Meet Dr Gillian Pollack
October 14, 2021 by A J-Wire community service announcement
NCJWA NSW presents the AWARD-WINNING Dr Gillian Pollack. Read more
Oct-18 7:30pm Zoom: Dr Gillian Pollack
October 14, 2021 by A J-Wire community service announcement
NCJWA NSW presents the AWARD-WINNING Dr Gillian Pollack. Read more
Oct-31 11:25pm SBS-World Movies: Son of Saul Academy Award winner
October 14, 2021 by J-Wire
Saul Auslander is a member of the Sonderkommando, a group of Jewish prisoners who were forced to assist the Nazis by cremating the bodies of the dead in 1944. Read more
Nov-06 11:20pm SBS-TV: Movie – The Pianist
October 14, 2021 by J-Wire
Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as WWII begins. Read more
Nov-06 5:25pm SBS-TV: Inside the SS – Extermination
October 14, 2021 by J-Wire
During WWII, Hitler put the SS in charge of exterminating the designated enemies of the regime. Read more
Nov-02 4:10pm SBS-TV: My Grandparents War
October 14, 2021 by J-Wire
Both sets of Helena Bonham Carter’s grandparents, one in France, one in England, weren’t conventional war heroes. Read more
Oct-31 5:30pm SBS-TV: Inside the SS – Intoxication
October 14, 2021 by J-Wire
Hitler created the SS in 1925 as a private army that would be loyal to him to the death. Read more
Google, Amazon workers call to cancel billion-dollar Israel contract
October 14, 2021 by JNS
Hundreds of Google and Amazon employees have signed a public letter demanding that the tech giants cancel Project Nimbus, a billion-dollar contract to provide public cloud computing services to Israel. Read more
Race for Jewish Agency’s leadership heats up
October 14, 2021 by JNS
The Jewish Agency may soon see a woman at its helm for the first time; five of the eight candidates seeking the chairmanship are women. The Agency’s Board of Governors is expected to announce the identity of the new chairperson by the end of the month. Read more
Former Mossad chief: Iran ‘not even close to acquiring nuclear weapon’
October 14, 2021 by JNS
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said on Tuesday that Iran’s position is weaker than it has been in the past. Read more
President Herzog address the Malmo Forum
October 14, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog participated virtually in the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in Malmö, Sweden. Read more
Author Sally Rooney won’t allow Hebrew translation of book, citing support for BDS
October 13, 2021 by JNS
An Irish author announced that she will only sell the Hebrew translation rights of her new novel if she can find a publishing house that adheres to the guidelines of the anti-Israel BDS movement. Read more
BDS proves once again that it’s all about the antisemitism
October 13, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Irish novelist Sally Rooney thinks that she’s an advocate for human rights, and that prejudice and hate have nothing to do with her work or her various political stands. Read more
Yair Lapid’s foreign-policy follies
October 13, 2021 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
When Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid received the mandate from then-President Reuven Rivlin to form a government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once again unable to form a parliamentary majority, he succeeded in luring right-wing stalwart Naftali Bennett away from his natural political partners. Read more
President of the Sydney Jewish Museum pays tribute to Eddie Jaku
October 13, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The president of the Sydney Jewish Museum Gus Lehrer makes a personal tribute to the late Eddie Jaku, a survivor of Auschwitz who called himself the happiest man on earth…and there are others who want to pay their respects. Read more
Ayelet Shaked blames Religious Zionism Party for failure on passing new immigration law
October 13, 2021 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
The dispute continues over attempts to permanently amend Israel’s Basic Law on Immigration to bar granting citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens. Read more
Bennett, with six seats in Knesset, calls to limit ultra-orthodox political power
October 13, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has generated a political storm in Israel calling to “limit the political sway” of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel. Read more
President Herzog hopes for positive outcome from Glasgow
October 13, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog has addressed the Jerusalem Post 10th Annual Conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Read more
The Jewish Holocaust Centre unpacks Australia’s only Holocaust war crimes trial
October 13, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
On Trial Series: The Ivan Polyukhovich Trial will see the case’s key players come together and explore the landmark trial through an online panel discussion presented by Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre. Read more
Former Hebrew University professor wins Nobel Prize
October 12, 2021 by Tali Aronsky
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has congratulated Professor Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens, along with David Carr, on being awarded the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph Barrow Montefiore – a trader, land owner and one of the earliest free settlers
October 12, 2021 by Features Desk
Joseph was born in 1803 in London, the youngest son of Eliezer and Judith Levi Montefiore. Read more
The smile has gone but the memory remains
October 12, 2021 by Henry Benjamin
Eddie Jaku passed away in Sydney this morning leaving a legacy of hope for a troubled world. Read more
Israeli envoy accuses Ben & Jerry of ‘ignorance and hypocrisy’ for boycott against Israel
October 12, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Ben & Jerry’s co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield displayed “ignorance and hypocrisy” in a recent interview on the company’s decision to boycott Judea and Samaria, Israel’s Ambassador to the US and United Nations Gilad Erdan charged, threatening further action against the company. Read more
Yuli Edelstein to challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership, says Likud can’t win ever again under Bibi
October 12, 2021 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
Former Israeli Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein has declared his intention to challenge Binyamin Netanyahu for the leadership of Israel’s Likud Party. He made the announcement in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News. Read more
Jerusalem names new square for a Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations
October 12, 2021 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
The Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon has dedicated a square in the city in the name of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who served at the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania during World War II and helped to issue visas to more than 2,150 Jews. Read more
World’s largest Byzantine-era winepresses discovered in Israel
October 12, 2021 by TPS-IL
A massive and impressive Byzantine-era wine factory, the largest ever discovered in the world, was recently exposed near the coastal city of Yavneh, in the centre of Israel. Read more
Third stage of Israel’s National Drone Initiative takes off to Tel Aviv area
Israel’s National Drone Initiative, which first began its flights over urban areas in January 2021, has launched its third phase, with the participation of five companies operating autonomous drone networks. Read more
Antisemitic EU & ECRI policies on Israel cannot be whitewashed
October 11, 2021 by David Singer
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) – in attempting to whitewash European Union (EU) policies directed against Israel in Judea and Samaria being labelled as “antisemitic” – is engaging in similar antisemitic conduct in denying Israel’s right to claim sovereignty there. Read more
Pompeo in Binyamin: ‘We stand with the Jewish Communities because we are loyal to the truth’
October 11, 2021 by TPS-IL
A tribute event, attended by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli leaders from Judea and Samaria, was held on Sunday evening for former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in appreciation of his efforts to strengthen the Jewish communities in the region. Read more
Twenty scholarships awarded by the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia
October 11, 2021 by Nomi Kaltmann
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia (JOFA) has recently provided twenty scholarships to Australian women from Sydney and Melbourne who wanted to become qualified Kallah teachers, via a 20-week world-renowned course offered on ZOOM by The Eden Centre in Jerusalem. Read more
