In security breach, Iranian hackers steal Jerusalem bombing footage

Iranian hackers penetrated a major Israeli security organisation to steal and subsequently publish surveillance footage that captured one of Wednesday’s twin bombings in Jerusalem. Read more

Educating children

“Spare the rod and spoil the child” goes the old English saying. It is based on the book of Proverbs 13.24 “He who holds back the stick must hate his child”. Read more

Bible Quiz winner off to Israel

The ZFA’s annual national Bible Quiz took place on Tuesday 15 November and was a fantastic display of the commitment of the contestants to their learning and to the Tanach. Read more

Shabbat Toldot: Deception

The Torah is very clear about deception. “Do not deceive or lie to each other”( Leviticus 19.11). Read more

Own goals

Scoring an own goal can be a most embarrassing result in a soccer game, but it also has another connotation. Read more

Israeli teenager killed, more than 20 injured in Jerusalem terror bombings

One Israeli was killed and more than 20 injured on Wednesday in two explosions at bus stops located near entrances to Jerusalem. Read more

Palestinians return body of Israeli Druze teenager

Palestinians returned the body of an Israeli Druze student on Thursday morning after gunmen took it from a hospital in Jenin the previous day. Read more

Kosher in Qatar: Gulf state makes effort to accommodate Jewish guests for World Cup

While Qatar can hardly be considered a friend of Israel, harbouring as it does Hamas and other Islamic extremists and pouring millions into the Gaza Strip, when it comes to Jews visiting the country for the FIFA World Cup, it has been very accommodating, contrary to early reports which painted the country as obstinately refusing to supply kosher food and prayer spaces. Read more

For Israel’s detractors, her existence is the root cause of the issues, not her policies.

This most recent Israeli election, the fifth in the current cycle, proved to be quite different from the previous four, not only in producing a definitive result but with the campaign itself. Read more

$2m promise from Victoria Labor

Melbourne’s Jewish Arts Quarter has welcomed a generous $2 million pre-election commitment from the Victorian Labor Government should the Victorian Labor Party be successful on Saturday’s election day. Read more

Remove the word ‘Nazi’

Lawyers for Victoria’s education department asked an expert to remove the word Nazi from a report on whether a school principal’s alleged anti-Semitic speech caused offence to Jewish students, a court has heard. Read more

M by Montefiore wins Excellence in Construction Award

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Jewish activists in Europe join forces against xenophobia

In recent years, Europe has seen an alarming rise in antisemitism…writes Nicci Mowszowski Read more

Jerusalem bus stop blasts kill Yeshiva student and wound 23

Two blasts have gone off near bus stops in Jerusalem, killing a student and injuring at least 23 people in what police say are suspected attacks by Palestinians. Read more

15,000 Israelis in Qatar for the World Cup

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200 Haredi women to take part in development of IDF drone

Around 200 Haredi women software engineers from the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak will take part in developing unmanned aerial vehicles used by the Israeli military, Israel Hayom reported on Monday. Read more

Naftali Bennett headlines UIA’s celebrations for Israel’s 75th 

UIA Australia has announced that former Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, will be the guest of honour in Australia for its 2023 campaign gala events across the country. Read more

Murray Dahm speaks with Carmen’s bullfighter

I last spoke with Daniel Sumegi before the Melbourne performances of Wagner’s Lohengrin earlier this year. Now he returns to Australia in Carmen on Cockatoo Island as Escamillo, the bull-fighter and lover of the gypsy Carmen after she has tired of ex-corporal Don Jose. Read more

Australia: The Unpromised Land

Earlier this month, the story of a plan to settle 125,000 victims of the Holocaust in Australia was told during Holocaust Education Week in Toronto, Canada. Read more

Ehud Yaari: “Dangerous Curve” for Israel ahead, post-election

Eminent Israeli journalist Ehud Yaari joined the latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar, to discuss “Israel’s Election and the New Netanyahu Government”. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Emanuel Phillips Fox – impressionist painter and teacher

Emanuel was born on 12 March 1865 at Fitzroy, Melbourne, the seventh child of Alexander Fox, a Jewish photographer from London, and his Sydney-born wife Rosette, née Phillips. Read more

JCCV shows its support

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has extended its support to former students of Brighton Secondary College as their legal case alleging incidents of antisemitism returns to court. Read more

Israel greenlights project to document Holocaust survivors’ testimonies

Israel has approved a proposal to allocate 3.5 million shekels (US$1 million) toward documenting the testimony of Holocaust survivors worldwide. Read more

PA Foreign Minister visits Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

The ambassador of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to Germany, Leith Arafa, published a photo in which he was seen next to the Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, during a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin last Thursday. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: With friends like these. Read more

Victorian Liberal leader says his party is “safe” and “centrist”

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has issued a plea to voters to believe in his “safe” and “centrist” party, following days of damaging claims about extremist candidates. Read more

Is it fair that children should suffer because of the deeds of their parents?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine key to ending Jew-bashing at UN

The United Nations favourite sport – Jew bashing – was on full display this past week at the 77^th Session of the United Nations Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) – which approved six draft resolutions – all highly critical of Israel. Read more

Far-right hinders Netanyahu coalition bid

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to swiftly form a government have faltered as a prospective far-right coalition partner demands the cabinet role of defence minister. Read more

“Nazi” a no-no in Victorian politics

Leaders of the Liberal opposition in Victoria have slammed the usage of the word “Nazis” in the incumbent Labor party pre-election political bantering. Read more

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