The key lesson from Ukraine for international order
April 8, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
It’s taken the horrors in Ukraine for people to begin to register that a central pillar of world affairs since the Second World War has crumbled. Even now, though, the full implications aren’t acknowledged. Read more
Israel and Bhutan improve their ties in Canberra
April 8, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Embassy of Israel in Australia and the ACT Jewish Centre have jointly hosted an informal gathering with representatives from the Royal Bhutanese Embassy, Canberra and the Australia-Bhutanese community. Read more
Failed priests and prophets
April 8, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
There seems to me to be a permanent state of conflict in all religions between religious authority and individual spirituality or mysticism. Read more
Inconvenient revelations
April 8, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Very often there are news items that upset conventional thinking and as a consequence, they sink without trace. Read more
The Duke: A movie review by Alex First
April 7, 2022 by Alex First
Based on fact, The Duke is the story of a 60-year-old old British man who in 1961 allegedly stole a painting worth £140,000 from the National Gallery in London. Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life – Maurice Klein responds to Zoe Daniel signing virulent anti-Israel Open Letter
April 7, 2022 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein responds to the Australian Jewish Association’s Vice President, Alan Freedman, who called out former ABC journalist Zoe Daniel standing as “climate (corporate) independent” in the seat of Goldstein. Read more
Shabbat Metzora and Shabbat HaGadol: A Special Shabbat
April 7, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
Antisemitism at UAP rally
April 6, 2022 by Julie Nathan
A rally took place on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 29 March 2022 organised by the United Australia Party (UAP). Its advertisement in UAP-yellow labelled it the “Budget Day Rally” to begin at “Parliament House at 11am”, with “Craig Kelly and many other headline speakers.” Nothing out of the ordinary. Read more
A Ramadan intifada?
April 6, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
The Muslim month of Ramadan, which began on Friday night, is already proving to be the challenge that Israeli authorities had anticipated. Palestinians and radicalized Arab Israelis swarming the Old City of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate on Saturday and Sunday attacked police, who were stationed at the site to keep the peace. Read more
Ambulance: a movie review by Alex First
April 6, 2022 by Alex First
Just a fairly typical day in the life of a paramedic. Hardly! Read more
Podcast – L’Chaim to Life: Mythbuster on Gareth Evans
April 5, 2022 by Features Desk
David Schulberg busts another myth, this time one from Gareth Evans. In comparison, hear NSW MP Mark Latham’s support for the Jewish community in Parliament. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past: Issac Herbert Boas – continuing the story of the Boas family – an industry leader
April 5, 2022 by Features Desk
You may remember reading that Abraham and Elizabeth Boas had ten children – their sons all excelling in their career paths.
Feintooner
April 5, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Ministers of Peace. Read more
Hamilton: a theatre review by Alex First
April 5, 2022 by Alex First
Dramatic, emotional, evocative. Electrifying. Triumphant. Read more
Kosher Korean Cuisine at The North Shore Synagogue
April 5, 2022 by Community newsdesk
The North Shore Synagogue together with the Israel Institute of Sydney recently presented a fascinating afternoon of Kosher Korean cuisine. Read more
The ubiquitous ‘Fiddler’ again makes it way to the big screen
April 5, 2022 by Alan Zeitlin
How did a non-Jewish director make one of the best Jewish films of all time? Did Frank Sinatra think he could play the part of Tevye? And why did Israeli prime ministers Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion leave a lasting impression on Norman Jewison, who directed the 1971 hit drama-comedy-musical “Fiddler on the Roof?” Read more
Questioning Israel’s Right To Exist
April 4, 2022 by Sheree Trotter
The Survey of Antisemitism in New Zealand 2021 was released last week by the New Zealand Jewish Council. The survey covers a range of manifestations of antisemitism including far-right nationalist, Islamic, leftist and anti-Zionist. Read more
Six short takeaways for Israel from the war in Ukraine
April 4, 2022 by Robert Gregory
The geopolitical situation in Ukraine is vastly different to Israel, however, there are several lessons that have wider applications. Read more
Optimist or a pessimist?
April 4, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Jordan and Israel can end the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict
April 4, 2022 by David Singer
It took Jordan’s King Abdullah II just 10 minutes to fly by helicopter from Jordan to Ramallah on 26 March to meet Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah – which is only 15 minutes’ drive from Jerusalem – Abdullah’s first trip to Judea and Samaria (West Bank) since 2017. Read more
On the other hand
April 3, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Hating Jews has once again become fashionable. Read more
Fabricating antisemitism: The case of Gil Ofarim
April 3, 2022 by Ben Cohen
Back in October, I wrote about the strange case of Gil Ofarim, a popular German Jewish singer who levelled a charge of antisemitic discrimination against an employee of the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany. Read more
Don’t reward Palestinians for a new wave of terror
April 1, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
After a week of terror attacks that took the lives of 11 people, Israelis are wondering whether they are on the brink of a third intifada. Read more
Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda
April 1, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
When an Arab terrorist murdered five Israelis in Bnei Brak this week by opening fire indiscriminately with an M-16 rifle, Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip and the “West Bank” handed out sweets in celebration and held jubilant rallies. Read more
Mazel
April 1, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
I was reading the Roman historian Suetonius (around 69-122 CE) on the twelve Roman Caesars, and I came across this, “Tiberius abolished foreign cults in Rome particularly the Egyptian and Jewish, forcing all those who embraced superstitions to burn their religious vestments and other accessories.” Read more
Under the radar
April 1, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
If something is flying under the radar it usually means that it is undetected or unseen. Read more
Iran, Russia and a potentially disastrous new US-brokered nuclear deal
April 1, 2022 by J-Wire News Service
Dr Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, and a former terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, addressed the latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar, where his topic was, “Iran, Russia and a Potentially Disastrous New US Brokered Nuclear Deal”. Read more
L’Chaim-To Life: Vic Alhadeff
March 31, 2022 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Vic Alhadeff, former CEO of NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, past editor of the AJN and currently Non-Executive Director on the SBS Board, about his play “Torn Apart by War”. Read more
Mozart, Haydn and Schubert according to Umberto Clerici: A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
March 31, 2022 by Fraser Beath McEwing
The SSO hit the popularity bullseye last night with symphonies by Mozart and Schubert along with Haydn’s trumpet concerto. Read more
ISIS in Israel? An expert tells TPS ‘An ISIS connection to recent terrorist attacks must be questioned’
March 31, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Is anyone other than ISIS – also known as Islamic State – behind the terrorists from Umm al-Fahm and the Negev who perpetrated the recent terrorist attacks in Hadera and Be’er Sheva? Read more
