New leadership for AUJS

AUJS has held its Annual General Meeting, as leaders from across Australia and New Zealand gathered together to discuss policy priorities and elect the new leadership team for 2024. Read more

Veterans of the Yom Kippur War join UIA webinars

UIA is honoured to be hosting two veterans of the Yom Kippur War in commemoration of the 50^th anniversary of this remarkable battle – Brig. Gen. Ret. Avigdor Kahalani and Major General (res.) Uzi Dayan-on two webinars on 19 September. Read more

9/11 memorialised in Israel

As the world commemorated the 22^nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Keren Kayemeth Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF- USA), and the Embassy of the United States of America in Israel held their annual memorial ceremony to honour those who perished during the dreadful attacks. Read more

Protests grip Israel ahead of judicial reform ruling

There have been renewed protests in Israel on the day before an eagerly awaited court hearing on the government’s controversial judicial reform plans. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rosalind Philippa Phillips (Linda Phillips) – Composer, journalist, music critic and musician

Linda was born in Melbourne on 8 June 1899 to Joseph – of Russian descent – and Augusta Phillips. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas’s antisemitic rant draws condemnation

Mahmoud Abbas, who is at the same time president of the Palestinian Authority, chairman of the PLO and chairman of the Fatah movement, shared his theories about Ashkenazi Jews on Aug. 24, claiming they are the descendants of Khazars and that Adolf Hitler had Jews slaughtered not because they were Jews but because of their “social role” as moneylenders. Read more

NYT ignores Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution at its peril

The continuing failure of The New York Times (NYT) to inform its readers of the existence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) in the fifteen months since its first publication on 8 June 2022 breaches the solemn pledge made to NYT readers in 1996. Read more

Teshuvah is for everyone

No moment in Jewish history was as breathtaking as the revelation at Sinai. Read more

Israel poised to become key transport hub but will strain ties with China

World leaders attending the G20 summit in New Delhi announced plans to create a transportation corridor between India and Europe via the Middle East. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Little Authority of Horrors Read more

Israeli security reserve officers denounce former Mossad director’s ‘pitiful, baseless claim’ 

The Israel Defence and Security Forum, which represents 20,000 Israeli reserve officers and soldiers, issued a sharp condemnation of recent statements by Tamir Pardo, a former Mossad director, which it called “pitiful and baseless.” Read more

The cruel lessons of the Oslo debacle remain unlearned

We’ve seen this movie before. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas says something awful and antisemitic. Read more

The utopian Jewish life of ‘You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’

This week, I joined fellow Jewish educators, tweens, and countless other Jews and Jew-curious Netflix binge-watchers and entered into the world of middle-school drama and coming-of-age angst encapsulated in “You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”…writes Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath. Read more

Dry Bones: Another Soros

Alex Soros seems to be more George Soros-y than his father. Who knows what he’s capable of doing with all that money? Read more

UIA, ZFA and Taglit plan amazing Israel trip for young Australians

UIA, in partnership with the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) and Taglit, will send 40 young adults on a Birthright trip of a lifetime. Read more

You Don’t Have To Be Jewish

Veteran West End theatre couple Linal Haft and Buster Skeggs will return to the stage together for the Australian premiere of the legendary musical sketch comedy revue You Don’t Have To Be Jewish. Read more

On the other hand

Customer service in Israel has in the past been a rather patchy affair. Read more

Israeli researchers create synthetic embryos from stem cells

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have successfully created complete synthetic models of human embryos using laboratory-grown stem cells. Read more

Death of a Salesman

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Israel gears up to send aid to quake-stricken Morocco

Israel is preparing to send search and rescue personnel and humanitarian aid to Morocco after an earthquake killed at more than 1,000 in the North African country on Friday. Read more

Tubular Bells for Two

A  music review by Alex First Read more

A Nazi speech in Ramallah tells a much larger tale

Last Wednesday, a spat between Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan caused an international uproar. Read more

Musk vs. Greenblatt is the unspeakable vs. the uneatable

The cage fight now taking place between the U.S. Anti-Defamation League and the world’s richest man Elon Musk is, as Oscar Wilde might have observed, a contest between the unspeakable and the uneatable. Read more

Dry Bones: ‘Thomas the accuser’

In response to reports of progress in normalization talks between Jerusalem and Riyadh, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman begged U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to not allow themselves to become Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “useful idiots.” Read more

Days of pain and joy

We are now in the Jewish month of Elul. In the Northern Hemisphere, we say goodbye to the ‘lazy hazy crazy days of summer’, as the song goes. Pleasure is over, back to business. Read more

Shabbat Nitzavim and Vayeylech: Secrets

This week’s Torah includes this sentence. “The hidden ( secrets) belong to our God and the revealed things are for us and our children forever. To carry out all the words of this Torah” (Deuteronomy 29:28). Read more

Nicola Benedetti performs Marsalis

An SSO review by Shirley Politzer Read more

120 years on, a plaque indicates Herzl’s house

As part of events marking  120 years since the passing of Theodor Herzl, a plaque has been unveiled on the house in Vienna where he lived at the time of the First Zionist Congress in 1897. Read more

Labor official slammed by NSWJBD president

A NSW Labor official, Amanda Fazio, has faced widespread condemnation for engaging in an anti-Semitic tirade on social media. Read more

Par for the course

The Jewish year may be winding down but Jews and Israel continue to dominate the news one way or another. Read more

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