UN Security Council hails Lapid’s ‘two-state’ commitment, questions Israeli counterterrorism ops

As the United Nations Security Council met on Wednesday, a recurrent theme emerged. Council members lauded Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s support for a two-state solution while simultaneously expressing concern over growing instability in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Read more

Cyrano: a theatre review by Alex First

A massive triumph. The MTC production of the season. A talented cast, headlined by writer and star Virginia Gay proves that the pen is mightier than the sword. Read more

Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism

Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews. Read more

Divine Royalty

“Adonai, what is a human being that You should care about him, what is a mortal, that You should consider it?  A human is no more than a breath, a life is like a passing shadow” (Psalms 144.3.).

What can express the vulnerability, the insignificance of human beings, more succinctly than that? Read more

Mikolot Public Speaking Competition goes international

Six students participated at Sydney’s Moriah College in the 2022 Grand Final of the Mikolot: Voices of the Future Public Speaking Competition. Read more

Shabbat Vayeylech and Shuva: Why God hides

The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is always called the Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return. Read more

Jewish director says Facebook banning ads for his Holocaust film was shameful

A son of Holocaust survivors is demanding an apology from Facebook for blocking ads for his newly-released film “Beautiful Blue Eyes.” Read more

NSW rabbis meet Minister Mark Coure

Members of the Rabbinical Council of NSW have met with the NSW Minister for Multiculturalism Mark Coure. Read more

In these days of cybersecurity, Israel can help

A few weeks ago, I came across a tender looking for companies to provide real-time awareness of cybersecurity hacking for the Sydney Opera House’s website.
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I don’t go to shule because it does nothing for me. What advice, if any, can you give me?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Prof Sharon Lewin – Leading the AUSiMED delegation to Israel to discuss each country’s COVID-19 response

Morry Frenkel speaks with Prof Sharon Lewin, inaugural Director of the Peter Doherty Institute, co-chair of the COVID19 Health and Research Advisory Council and member of the AUSiMED Board, about the recent AUSiMED delegation she led to Israel. Read more

Is Italy’s Giorgia Meloni a friend or a foe of the Jews?

The latest parliamentary elections in Italy have sent many in the chattering classes in both Europe and the United States heading for their smelling salts. Read more

Giorgia Meloni: ‘I believe that the existence of Israel is vital’

It appears that history is about to be made in Italy: Giorgia Meloni, the 45-year-old leader of the national conservative party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), has pledged to fight mass immigration and Islamization and has been very critical of the European Union, is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. Read more

Giorgia Meloni and other female conservatives are today’s feminists

There is no doubt that, in historical terms, one of the left’s most important and beloved causes has been women’s emancipation, and rightly so. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: As the axis of evil turns and burns Read more

Instruments of Dance (The Australian Ballet): reviewed by Alex First

The second line of Peter Allen’s iconic anthem, I Still Call Australia Home, contains the words “From New York to Rio and old London Town”. Read more

B’nai B’rith and JBOD raise funds for flood victims

B’nai B’rith Australia and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies banded together to establish an appeal to raise much-needed flood relief funds for communities and individuals affected by February’sdevastinh floods in northern NSW and southern Queensland. Read more

How a Jewish girl went into hiding with a Nazi family

It is the last winter before Germany’s capitulation. The seventeen-year-old Anni Gmitruk walks alongside a man wearing a swastika armband. It’s dark, and the snow crackles under their shoes. They have just been to the cinema in Zerbst, a small city deep in the Third Reich, to see Heimkehr, a classic among Nazi propaganda films. Read more

‘Treat Iran like pariah:’ Haley hits Biden team for relentless pursuit of nuclear deal

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley sharply criticised the Biden administration for its failure to confront the Iranian regime during a special press conference held Wednesday in New York City on the sidelines of the 77th U.N. General Assembly. Read more

Iran’s inspirational protest movement

It’s impossible not be astonished and humbled by the bravery of the Iranian people. Read more

Israel’s choice: independence or appeasement

Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid and his supporters in the media went berserk Tuesday after Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out against the gas deal the Biden administration is mediating between Israel and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Read more

On the other hand

Signs of the approaching Holy days are to be seen everywhere. Read more

With call for Palestinian state at UN, Lapid has defined Israel’s upcoming fifth election

With just 29 words, from the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, temporary caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid may have completely changed Israel’s fifth election landscape from the first four election cycles over the past two-and-a-half years. Read more

Honey

As we approach Rosh Hashanah and think of dipping our apples into honey in the hope of a sweet year, it’s a good time to talk about honey. Read more

NSW Shooters Party leader’s father interned in concentration camps

In 2013, NSW Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party leader Robert Borsak MP shocked participants on a NSW Jewish Board of Deputies-supported trip to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem when he told fellow parliamentarians that his late-father Czeslaw “Chester” Borsak was interned in Majdanek and Buchenwald concentration camps. Read more

With call for Palestinian state at UN, Lapid has defined Israel’s upcoming fifth election

With just 29 words, from the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, temporary caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid may have completely changed Israel’s fifth election landscape from the first four election cycles over the past two-and-a-half years. Read more

The real reason for the war against Israel and the West

As soon as it emerged that Israel’s acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid would tell the United Nations General Assembly this week that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, he was engulfed by outrage, incredulity and dismay. Read more

Beethoven and Schumann favourites: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Every so often, Australian international pianist and teacher Sarah Grunstein forsakes New York to visit to her original home, Sydney and gives a recital in the Opera House’s Utzon Room. Read more

Pray for peace – prepare for action

Peace is always at the forefront of our prayers, but at the same time, most of us should have learnt from bitter past experience that being aware of the challenges ahead is a priority. Read more

Jordan-PLO-Hamas-UN-EU coy on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Hamas, United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) now have to choose between two very different two-state solutions to end the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more

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