Use by date expires

When use by dates expire for food and medicine, we dispose of the remaining items to avoid being either poisoned or adversely affected. Read more

Ultra-Orthodox hold Israel army draft demo

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men have blocked a major Jerusalem intersection to protest attempts to force them to register for Israel’s military draft. Read more

How Benny Gantz killed Israeli-Palestinian peace

In an interview with Maariv last week, former Israeli Air Force commander Amir Eshel made several startling admissions about the role he and other IDF generals played in scuttling former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant strategic policies. Read more

UN Security Council hails Lapid’s ‘two-state’ commitment, questions Israeli counterterrorism ops

As the United Nations Security Council met on Wednesday, a recurrent theme emerged. Council members lauded Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s support for a two-state solution while simultaneously expressing concern over growing instability in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Read more

Cyrano: a theatre review by Alex First

A massive triumph. The MTC production of the season. A talented cast, headlined by writer and star Virginia Gay proves that the pen is mightier than the sword. Read more

Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism

Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews. Read more

Divine Royalty

“Adonai, what is a human being that You should care about him, what is a mortal, that You should consider it?  A human is no more than a breath, a life is like a passing shadow” (Psalms 144.3.).

What can express the vulnerability, the insignificance of human beings, more succinctly than that? Read more

‘Support for Terrorism’: EU upset by IDF’s counterterrorism operations

The European Union’s Delegation to the Palestinian Authority had harsh words for the IDF following its recent counterterrorism operations in Samaria, which ended in the death of several terrorists. Read more

Israeli lawmaker welcomes Italy’s New Prime Minister Meloni

Member of Knesset Gila Gamliel, a former Israeli minister, congratulated her “dear friend” Giorgia Meloni on becoming the new prime minister of Italy, possibly the only Israeli politician to do so. Read more

Antisemitic daubing on Melbourne synagogue’s billboard

Vandals have daubed an antisemitic message on a billboard advertising Shul services in front of a Chabad synagogue and religious centre in Melbourne Read more

Mikolot Public Speaking Competition goes international

Six students participated at Sydney’s Moriah College in the 2022 Grand Final of the Mikolot: Voices of the Future Public Speaking Competition. Read more

Shabbat Vayeylech and Shuva: Why God hides

The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is always called the Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return. Read more

Israel will not recognise results of Russian ‘referendums’ in Ukrainian provinces

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Israel will not recognise the results of Russian “referendums” being held in Ukrainian provinces occupied by Russian forces. Read more

Jewish director says Facebook banning ads for his Holocaust film was shameful

A son of Holocaust survivors is demanding an apology from Facebook for blocking ads for his newly-released film “Beautiful Blue Eyes.” Read more

NSW rabbis meet Minister Mark Coure

Members of the Rabbinical Council of NSW have met with the NSW Minister for Multiculturalism Mark Coure. Read more

First flight: Israeli-designed electric plane takes off in US

An all-electric prototype aircraft, dubbed Alice, took off from the city of Moses Lake in Washington state on Tuesday. Read more

In these days of cybersecurity, Israel can help

A few weeks ago, I came across a tender looking for companies to provide real-time awareness of cybersecurity hacking for the Sydney Opera House’s website.
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I don’t go to shule because it does nothing for me. What advice, if any, can you give me?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Prof Sharon Lewin – Leading the AUSiMED delegation to Israel to discuss each country’s COVID-19 response

Morry Frenkel speaks with Prof Sharon Lewin, inaugural Director of the Peter Doherty Institute, co-chair of the COVID19 Health and Research Advisory Council and member of the AUSiMED Board, about the recent AUSiMED delegation she led to Israel. Read more

Is Italy’s Giorgia Meloni a friend or a foe of the Jews?

The latest parliamentary elections in Italy have sent many in the chattering classes in both Europe and the United States heading for their smelling salts. Read more

Giorgia Meloni: ‘I believe that the existence of Israel is vital’

It appears that history is about to be made in Italy: Giorgia Meloni, the 45-year-old leader of the national conservative party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), has pledged to fight mass immigration and Islamization and has been very critical of the European Union, is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. Read more

Giorgia Meloni and other female conservatives are today’s feminists

There is no doubt that, in historical terms, one of the left’s most important and beloved causes has been women’s emancipation, and rightly so. Read more

Over 5,400 Russians arrive in Israel since Putin announces conscription

At least 5,400 Russians have arrived in Israel in the past days since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week the conscription of 300,000 civilians into military service to fight in Ukraine. Read more

Australia doubles its contribution to UNRWA

Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong has announced the doubling of Australia’s funding to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees, from A$10m to A$20 million. Read more

South Korea ratifies free trade agreement with Israel

South Korea’s National Assembly ratified on Tuesday a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Israel, the final domestic procedure needed for its implementation and the first-ever FTA between Israel and a country in Asia. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: As the axis of evil turns and burns Read more

Instruments of Dance (The Australian Ballet): reviewed by Alex First

The second line of Peter Allen’s iconic anthem, I Still Call Australia Home, contains the words “From New York to Rio and old London Town”. Read more

Oct-20 10:10am SBS-World Movies: September of Shiraz

This is the story, based on true events, of a secular Jewish family caught up in the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 – and their heroic journey to overcome and ultimately escape from the deadly tyranny that swept their country and threatened to extinguish their lives at every turn. Read more

Oct-22 11:15pm SBS: Marshall

In the year 1941, as the nation teeters on the brink of entering WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends its only lawyer, thirty-two-year-old Thurgood Marshall, to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against charges of rape and attempted murder brought by his wealthy socialite employer.

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B’nai B’rith and JBOD raise funds for flood victims

B’nai B’rith Australia and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies banded together to establish an appeal to raise much-needed flood relief funds for communities and individuals affected by February’sdevastinh floods in northern NSW and southern Queensland. Read more

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