Hamas says contact lost with group holding five hostages

Hamas says it has lost contact with a group responsible for five Israeli hostages being held captive in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardment. Read more

Hamas fires massive rocket salvo at Tel Aviv, Central Israel

Hamas fired at least 30 rockets at Israel’s central region on Thursday afternoon, in the heaviest barrage in weeks. Read more

Israeli military completes takeover of Gaza’s Shejaiya district

The Israeli military completed its takeover of northern Gaza’s Shejaiya district, dismantling Hamas’s “core capabilities” there, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday. Read more

Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor

Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay’s testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported. Read more

Biden needs to sober up about the Palestinians

It’s a debate the Israeli government neither wants nor thinks it needs to engage in right now. Read more

The revival of an ancient calumny

There’s an unmistakable drumbeat to the antisemitism that’s erupted across the West in the wake of the Oct. 7 pogrom. In response to the genocidal Jew-hatred fuelling Hamas and the Palestinian Arabs, an even older form of the oldest hatred has surfaced—Christian hostility to the Jews. Read more

Dry Bones: Whose rules?

The world failed to come to Israel’s defence after Oct. 7. Read more

If I Am Not for Me

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‘Tell the truth’: ABC office vandalised for second time

The ABC’s Melbourne office has been vandalised after red paint was splattered on windows and messages about the Israel-Palestine conflict scrawled across the building. Read more

Israeli singer Eyal Golan posts Moriah College on Instagram

Sydney’s Moriah College rendition of Israel recording star Eyal Golan’s “Am Yisroel Chai” has been posted on the singer’s own Instagram and reported in newspaper Israel Hayom. Read more

Three wise men

According to Christian tradition, it was about this time of the year that three “wise” men appeared in Bethlehem to visit a newborn Jewish baby. Read more

Hostages’ families step up protests amid reports of new ceasefire

Israeli and Arab officials have, over the past week, ramped up efforts to forge another ceasefire deal between Jerusalem and Hamas. Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim to Life: Michael Gawenda – Journalists are thrashing their own brand

Morry Frenkel speaks with Michael Gawenda, three-time Walkley award recipient,  former editor and editor-in-chief of The Age and inaugural Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism, at the University of Melbourne, about the current state in Australia of journalism and the way it is practiced by journalists, particularly with reference to the Israel-Gaza war. Read more

A soldier’s tale: The parakeet in the abandoned school on the Gaza border

Sderot is located less than a mile from the Gaza Strip. Some ninety per cent of the town’s 30,000 residents fled on October 7 after Hamas invaded southern Israel. Read more

Shabbat Vayigash: Diplomacy

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‘What happened is not your fault’: Mother reaches out to soldiers who mistakenly killed her son

Iris Haim has sent a message to the soldiers who mistakenly killed her son in Gaza to know that she doesn’t blame them for the tragedy. Read more

Israel finds tunnels from Hamas leaders’ homes found

Israeli forces have uncovered a network of tunnels running deep beneath central Gaza City from properties registered to Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas organisers of the October 7 attacks on Israel, the military says. Read more

Gaza ceasefire talks as Hamas, Israel assert demands

“Very serious” negotiations are taking place on a second Gaza ceasefire, the US says, but Hamas and Israel’s conditions make the chances of a deal uncertain. Read more

Don’t drink Coca-Cola says ABC’s TikTok channel

National broadcaster ABC has removed a post on its TikTok account promoting the boycott of Israeli goods. Read more

‘It reminded me of the Holocaust,’ says grandma freed from Gaza

Terrified, hungry and all alone in captivity in Gaza for over a month, Argentinian-born Ofelia Roitman hoarded small pieces of pita bread from the meagre rations she received from her Hamas terrorist captors. Read more

Seinfeld visits Be’eri during solidarity visit to Israel

American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld toured Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the Gaza border communities whose residents were murdered during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught on the northwestern Negev. Read more

Why is there no Palestinian state?

When Jesus the Jew walked the laneways and pathways of Jerusalem, he saw neither mosque nor church, for the religions they represented had not yet come into existence. Read more

Rabbi addresses 500 at Victoria Police Academy

Rabbi Yaakov Glasman, Senior Rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation, was the keynote speaker on leadership and social cohesion in front of 500 Victoria Police cadets, supervisors, Academy leadership and police chaplains at the Police Academy this morning. Read more

Melbourne inner-city council votes for BDS

The inner-city Melbourne Darebin Council voted unanimously to seek ways to get out of contracts from suppliers supporting Israel. Read more

Israel rejects claims two Gazan women killed in church

The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) released details of its investigation into allegations that two women – a mother and daughter – were killed by IDF troops while they were inside a church in Gaza. Read more

Large Jewish communities worldwide work together countering antisemitism

Peter Wertheim, co-CEO of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry joined other leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, via Zoom for two days of consultations in Paris. Read more

Photos of Palestinian kids dressed in Hamas uniforms found amid arms stockpile

Soldiers operating in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza located Hamas sites for the production and storage of munitions, including missiles, the Israel Defence Forces said on Tuesday. Read more

Gaza hospital director admits he worked for Hamas

The director of a Gaza hospital admitted to Israeli interrogators that he was recruited by Hamas to help turn the Strip’s medical centres into military facilities, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced on Tuesday. Read more

Jan-24 5:00am 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

Jan-22 7:40pm SBS World Movies: The Art Dealer

In Paris, Esther is shocked to see her father’s reaction to an 18th-century painting. Read more

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