Exciting concert at Sydney’s Great Synagogue
Vladamir Fanshil continues his series of intimate concerts with an amazing offering at Sydney’s Great Synagogue. Read more
On the othern hand
April 25, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
With a week of Chol Hamoed (intermediate days) Pesach, Israelis took the opportunity to visit nature reserves and picnic with family and friends. Read more
Josh Burns talks with Henry Greener
April 25, 2022 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Josh Burns MP, Federal Labor Member for Macnamara. discusses politics in terms of the forthcoming Federal Elections,= with Henry Greener and shares his opinions on particular topics and issues of concern. Read more
ANZAC Day in Jerusalem
April 25, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple addressed the ANZAC dawn service a the Australian War Cemetery at Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Read more
IDF shells targets in Lebanon in response to rocket attack
April 25, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
IDF artillery shelled targets in southern Lebanon on Sunday night in response to a rocket attack from the area earlier in the night. Read more
PA Imam calls to exterminate Jews
April 25, 2022 by TPS
An Imam in the Palestinian Authority (PA) led a prayer in the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah, last week broadcasted on PA TV in honour of the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which he called for the extermination of Jews. Read more
Why do we count the omer?
April 25, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
San Remo Conference: Catalyst for Jewish and Arab independence
April 24, 2022 by David Singer
The San Remo Conference held on 24 / 25 April 1920 marked the beginning of self-determination for both the Jewish People after 3000 years of dispersion and the Arabs after 400 years of Ottoman rule. Read more
Glen Eira Council to vote an IHRA definition
April 24, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
On Tuesday, Melbourne’s Glen Eira Council is to vote on adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Read more
Israel closes border with Gaza after rocket attacks
April 24, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel announced over the weekend it was shuttering the Erez Crossing from the Gaza Strip and barring the entry of Gazans into the country following several rockets attacks. Read more
Henry Greener chats with Zeddy Lawrence
April 24, 2022 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Zeddy Lawrence is now executive director at Zionism Victoria (ZV), after 12 years as national editor of The Australian Jewish News. Read more
Israeli police action on Temple Mount came after coordination with Egypt and Jordan
April 24, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Israel’s actions on the Temple Mount last week took place after Israel notified Egypt and Jordan, a senior Palestinian Authority source said. Read more
Absence in UN of condemnation of rocket attacks
April 24, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday evening and expressed his disappointment over the international community’s failure to condemn the recent rockets attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israel. Read more
Friday morning with Richard, Wolfgang, Carl and Felix
April 24, 2022 by Fraser Beath McEwing
A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing Read more
Police report: Rioting within the Al-Aqsa Mosque
April 21, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
At the end of the Fajr prayer on the Temple Mount this morning (Thursday), dozens of lawbreakers and masked men rioted and disturbed the peace with severe violence, as they have done in recent days. Read more
Stories from my Father: the liberating army
The war crimes that Russian President Vladimir Putin, his generals and his army are committing against Ukrainians —openly and shamelessly raping, torturing and murdering civilians, leaving cities and towns in rubble — are shocking, but to some Holocaust survivors and their descendants, these events provoke traumatic memories…writes Janine Winkler. Read more
Ukrainian refugees to participate in the March of the Living to Auschwitz
April 21, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
After a two-year hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the March of the Living will return this year, in-person, on a limited basis with 2,500 participants from 25 countries including the UK, UAE, Israel, USA, Austria, Germany. Read more
Podcast: David Schulberg busts another myth perpetrated by Adam Bandt
April 21, 2022 by Features Desk
David talks about Adam Bandt’s speech to Parliament on “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” on November 29, 2021. Read more
Preordained script
April 21, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Quote: “The future is an unknown but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future, we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted.” (Albert Einstein) Read more
Podcast: Danny Hakim – from ‘Budo For Peace’ to ‘sports for social change coalition’
April 20, 2022 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein chats with Aussie ex-pat Danny Hakim, who is actively involved in the field of Peace and Sport in the Middle East, being the founder and Chairman of Budo for Peace which he founded in 2004, and is the translation of his vision to create a society in which socially constructed rivals can conquer their cultural, social and political differences through the universal language of sport. Read more
Melbourne’s The Jewish Holocaust Centre gets a new name
April 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Only months before reopening following a three-year major redevelopment, the Jewish Holocaust Centre announces a transition to the name Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) accompanied by a logo and refined look from late April 2022. Read more
The Northman: a movie review by Alex First
April 20, 2022 by Alex First
Viking mythology gets a workout in Robert Eggers’ The Northman. Eggers is co-writer with Sjon (Lamb) and directs the bloodthirsty piece. Read more
“I’d like to walk where they walked”
April 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Holocaust survivor and sculptor Andrew Steiner had been providing education about the Holocaust to students for the past 40 years. Read more
Bennett buckles to Muslim violence, shutters Temple Mount for Jews
April 20, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s government, led by Naftali Bennett, has announced that it will block the entry of Jews to the Temple mount for two weeks until the conclusion of the Muslim month of Ramadan, apparently buckling to pressure from his Islamist coalition members, pressure from Arab countries, and violence from Muslim rioters at the holy site. Read more
A seder in Odessa
April 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
While tens of thousands of Jews have fled Ukraine since the start of the war, the majority of Jews still remain.
Most elderly Jews are too frail to leave and do not want to be split up from their family or leave the only home they know. For some, the journey out of the country is simply too terrifying a prospect or it is simply too dangerous to venture out.
Israel emphasizes ‘need for international support for returning calm to Jerusalem’
April 20, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s leadership engaged in a flurry of phone calls and diplomatic activity after facing heavy criticism from Arab and Muslim countries over Israel’s presence on the Temple Mount. Read more
A letter to Zoe Daniels
April 20, 2022 by Henry Benjamin
A failure to respond to his direct letter to the Independent candidate for Goldstein former ABC journalist Zoe Daniels has prompted Rabbi James Kennard to write n open letter to her on Facebook. Read more
Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol
April 20, 2022 by Agencies
As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Read more
Obfuscating the particularity of Passover
April 20, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on Friday, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai described visiting the Poland-Ukraine border, where he witnessed a “never-ending stream of refugees fleeing the savage war that has torn apart their lives.” Read more
Anti-Jewish incidents in Australia up 35% in 2021
April 20, 2022 by Julie Nathan
