‘Loyalty and Zionism’: Esther Pollard passes away
January 31, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Esther Pollard, the wife of former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, passed away on Monday morning. Read more
The Marriage of Figaro: an opera review by Victor Grynberg
January 31, 2022 by Victor Grynberg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is widely regarded as the third member of the greatest classical composers trio, along with Johann Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Read more
Did Arabs and Jews ever get on?
January 31, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Contemporary antisemitism and ways to counter it
January 31, 2022 by Julie Nathan
Around the world, we see Jews increasingly under attack – synagogues vandalised, Jewish students ostracised, Jews beaten up in the streets or murdered in their homes, calls for Israel to be destroyed. It has become so pervasive and overwhelming. Read more
UAE intercepts missile amid Israeli visit
January 31, 2022 by AAP
The United Arab Emirates says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi as the Gulf state hosts Israel’s President Isaac Herzog in a first such visit. Read more
Feintooner
January 31, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Abrahamic Family Reunion Read more
Abass’s office: ‘We will continue to support the prisoners in Israel and the families of the martyrs’
January 31, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
The issue of prisoners is a top priority for the “Palestinian presidency,” and it demands their release at every official meeting, with Israelis or Americans or any international body. Read more
‘A Better Tomorrow’: President Herzog meets with Crown Prince bin Zayed in UAE
January 31, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog held on Sunday a diplomatic meeting with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the first phase of his historic two-day state visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read more
New CEO for Technion Australia
January 31, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Yoash Dvir has been appointed the new CEO of Technion Australia. Read more
Gaza’s residents in fierce protest against Hamas online
January 31, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Gazans have launched a campaign under the banner “Kidnapped Gaza” in which they make harsh allegations against Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization that took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, saying it destroyed the Strip and their lives. Read more
Spread of COVID-19 in Israel slowing down
January 31, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The spread of the Omicron variant is apparently in the decline, and for the first time since November, the R coefficient of infection fell below 1 and stood at 0.95, the Ministry of Health announced Sunday. Read more
Ben & Jerry’s Israel asks PM Bennett: Why are you not acting against Unilever?
January 31, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Avi Zinger, CEO and owner of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, has sent a letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calling on him to take action against Unilever Global – Ben & Jerry’s parent company, following its boycott of the Jewish state. Read more
$20 tickets for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House for years 11 & 12 students
January 31, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Opera Australia has partnered with The Bourne Foundation to offer year 11 and 12 students $20 tickets to see Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro during its summer season at the Sydney Opera House. Read more
Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’
January 30, 2022 by JNS
A school board in Tennessee unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Holocaust from its schools because it includes eight minor curse words such as “damn” and an illustration of a naked woman. Read more
What the row over caricatures of Yasser Arafat tells us about Palestinian politics
January 30, 2022 by Ben Cohen
A perennial discussion in the cauldron that is Middle Eastern politics concerns the degree to which a sovereign Palestinian state, should one ever be created, would be democratic. Read more
Fox in flying start to 2022 kayak campaign
January 30, 2022 by AAP
Olympic gold medallist Jessica Fox has continued her golden form into the new year, taking out the women’s kayak final at the 2022 ICF Oceania Canoe Slalom Championships in western Sydney. Read more
All Things Equal Cafe celebrates its first anniversary
January 30, 2022 by Nomi Kaltmann
It has been one year since the All-Things Equal Cafe launched in Melbourne. A registered charity, All Things Equal is a fresh take on the typical cafe in Melbourne, providing purposeful employment for people with and without disability in a ‘mainstream’ work environment. Read more
On the other hand
January 30, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
The “big one” has arrived. Read more
Yair Lapid on Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘The Jewish State is the future and Mauthausen is a museum’
January 30, 2022 by TPS
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid made a special visit to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is held on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. He was joined by the Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer. Read more
A president’s personal Holocaust story
January 30, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
“Yehudit Berkovitch had just finished the first grade and was peacefully living with her parents and eight brothers and sisters in 1941 when the Nazis invaded her home country, Poland. Read more
How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war
January 28, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the West is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia? Read more
More than 15,000 Holocaust survivors passed away in Israel last year
January 28, 2022 by Agencies
Over the past year, 15,324 Holocaust survivors died in Israel, according to data published on Wednesday by the country’s Social Equality Ministry. Read more
Australian Jewish leaders slam Litzman plea bargain deal
January 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Former minister and member of Israel’s United Torah Judaism Party Yaakov Litzman signed a plea deal with Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday, admitting to breach of trust…reported i24.
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Gerontocracy
January 28, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
Old age, Senior Citizens, Geriatrics are all rather pejorative terms for people who have reached a certain age or stage in their lives. Like me! Read more
Large parts of Israel blanketed in snow
Large parts of Israel, from the Golan Heights in the north, through the Galilee, Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, and all the way south to areas near Be’er Sheva, were blanketed in snow Wednesday night. Read more
Premature euphoria
January 28, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
The recent passing of a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly sponsored by Israel (and others) has caused much jubilation. Read more
Tearful Knesset Speaker to Bundestag: ‘Remember, Always Remember!’
Speaker of the Knesset Mickey Levy addressed the German Bundestag in Hebrew on Thursday on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Henry Greener chats with Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton
January 28, 2022 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Sydney’s The Great Synagogue’s Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton is a prominent example of the new breed of young rabbis who have put a modern slant on Orthodox Judaism. Read more
Launch of Neishlos Foundation marks new generation inJewish philanthropy
January 28, 2022 by J-Wire
Australian-Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist, Eitan Neishlos, has launched a new philanthropic foundation, the Neishlos Foundation. Read more
‘Shema Yisrael’ pendants discovered during excavations in Sobibor death camp
Over the past decade, archaeological excavations in the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland have uncovered three pendants bearing depictions of Moses and the tablets of the Law on one side and the Hebrew prayer “Shema Yisrael,” (“Hear O Israel”) in the other. Read more
