Israeli excavation of the famed Great Synagogue in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, has fully exposed the Aron Kodesh (Torah Ark) and the Bimah (raised podium) that was destroyed decades ago by the Nazis and the Soviets. Read more

Shabbat Ki Tavo

August 26, 2021 by  

Why do we do things in life? Is it to get some kind of reward? Read more

With the Zionists in Gallipoli

August 26, 2021 by  

A friend in England happened to acquire a historic 1916 edition of “With the Zionists in Gallipoli”, the book written by Lt-Colonel J. H. Patterson while he spent a month in hospital in 1916…writes Alan Slade. Read more

Samaria leader: Bennett’s limiting of construction to natural growth ‘unacceptable’

August 26, 2021 by  

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s policy of limiting Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria is “unacceptable” and harmful to Israel’s presence in the region, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan warned. Read more

Why the Crown Heights pogrom still matters

Three decades have passed since the Crown Heights pogrom, and any assessment of the memory of that tragic event must start with an acknowledgment that New York City is a very different place than it was in August 1991. Read more

Israeli-Arab swimmer Iyad Shalabi wins 1st Gold Medal for country at Tokyo Paralympics

August 26, 2021 by  

Iyad Shalabi, an Israeli swimmer, made history Wednesday when he became the first-ever Israeli-Arab to win a gold medal at the Paralympics Games. Read more

Burger Centre celebrates 30 years

August 26, 2021 by  

Sydney’s Burger Centre is approaching its 30th birthday during an international pandemic. Read more

‘Reliable Friend’: PM Bennett meets with Secretary of State Blinken

August 26, 2021 by  

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met on Wednesday in Washington with Secretary of State Antony Blinken as part of a series of meeting with President Joe Biden and top US defence officials. Read more

Jobs Open!

August 26, 2021 by  

CEO’s of Jewish House and JewishCare, Rabbi Mendel Kastel and Gary Groves are calling on the Sydney community to work together to connect local employers with job seekers. Read more

Eichmann was turned in by anti-Nazi geologist, German paper reveals

August 26, 2021 by  

Sixty years after infamous Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured by Mossad agents and brought to Israel for trial, a German media outlet has revealed, for the first time, the identity of the person believed to have turned Eichmann in. Read more

Controversial exhibit on Nazi-persecuted Jewish art dealer to open in Germany

August 26, 2021 by  

An exhibition is set to open in Düsseldorf, Germany, about the life and legacy of Jewish art dealer Max Stern after being abruptly cancelled in 2017 in relation to a restitution claim, reported The Art Newspaper. Read more

Israel’s Defence Minister to Ambassadors: Iran very close to bomb, take action

August 26, 2021 by  

Defence Minister Benny Gantz held on Wednesday a briefing for more than 60 foreign ambassadors on the security situation under the title “Challenges and opportunities for Israel and its allies,” during which he underscored Iran’s threat to global peace. Read more

Aug-29 11pm: Facebook+website: Centenary for Maccabi World Union

Israel’s president Itzhak Herzog will attend the launch of the Maccabi World Union Centennial Events to be streamed on MWU’s website and Facebook page. Read more

Centenary for Maccabi World Union

Israel’s president Itzhak Herzog will attend the launch of the Maccabi World Union Centennial Events to be streamed on MWU’s website and Facebook page. Read more

6.69% of COVID-19 tests return positive, highest in Israel’s 4th wave

August 25, 2021 by  

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics in Israel continued to climb and set new negative records, as 6.69% of the 155,351 Corona tests done Tuesday returned positive, the highest rate in Israel’s fourth COVID-19 wave that began in June. Read more

Dr Jamal Rifi sentenced in absentia for his work with Project Rozana

August 25, 2021 by  

Sydney doctor Dr Jamal Rifi is reported to have been sentenced to ten years’ jail for working with Israel through a connection with Melbourne-based Project Rozana. Read more

Moriah fraudster jailed for nine years

August 25, 2021 by  

Sydney’s Moriah College’s former Financial Controller Gus Nosti has been sentenced to a maximum of nine years in jail for stealing $7.4 million from the school between 2004-2019. Read more

Ron Dermer and Noa Tishby to join International Line-up at Virtual Gala for JNF’s 120th Anniversary

August 25, 2021 by  

Ron Dermer, Israel’s 18th Ambassador to the US, Noa Tishby, actress and activist, Elon Gold, comedian and actor, and, leading Israeli and Eurovision singer Eden Alene will headline JNF’s Virtual Gala marking the organisation’s 120th anniversary.

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