L’Chaim to Life: Professor Ariel Porat – the dynamic president of Tel Aviv University

Morry Frenkel speaks in this podcast with Professor Ariel Porat, President Tel Aviv University (TAU) about his recent visit to Australia where he had discussions with local universities and members of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce. Read more

On the other hand

August 1, 2022, was a momentous day for all Israeli citizens aged 75 years and over. Read more

Applications open for the Lippmann Foundation scholarship

Applications are now open for the Marion & Kurt Lippmann Foundation Jewish Community Professional Scholarship. Read more

A paramedic in Israel

Aryeh Myers is a paramedic working with Magen David Adom. He previously worked as a paramedic in the UK and tells J-Wire about the major differences he has experienced in working in two very different environments. Read more

Strengthening Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria

The Australian Jewish Association teamed up with Chabad Double Bay to host an event focused on strengthening the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Read more

Jewish Agency in Russia soldiers on despite tensions, immigration surge

The Jewish Agency, which helps Jews immigrate to Israel, stands on shaky ground in Russia, as a Moscow court is set to hold a trial on its dissolution August 19. Read more

Consequences

We are currently in what is commonly referred to as “the nine days” leading up to 9 Av – the Fast of Tisha B’Av. Read more

Portrait of an Unknown Woman: book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

This is Daniel Silva’s twenty-fifth novel and the 22^nd, with Gabriel Allon as the chief protagonist. Read more

A little lunch music

The aptly named “A little lunch music” is a series of six musical experiences curated by Kathy Selby and Sydney’s City Recital Hall. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Ambassador Paul Griffiths – meet our man in Israel

Maurice Klein speaks with Ambassador Paul Griffiths, Australia’s Ambassador to Israel, since September 2020. Read more

As President Biden said, you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist

On July 13, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel for the tenth visit of his career…writes Noa Tishby Read more

1972 Munich Olympics slaughter from the other side of the street

A telephone call on the morning of Sept. 5, 1972 woke up three East German journalists who had been sent to cover the Munich Olympics. Read more

IDF’s ‘Operation Breakwater’ curbing Palestinian terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria

Since being launched by the Israel Defence Forces in March this year, “Operation Breakwater,” aimed at stopping a wave of deadly Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, has significantly dented the motivation and intent of terrorists in the West Bank to act. Read more

Shabbat Devarim: Optimism despite it all

The Book of Devarim, the last book of the Torah, is dominated by the personality of Moses even more than the previous three books. Read more

Antarctica: An IMAX movie reviewed by Alex First

While it is the coldest place on Earth, where temperatures plunge to as low as 90 degrees below zero and the water temperature is freezing, Antarctica is a surfeit of riches. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Florence Menk-Meyer – known as The Greatest Living Female Pianist

Florence was born Catherine Florence Meyer in 1860 to Menk and Rebecca (nee Fink) in St Kilda Melbourne and was one of six gifted children. Read more

Rabbi on demand

Rabbi Yossi Friedman will cease to be the spiritual leader of Sydney’s Maroubra Shule and retire from his engagement at Mount Sinai College on November 1 but no particular pulpit is waiting for his considerable talent. Read more

What does Judaism say about the right to privacy?

Ask the rabbi.

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UN will rue burying debate on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The United Nations Security Council has lost any authority to broker an end to the Jewish-Arab conflict – after its 26^th July Quarterly Open Debate: “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” proceeded for 5 hours without any speaker making reference to a new solution emanating from Saudi Arabia to resolve the 100 years-old conflict. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…UNhuman Rights Council. Read more

On the other hand

Climate change may be generating soaring temperatures this northern hemisphere summer but in Israel, there are other factors at work. Read more

Just outside Warsaw Ghetto, Ukrainian refugee children strive for a sense of normalcy

It was the summer of 2006, during the Second Lebanon War. Ilana Baird, a refugee from the Soviet Union, fled Haifa with her family and relocated to Jerusalem, where she was finishing her rabbinical studies. Read more

Israeli TV’s shallow, irresponsible stunt

We are accustomed to the concept of wars being waged in the name of religion. There’s less acknowledgment of the war being waged upon religion and on the religious mindset by Western secularists. Read more

Israel’s UN ambassador urges Security Council to put its microscope away

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations had a blunt message for the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. Read more

Universalism

The three weeks from the Seventeenth of Tammuz until the Ninth of Av, have for thousands of years been a period of mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, twice. First by Babylonia in 586 BCE and then by Rome in 70 CE. This period will culminate after the Ninth of Av which this year will be the 7th of August ( actually starting the night before). Read more

Unsolicited Male: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

A boss oversteps the mark and the consequences are devastating in Ron Elisha’s incendiary Unsolicited Male. Read more

When later is already too late

Far too frequently, especially in Jewish lives, postponing difficult decisions can have dire consequences.  Read more

Israel, Jordan, PLO pave way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s meeting with King Abdullah on 27 July could see negotiations being announced shortly between Israel and Jordan to create a single territorial entity encompassing Jordan Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Rabbi Ari Rubin – RARA Jews in Far North Queensland

Maurice Klein speaks with Rabbi Ari Rubin, who is one-half of the fabulous adventure documentary Outback Rabbis, the “lost Jews” of the wilderness with the mission, travelling the country and outback in the RARA (Rural And Regional Australia) Tank in search to leave no Jew behind. Read more

Israel should act cautiously amid Jewish Agency row with Russia, analysts advise

Russia-Israel tensions have intensified in recent days as Moscow appears primed to force the “dissolution” of the Jewish Agency for Israel operations in the country. Read more

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