24th Knesset dissolves, Yair Lapid becomes Israel’s 15th Prime Minister
June 30, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The Knesset plenum approved today a bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset in its second and third readings, sending the country to another round of general elections, Israel’s fifth round in less than four years. Read more
Who will be Israel’s next Prime Minister?
June 30, 2022 by Ron Weiser
Anyone claiming to predict who the next prime minister of Israel will be is a brave person. Read more
Slap on the wrist
June 30, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
UN Watch has exposed 120 UNRWA teachers who publicly called to murder Jews. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: The ALP response to UNHRC’s first report
June 30, 2022 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns, Labor Member for Macnamara, about the Albanese government’s response to the first report of the UNHRC’s “Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel”. Read more
Shabbat Korach: Falling on Your Face
June 30, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
Last weekend I tripped and fell flat on my face in the street. Just miraculous (or fortunate) that I fell on the tarmac instead of the paving stones. Read more
Naftali Bennett announces his retirement from politics
June 30, 2022 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett addressed the nation Wednesday night on all of the country’s broadcast channels to announce his intention to quit politics as soon as new elections are held. Read more
Israel welcomes end of Ben & Jerry’s boycott on Israel
June 30, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel welcomed the announcement by Unilever Global that Ben & Jerry’s in Israel will continue to sell its ice cream “without discrimination,” and congratulated Avi Zinger, the owner of Ben & Jerry’s in Israel, for “the deal he has reached.” Read more
An orthodox feminist
June 30, 2022 by J-Wire
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia is hosting another in-person event in Melbourne with the trailblazing feminist author and activist Sally Berkovic. Read more
Come Rain or Come Shine: a theatre review by Alex First
June 30, 2022 by Alex First
Come Rain or Come Shine is a charming, funny and smart romantic musical comedy, which unfolds over nearly three decades. Read more
Israeli youth soccer team reaches European championship semi-finals for first time
Israel’s national youth soccer team made history over the weekend by becoming the first Israeli team to qualify for the semi-finals of the UEFA Under-19 European Championships in Slovakia. Read more
Bolstering Bibi by deriding his backers
June 29, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 on Monday, former TV news anchor Gadi Sukenik unwittingly gave a boost to the very politician whose supporters he was trying to discredit. Read more
High hopes for new mosaic center to unite mixed Israeli city
June 29, 2022 by Judy Lash Balint - JNS.org
A little more than a year ago, Arab rioters smashed the glass façade of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Centre during the violence that engulfed Israel’s mixed Arab-Jewish cities because of the 2021 Gaza War. Read more
ZAKA founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav dies after year in coma
June 29, 2022 by TPS
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, founder and chairman of the ZAKA Search and Rescue organization and a high-profile Israeli figure, passed away Wednesday morning about a year after attempting suicide while facing allegations that he committed sex offences of various degrees against boys, girls, and women, over decades. Read more
Hamas release video of Israeli hostage Hisham a-Sayed
June 29, 2022 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
The Hamas terrorist organization released a video yesterday purporting to be of Hisham a-Sayed, a Druze Israeli civilian said to be suffering from psychiatric issues who has been held captive in Gaza for years. Read more
Murray Dahm talks to Madama Butterfly star Virgilio Marino
June 29, 2022 by Murray Dahm
The character of Goro in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly is essential to the opera’s drama. Read more
Jul-18 3:55pm SBS-World Movies: The Crossing
December, 1942. Following their parent’s arrest for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the war, young siblings Gerda and Otto are left on their own. Read more
Jul-17 8:30pm SBS-World Movies: Once Upon a Time in America
June 29, 2022 by J-Wire
Sergio Leone’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ is an epic gangster film spanning decades. Told in flashbacks, the film follows David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson from a tough kid in a Jewish slum in New York’s Lower East Side, through his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss – a journey marked by violence, betrayal and remorse. Read more
Report: On PA’s request, US to Add Israeli orgs Lehava and La Familia to list of terrorist organizations
June 29, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
During an angry phone call between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on May 31, the latter promised Abbas that the Biden administration would soon add the Israeli Lehava (Flame) and La Familia organizations to the list of US-designated terrorist organizations, TPS has learned. Read more
Governor-General patron of The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
June 29, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
New Zealand’s Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro has accepted the role of Patron of The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. Read more
Australia’s Jewish population at an all-time high
June 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The 2021 census results show that Australia’s Jewish population is 99,956 a 9.8% increase on the 2016 census. Read more
No punishment for swastika tic-tac-toe
A Melbourne student caught playing tic-tac-toe using swastikas was not punished by the school because it didn’t happen in front of Jewish students, a court has been told. Read more
On the other hand
June 28, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Here we go again. Read more
What’s ahead for Israel?
June 28, 2022 by David Isaac
Events have been moving swiftly since Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced on June 20 their intention to dismantle the government. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Abraham Benjamin – a family business in its one hundred and forty-second year – David Benjamin – a family business in Dunedin, New Zealand
June 28, 2022 by Ruth Lillian
Abraham and his wife Theresa Falk came to Melbourne in 1865 by boat from Bristol, UK. Read more
Passing Strange (Antipodes Theatre Company) at Meat Market Stables, as reviewed by Alex First
June 28, 2022 by Alex First
A dynamic score characterises a coming-of-age story. Read more
What is Kabbalah?
June 27, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Court extends remand of Israeli suspect in stabbing death of Palestinian near Ariel
June 27, 2022 by JNS
The Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court on Thursday extended by six days the remand of the suspect in the stabbing death of a Palestinian man near Ariel on Tuesday. Read more
Hussein al-Sheikh officially appointed Palestinian Authority’s No. 2 man
June 27, 2022 by JNS
Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh has been appointed secretary-general of the PLO and head of the PLO negotiating team. Thanks to these two appointments, al-Sheikh is now the No.2 in the Palestinian leadership, boosting his chances of being made P.A. chairman. Read more
Let UNRWA die already
June 27, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Despite managing to raise $160 million in New York on Thursday, at a pledging conference of the Ad Hoc Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, the head of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was not pleased. Read more
Six at the Comedy Theatre, as reviewed by Alex First
June 27, 2022 by Alex First
A contemporary interpretation of the dastardly deeds of King Henry VIII, Six rocks. Its pop vibe is a sure-fire winner. Read more
