Door open for Sydney United to join second-tier: FA

Racist behaviour by some Sydney United 58 fans won’t prevent the club from entering Australian soccer’s proposed second-tier competition. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Shlomo Weintraub – Samuel Wynn – Wine Merchant and active Zionist

Shlomo (Samuel), the son of Michael and Rivkah Weintraub, was born on 4 April 1891 in Ushimow near Lodz, Russia (Poland).  Read more

Made in China 2.0: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

I am faced with a predicament that I can’t say I have confronted too many times in four decades of reviewing. Read more

Ehud Ya’ari: Israel in “one of the most serious crises that I can remember”

Pre-eminent Israeli political commentator and Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Fellow Ehud Ya’ari has addressed AIJAC supporters in Sydney, covering the current internal disputes raging within Israel over proposed judicial reforms. Read more

On the other hand

Trees throughout Israel have burst forth with blossoms of all colours. Read more

Three charged for displaying nazi symbols

Last October, the Australia Cup final between Sydney United and McArthur FC became a showgound for nazi saluting fans. Read more

NSW Liberals have plans to safer schools

Action to make schools in NSW a safer space for all students and staff will be at the heart of a landmark 10-year partnership between a re-elected NSW Liberal and Nationals Government and the State’s religious communities. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Biden’s new horizon for peace?

The Aqaba Joint Communique issued by the US Department of State suggests that President Biden could be jettisoning his support for UN Security Council Resolution 2334 calling for the creation of a sovereign independent Palestinian Arab State between Israel and Jordan (two-State Solution). Read more

Australian Jewish leadership voices concern about Israel’s government

In a joint statement, The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia are calling on Israel’s government to act on President Herzog’s call to halt its controversial move to reform the judiciary. Read more

Can women say Kaddish?  

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Two charges dropped against ultra-Orthodox principal

Two charges have been dropped against former ultra-Orthodox Jewish school principal Malka Leifer as they predate when the relevant legislation came into effect. Read more

Manny Waks on a special visit to Melbourne

Child sex abuse advocate Manny Waks is in Melbourne to attend the Malka Leifer. He talks with Henry Greener. Read more

The real threat to Israeli democracy

The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. Read more

Joe Woolf, 94, helped connect fellow veterans of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence

Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence. He died on Feb. 28 at his home in the northern Israeli moshav of Ilaniya. He was 94 years old. Read more

Nicanor Day

It’s the festival you might never have heard of, Nicanor Day, the 13^th of Adar, the day before Purim. Read more

Israel is our business

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. Read more

Recycling

When one thinks of recycling, the generally accepted definition is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Read more

Creed III: a movie review by Alex First

After retiring from the ring three years ago, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) lives to fight another day in Creed III. Read more

Mar-20 00:45am SBS-World Movies: Septembers 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

Mar-19 4:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis – The Reckoning

How do you deal with a people who remained loyal to their regime until the end, who carried out the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of Europe? Read more

Mar-06/7 Sydney: Celebrating Purim and Israel

Purim is fast approaching and The North Shore Synagogue in Lindfield will also be celebrating Israel’s 75th birthday with exciting events planned for all ages. Read more

First Israeli commercial flight crosses Omani skies

An El Al plane flying from Tel Aviv to Bangkok has become the first Israeli commercial flight to cross through Omani airspace. Read more

Readers letters: Adelaide Writers Week

There’s a huge difference between free speech and hate speech, or speech inciting violence. How can the daughter of Holocaust survivors not know this? Read more

Adelaide Writers Week v Melbourne Jewish Book Week

The organisers of the Melbourne Jewish Book Week have something to say about the Adelaide Writers Week, which starts tomorrow. Read more

Rabbi Garry Robuck talks Purim with Henry Greener

Progressive Rabbi Gary Robuck talks about Purim and the joyous events that will be happening at Melbourne’s Temple Beth Israel (TBI), where he has been Head Rabbi for just over a year, with his wife Jocelyn. Read more

Netanyahu: ‘Freedom of protest is not a license to drag the country into anarchy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised address on Wednesday evening, spoke out against the violent protests that roiled the country throughout the day, in some cases leading to clashes with police. Read more

Protesters trap Sara Netanyahu in hair salon

Thousands of protesters blocked the entrance to a hair salon Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife, was visiting on Wednesday night. Hundreds of security forces were called to the scene to rescue her. Read more

Empire of Light: a movie review by Alex First

Set in the English coastal town of Margate during the turbulent early 1980s, Empire of Light is a sensitive drama romance. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Julie Nathan on Report on Antisemitism in Australia 2022

Morry Frenkel speaks with Julie Nathan, Research Director at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), about the recently published Report on Antisemitism in Australia 2022. Read more

Woman ‘distraught’ disclosing alleged Leifer abuse

One of three sisters allegedly sexually abused by former ultra-Orthodox Jewish school principal Malka Leifer was distraught when revealing what happened to her, a court has been told. Read more

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