Fatal delusions

On Yom Kippur, we prayed that in the coming year, we should be spared various afflictions. Read more

Making selichot easy for the disabled

Yad Sarah has facilitated an accessible tour of Jerusalem and the Old City, enabling wheelchair users to experience selichot ahead of Yom Kippur. Read more

UEFA chief in Jerusalem

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog hosted the President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Aleksander Čeferin, in his office in Jerusalem. Read more

Henri Jacques Ninio (1935-2023)

Henri Jacques Ninio passed away in Adelaide on the day before Yom Kippur, a few weeks before his 88th birthday. Read more

Rabbi Raymond Apple on Sukkot

Sukkot says a great deal about Judaism. Read more

What is not fit to print is printed. What is fit to print is not printed.

A New York Times reporter got away with posting a strangely worded, one-sided feature that sends a message that the Palestinians are long-established inhabitants of the land that is now governed by the state of Israel. The Palestinians  are even described as “indigenous.” Read more

Oct-03 5:55pm SBS-World Movies: Fill the Void

Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv and is about to be married off to a promising young man. Read more

Oct-03 9:30pm SBS-TV: Dateline – Making a Militant

Dateline reports from the West Bank where a new militant network, The Lion’s Den, has triggered a wave of violence and is weaponising social media to recruit young Palestinians. Read more

Worldwide Sukkah Directory 

A worldwide registry of Sukkahs is now listed online at www.localsukkah.org. Read more

Love Lust Lost (Broad Encounters)

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Washington’s UN envoy blasts Abbas, Jewish violence in Security Council meeting

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, had harsh words for both Israelis and Palestinians at the U.N. Security Council’s monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian file on Wednesday. Read more

Netanyahu: The ’diplomatic tsunami’ is in Israel’s favour

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, opening the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday, touted his government’s diplomatic achievements at last week’s U.N. General Assembly session. Read more

Ben-Gvir nixes Tel Aviv prayers after counter-protesters agree to move service

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Wednesday evening the cancellation of a planned prayer service in Tel Aviv after organizers of a counterdemonstration said they were moving their mixed-gender prayers away from Dizengoff Square in a bid to avoid a confrontation. Read more

Canada PM apologises after MPs praise Nazi veteran

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologised after the Speaker of the House of Commons praised a Nazi veteran in the chamber while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was present. Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim to Life: Rabbi Yoseph Nerenberg

Maurice Klein speaks with Rabbi Yoseph Nerenberg, Manager of Jewish Life at Jewish Care, who started off as assistant Rabbi and kosher supervisor at Montefiore Homes and has been Rabbi of Age Care at Gary Smorgon House since it opened in 2009, managing the department that puts the Jewish and the L’Chaim in Jewish Care. Read more

Succot: Fun or Politics

Succot is the most innovative and multifaceted of all our Festivals. Coming after the solemn Holy Days it is the most fun, too. And it concludes with a day of national unity, something that seems as unlikely and remote now, as it ever did in the past. Read more

Zionism Victoria thanks Daniel Andrews and welcomes Jacinta Allan

Zionism Victoria President Yossi Goldfarb has thanked outgoing Premier Daniel Andrews for his steadfast support of both Israel and the community over his many years in office. Read more

Prestigious award for Jon

Jon Pillemer has been awarded the coveted Charles Valentine Medal by Football NSW, recognizing his exceptional contributions to the development of the sport in the region. Read more

Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Expanding the circle of peace is a historic opportunity’

Yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, together with President Isaac Herzog, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, attended the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the Yom Kippur War. Read more

Israel’s Minister of Tourism arrives in Saudi Arabia for tourism summit

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Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: United Nations Stepping Stone Read more

Canada’s House speaker apologises for Nazi gaffe

The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons has apologised for praising in parliament an individual who served in a Nazi unit during World War II. Read more

High-level Saudi delegation due to arrive in Ramallah

A Saudi delegation will arrive in Ramallah on Tuesday to meet with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas amid an ongoing U.S.-led diplomatic effort to normalize relations between Riyadh and Israel. Read more

Why the referendum holds special meaning for Australia’s Jewish community

Collective Jewish memory is the essence of our faith. It is the intimate knowledge that exists deep within each of us and belongs to all of us…writes Dr Aharon Friedland. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Johanna, George and Judit Korner – a family international beauty business

Johanna was born on 21 July 1891 at Fogaras, Hungary (Romania) to Alfred Adler, a photographer, and his wife Helena. Read more

Oct-19 10:30am SBS-World Movies: The Physician

In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon’s apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians. Read more

Heil Hitler coded on a NSW number plate

Transport for NSW will face calls to enhance its hate speech filters following the discovery of a neo-Nazi phrase on a Sydney number plate this week. Read more

50 years since the Yom Kippur War: KKL – JNF unveils rare photos from the battlefield for the first time

The Yom Kippur War broke out on Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, with an attack by Arab armies against Israel, led by Syria and Egypt, with support from Arab states, primarily Iraq and Jordan. Read more

My Father’s Shadow: a memoir – written by Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

On the other hand

Usually, the day after we pray for rain at the end of Succot, the heavens open up, and the long-awaited precipitation descends. Read more

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