Why do women light the Shabbat candles?
May 23, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
UN set to pillory Israel whilst condoning PLO & Hamas apartheid
May 23, 2022 by David Singer
The appointment of a new Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967– Francesca Albanese –serves to highlight the anti-Israel bias that dominates the United Nations (UN) to its eternal shame. Read more
Feintooner
May 23, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Knesset Acrobatics. Read more
Israeli Arab MP returns to coalition
May 23, 2022 by AAP
A lawmaker from Israel’s Arab minority says she is returning to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition, restoring its tenuous hold over half of the seats in parliament after she briefly bolted in solidarity with the Palestinians. Read more
Top Gun: Maverick – a movie review by Alex First
May 22, 2022 by Alex First
Top Gun: Maverick is everything I wanted and more from a sequel 36 years on. Read more
Was an American drug-terror operation against Hezbollah halted to advance the Iran nuclear deal?
May 22, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
It’s a story few listened to the first time. It’s coming around again at a critical juncture. Read more
Danny Danon looks back on his fight for Israel in the United Nations
May 22, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
In the decade that separates the two books that former ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon has written, a lot has transpired. Read more
420-1: The U.S. House of Representarives votes to condemn antisemitism
May 22, 2022 by Dmitriy Shapiro
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly has passed a bipartisan resolution to condemn anti-Semitism. Read more
First case of Monkeypox discovered in Israel
May 22, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The first case of Monkeypox has been discovered in Israel after it spread to Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia in recent days. Read more
Congratulations for Anthony Albanese and Labor
May 22, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has congratulated the new Labor government but pointed out there have been differences of opinion between the Jewish peak body and the Labor Party. Read more
On the other hand
May 22, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
One of the bonuses of living in Israel is that the Hebrew calendar regulates the Festivals and important dates in Jewish history. Read more
The Kokoda squad raising funds for the battle against cancer
May 20, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Former Israeli commando Jarryd Rubinstein is gearing up to lead Patrick Cosgrove and Oliver Lavers on the Kokoda Track to raise money for cancer. Read more
Israeli study sheds light on organised gang rape of Jewish slaves in 17th-century Italy
May 20, 2022 by JNS
A Tel Aviv University historian has unearthed evidence of the organised gang rape of Jewish slave women and girls in 17th-century Italy. Read more
The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonisation
May 20, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The “broken windows” theory of policing, responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. Bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored. Read more
How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?
May 20, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
It’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. Read more
Abortion
May 20, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
In 1973 the USA Supreme Court decided in Roe v Wade to strike down Texas laws that criminalized abortion. Read more
Yoni wins Diaspora Bible Quiz in Israel
May 20, 2022 by Emily Gian
The winner of the National Bible Quiz in Australia, Yoni Moss, and runner up Yehonatan Shroot, both of Leibler Yavneh College in Victoria, have travelled to Israel to participate in a training camp and fight for a spot in the final. Read more
AAP: Israel army gun ‘may have killed reporter’
May 20, 2022 by AAP
The Israeli military has identified a soldier’s rifle that may have killed al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh but says it cannot be certain unless the Palestinians turn over the bullet for analysis, a military official says. Read more
Hide and seek
May 20, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Quote: Three things cannot hide for long. The moon, the sun and the Truth. Read more
Israel’s ruling coalition becomes minority
May 20, 2022 by AAP
Israel’s ruling coalition has become a minority in parliament after an Arab lawmaker from a left-wing party quit, leaving Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with a more precarious grip on power. Read more
Authorities seize 1,800 rare and ancient artifacts suspected as stolen from archeological sites
May 20, 2022 by TPS
About 1,800 antique coins, jewellery and stamps, pottery plates with inscriptions, and an ancient bronze figurine were seized this week at the home of a resident of the city of Modi’in in the centre of the country, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Thursday. Read more
Storm brewing in NSW Parliament
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australian Jewish Association has condemned a vicious attack on Israel by Labor Deputy Whip Anthony D’Adam in the NSW Parliament yesterday. Read more
Labor help for St Kilda Shule
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The St Kilda Shule is to get $300,000 from the government should Labor win Saturday’s election. Read more
Groups back International Legal Forum report blasting anti-Israel UN inquiry
May 19, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
A coalition of 25 pro-Israel organizations from around the world has signed on to an International Legal Forum (ILF) report castigating the U.N. Commission of Inquiry against Israel as “singularly unprecedented, unjust and completely lacking in impartiality or any legal basis.” Read more
Germany seeks prison time for alleged Nazi guard at former concentration camp
May 19, 2022 by JNS
German prosecutors are seeking a five-year prison term for a man who allegedly served as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II, reported the Associated Press. Read more
Not the end of Kosher butchery in Sydney
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire News Service
Kosher consumers are by now fully aware of the closure of Kosherworld, comprising both Hadassa Butchery and Katzy’s. Read more
Antisemitism claims and the election
May 19, 2022 by Andre Oboler
Media articles today about the “Angel of Death” are an abuse of Holocaust memory. I don’t mean the comments by Simon Holmes à Court, I mean the media articles themselves. Read more
Labor offers a better future for all Australians
When the cost of the necessities of life, like food and medicine, grows faster than pay packets of Australians, there is something wrong with our nation…writes Anthony Albanese. Read more
Shabbat Behar: Valuing the Land
May 19, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
An accident in the field
May 19, 2022 by Ron Weiser
In the battle between Russia and Ukraine, the Western world and most democracies, see the situation in black and white terms. Read more
