The Palestinians’ World Cup propaganda victory

As it does every four years, the world is going crazy over the World Cup. And, as always in international sports events where nationalism is mixed with fans’ passion for their favourite teams, unpleasantness emerged in Qatar. This one involved the Palestinians. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph Jacobs – folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer

Joseph, the sixth surviving son of John and Sarah Jacobs, was born on 29 August 1854 in Sydney.  His father was a publican who had emigrated from London in 1837. Read more

Blowing the whistle on FIFA’s systemic antisemitism

The FIFA World Cup in Qatar has arguably become the most controversial to date, raising widespread indignation over myriad issues concerning its host, including Qatar’s decision to ban beer from stadiums and its mistreatment of the press, the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers, 6,500 of whom have died since Qatar was awarded the Cup. Read more

‘Ukraine’s fight is also a fight for the world’s future’

Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko was waiting for me at the entrance to his office on the tenth floor of City Hall. “Shalom,” he said in Hebrew before switching to English: “How are you? I must apologise, but I have to go to a meeting with the military that cannot be delayed. I’ll be back in 45 minutes. Please wait for me and help yourself to coffee in the meantime.” Read more

Chanukah

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On the other hand

A startling new report has ranked Israel as the fifth safest country for tourists. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Itchy & Scratchy Read more

The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonization strategy

One of the favourite strategies deployed by Jew-baiters is to divide the community into Good Jews and Bad Jews. Read more

The White House met with Jewish leaders to discuss antisemitism. Now what?

Wednesday’s high-profile White House roundtable on antisemitism garnered plenty of headlines. Now, according to those present, the real work starts. Read more

Maoz Tsur

As children at Chanukah time, as we lit the candles, we would sing “ Maoz Tzur Yeshuati, the cat’s in the cupboard and she can’t see me. How many kittens has he got? Ten or Twenty I forgot.” Read more

Dover Heights Chanukah in the Park

It’s that time again when Sydney’s Dover Heights Shule’s spectacular annual “Chanukah in the park” event will take place at Dudley Page Reserve, Dover Heights on Sunday, 18th December, the first night of Chanukah. Read more

Time to be resolute

Viktor Frankl, the renowned Austrian psychiatrist who was a Shoah survivor, wrote: “to suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.” Read more

Henry Greener schmoozes with Hallely Kimchi

Hallely Kimchi leads our Israeli community as the ZFA Habayit Events Co-ordinator for special events such as Festibayit, which brings together people to enjoy Israeli culture, music, food, arts and entertainment. Read more

Will Kosher reindeer go mainstream?

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Shabbat Vayetzey: Frenemies

The dramatic encounter between Jacob and Esau has come to be regarded as a model for relations between Jews and non-Jews. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Senator Simon Birmingham

Maurice Klein speaks with Senator Simon Birmingham, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, discussing Australia’s Labor Government’s decision to reverse the previous Coalition Government’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, along with a number of negative anti-Israel voting backflips at the United Nations.  CAN ISRAEL TRUST THE ALBANESE GOVERNMENT? Read more

Andrew had nowhere to sit, so he stood up and played: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

When Andrew Haveron walked on stage at the Sydney Opera House concert hall last night carrying his violin, his usual chair was occupied by associate concertmaster Harry Bennetts. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Alida Lipton

Yoga Teacher Alida Lipton, the first female President of AJAX Football Club, has been appointed this week to lead the iconic Jewish football club into a bright, promising future. Read more

Is Alan Dershowitz right to warn against the ‘override clause’?

The enthusiastic response of the “anybody but Bibi” camp to a video message delivered on Friday by renowned criminal attorney Alan Dershowitz through the Hebrew news site Ynet is amusing. Read more

Is the world waking up to the atrocities of the ayatollahs?

It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent tyranny that loathes women, dissidents and anyone who does not conform to its theocratic ideology. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rosa Smith  – her mission in life was only to help others

Rosa Smith was born Rosa Henriques in Port Maria, Jamaica, in 1853. Read more

On the other hand

Have you ever tasted the difference between organically grown vegetables and the commercially available variety in supermarkets? Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: U.N.ETFLIX  Read more

NYT needs to end silence on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The visit to Hebron this week by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Kathleen Kingsbury, The New York Times Opinion Editor, could see the NYT finally breaking its silence on the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine proposal published in the Saudi Arabian government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022. Read more

$70,000 in grants for Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs

Member for the NSW State electorate Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton has announced that $400,000 in grants have been secured for 15 community organisations in the Vaucluse Electorate through the NSW Government’s 2022 Community Building Partnership Program. Read more

What is the best way to give charity?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake

A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again. Read more

Circumcision

The month of Kislev that we have just entered is when we celebrate Chanukah and the rebellion against Greek overlords more than 2,000 years ago. Read more

Stable doors and bolting horses

This well known expression is generally understood as “to be so late in taking action to prevent something bad happening that the bad event has already happened.” Read more

Jack Chrapot tells Henry Greener why he is wild about Harry

AJAX Footy Stalwart Jack Chrapot has never missed a match day as a club man and junior team manager for over 40 years. Read more

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