While military lifts ban on Israelis returning to Homesh, it will be years until they do

The head of the Israel Defence Forces’ Central Command on Thursday signed off on an order allowing Israelis to return to what was once the northern Samaria community of Homesh. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Singing from the same hymnal. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution: Alive or Dead?

Two seemingly contradictory news reports within the space of 48 hours have thrown into doubt the possible implementation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (HKOPS) to end the unresolved 100-year conflict between Jews and Arabs. Read more

Julian Leeser sets the wheels of criminalisation of Nazi symbolism into motion

Federal MP Julian Leeser has revived efforts to impose an Australia-wide ban on Nazi symbols. Read more

Can you tell me something about Shavuot?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

A special UIA award for Penny Hurst

Penny Hurst has been honoured at the Keren Hayesod-UIA Awards of Excellence Gala Dinner as part of the 2023 International Women’s Division Mifgash, held in Israel recently. Read more

Jerusalem Day celebrates city’s Jewish ties and diversity

Jerusalem Day celebrates Jewish ties to the holy city. Read more

White House wants Saudi-Israel deal by year’s end

The White House is pressing for an Israeli-Saudi peace deal in the next six months before U.S. President Joe Biden goes into full campaign mode, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials. Read more

On Jerusalem Day a look at Jerusalem of old

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund has released photos offering a glimpse of life into Jerusalem during the early years of the British Mandate in honour of today’s Jerusalem Day. Read more

The Coronation

Whatever one may or may not think of monarchy, the coronation of King Charles was a magnificent pageant. Read more

Christiane Amanpour and the Institutionalisation of media bias

At what point do we just shrug and no longer bother to even complain about a biased press? Read more

CNN’s Amanpour yet to retract calling murder of Dee women a ‘shootout’

The earliest recorded use of the term “shootout”—defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a sustained exchange of shooting, a gun-fight”—comes from a 1953 New York Times article, which refers to a “justly famous shoot-out between the Earps and the Clantons in the O-K Corral.” Read more

Soros, antisemitism and the progressive assault on language

One of the key characteristics of our difficult times is the way in which the progressive left has hijacked language. Read more

The weaponisation of antisemitism against conservatives

A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponised antisemitism against it. Read more

A Capital Offence

One of the synonyms for a capital offence is a heinous crime. Read more

Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million

First, there was the possibility that Renaissance man par excellence Leonardo da Vinci was Jewish. Now, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, beat da Vinci’s Codex Leicester as the most expensive book ever sold at auction. Read more

Joe Biden’s empty words about antisemitism

For those who think what Jews need is more official recognition of their heritage, it was a great afternoon. Read more

New coalition tensions flare as Otzma Yehudit Party boycotts Knesset vote

Tensions within Israel’s governing coalition flared out in the open on Wednesday as the right-wing Otzma Yehudit party boycotted a Knesset vote on Wednesday. Read more

Shabbat B’Midbar: War and Conscription

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CSG, JCCV partner in crisis planning

The JEMP committee and volunteers served our community well for over 20 years, providing crisis planning. Read more

Those irritating antisemitic thugs: how low can they go?

Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Florida, picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. Read more

A blend of the familiar, the unfamiliar and the new: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Having Wolfgang in your name would seem to direct your destiny towards musical composition. It certainly did with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, (1897 – 1957)  whose only symphony was played by the SSO last night. Read more

Israeli foreign minister announces: ‘No tweets like this again’

First, Elon Musk tweeted something at the very least ungenerous about George Soros. Read more

Leo Dee in talks to become Israeli special envoy to Jewish world

Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has offered Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife and two daughters in a Palestinian terrorist attack, to become a special envoy to Jewish communities worldwide. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Holocaust survivor Suzi Steed

Maurice Klein speaks with Suzi Smeed, who was just two years old when her family was swept up in the Hungarian Holocaust as the Nazis stormed into Budapest with the goal of rounding up all the Jews and freighting them to Auschwitz for extermination. Read more

Jerusalem to be Israel’s first million-denizen city

Jerusalem is on track to become Israel’s first city with more than one million residents, according to data published ahead of Thursday’s celebrations marking 56 years of a reunified capital. Read more

2,000-year-old financial record unearthed on Jerusalem’s Pilgrimage Road

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a remarkable financial record dating back 2,000 years on the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare during the Second Temple period. Read more

May-30 5:10pm SBS-World Movies: The Great Dictator

A Jewish barber loses his memory after a plane crash. Read more

May-28 3:00pm Sydney: In your 70s? A mix and mingle event

An opportunity to meet new people in your age group. Read more

In your 70s? A mix and mingle event

An opportunity to meet new people in your age group. Read more

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