Feintooner
March 23, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon. The two faces of moral hypocrisy. Read more
Why can’t Jews and non-Jews paray together?
March 23, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Swimming with the tide: athlete, actor, volunteer and Israeli supporter Mark Spitz
March 23, 2022 by Howard Blas
Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in the 1972 games. Read more
The power of laughter: IDF medical clown volunteers with Ukrainian refugees
Two weeks ago, Nimrod Eisenberg—a military medical clown—was ordered to get ready for a possible trip to war-torn Ukraine, “a kind of call up of reserve forces.” Only in his case, instead of packing an ironed uniform and a beret, he filled his duffel bag with a felt duck, colourful juggling balls, a clown hat, balloons, and last but not least, a red foam nose. Read more
Zelensky’s unfortunate Knesset address
March 23, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Clearly realizing, or having been told by advisers, that he’d crossed a line in his Zoom speech to the Knesset on Sunday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky subsequently softened his tone. Read more
Source: Republican leader whips up votes against antisemitism nominee Deborah Lipstadt
March 23, 2022 by Dmitriy Shapiro
Ahead of a likely vote on the nomination for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, how many Republicans, if any, will vote to favorably report her nomination out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee remains to be seen. Read more
Beersheva terrorist appeared to have ‘acted in line with ISIS manuals’
March 23, 2022 by Yaakov Lappin
Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, an Israeli man in his mid-30s from the Bedouin town of Houra who murdered four Israelis in a combined car-ramming and knife-stabbing attack in Beersheva on Tuesday, appeared to have acted in line with instructions found in ISIS attack manuals, a senior terrorism expert has told JNS. Read more
Guterres dawdles as Russia-Ukraine war impacts other UN members
March 21, 2022 by David Singer
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ continuing failure to take any concrete action to help end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has now seen that conflict threatening to seriously impact many of the other 191 member States of the UN. Read more
The first NSW Jewish legislator: Sir Saul Samuel topic of a talk in parliament
March 21, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
On Wednesday. NSW Parliament presents one of its regular talks dealing with the history of the precinct. Read more
Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran
March 18, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In his address to the U.S. Congress this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. President Joe Biden in a plea for American air defences against Russian bombardment from the sky: “You are the leader of your great nation. I wish you to be the leader of the world.” Read more
US ambassador to Israel calls settlement growth ‘infuriating,’ backs a divided Jerusalem
March 18, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides joined Americans for Peace Now (APN) in a webinar on Tuesday to discuss his new job and what his vision is for the region. “I’m centre-left,” he said. “I’m left generally, but I put in the ‘centre’ just to make myself feel better.” Read more
Post-Purim reality checks
March 18, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
The festivities are over, the fancy costumes and masks are put away for another year and it is time to take note of the real world again. Read more
Masada video a hit in America
March 18, 2022 by Community newsdesk
A Purim video produced by Sydney’s Masada College staff has been shared on the American publication “Jewish Humur Central”. Read more
Emanuel says no to bullying
March 18, 2022 by Community newsdesk
Today is National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence and Sydney’s Emanuel School’s staff and Year 12 students make their point. A J-Wire photostory. Read more
Labor’s visa policy
March 17, 2022 by Community newsdesk
Labor Senator Kristina Keneally, Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, and Julian Hill MP, the Federal Member for Bruce go to Zoom to announce Labor’s policy for visas. Read more
JCCV reinstates person-to-person events
March 17, 2022 by Community newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has delivered their first Jewish Immersion Day program person-to-person since the beginning of the pandemic. Read more
“Israel’s Ukraine policy: ‘Right side of history’ vs national interest”
March 17, 2022 by Efraim Inbar
History has no right side and it does not evolve according to moral imperatives. Read more
Chabad in Kishinev provides Purim cheer for Ukrainian refugees
March 17, 2022 by JNS
The narrow alleyway leading to the Chabad House in Kishinev, Moldova, was blocked by a truck; the beautiful, 130-year-old synagogue is undergoing a comprehensive overhaul. Workers are pouring concrete. Read more
Ukraine’s battle for survival offers multiple lessons for Israel
March 17, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
As Russia pushes further into Ukraine and threatens its capital Kyiv—and as Russian President Vladimir Putin appears unfazed and undeterred by Western nations willing to sanction Russia through economic means, but afraid to fight militarily to save innocent Ukrainian civilians—the question arises: What could the world have done to deter Putin? And what does this mean for the State of Israel? Read more
Tsav: Eat together
March 17, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
There are four obligations on Purim. To read the Megillah of Esther, to give charity to the poor and gifts to our friends, and to have a celebratory meal, a seudah. Read more
Purim concert to be zoomed to care homes
March 16, 2022 by Community newsdesk
‘Believe more in the threats of our enemies than in the promises of our allies’
March 16, 2022 by Ron Weiser
Some years ago, I heard the head of an Israeli think tank say, that Jewish life is a constant tension between two, often clashing, narratives. Read more
Why does the world care what Israel does about Ukraine?
March 16, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It has long been axiomatic that Israel—a tiny country whose people comprise a tenth of a percent of the world’s population and whose landmass is an exponentially smaller fraction of a percent of the planet’s landmass—gets the sort of media attention that would be appropriate for one of the largest nations. Read more
Global Torah learning programs targeting women
March 16, 2022 by Community newsdesk
After successfully launching in Melbourne in May, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia is hosting an event dedicated to showcasing global Torah learning programs that are available to Australian women who want to further their Torah knowledge. Read more
Feintooner
March 15, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon. Oliver Twisty negotiations. Read more
10,000 PayPal users give gold coin donation to OHPI
March 15, 2022 by Community newsdesk
During February, as part of PayPal Australia’s support for the eSafety Commissioner’s Safer Internet Day initiatives, the Online Hate Prevention Institute was featured in PayPal’s Give At Checkout, fundraising homepage and in the PayPal consumer app and account.
My 64-hour mission to save two newborns in war-torn Ukraine
Right before Shabbat I received a phone call in Chișinău, Moldova from my father-in-law Eli Beer, the president and founder of United Hatzalah of Israel. He told me that there was a two-day-old child that needed to be rescued from Kyiv. The newborn had been delivered by a surrogate and the mother was in Israel…writes Aharon ben-Harush. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Arthur Leslie Benjamin – music was his life
March 15, 2022 by Features Desk
Arthur was born on 18 September 1893 in Sydney and at the age of three, his family moved to Brisbane. Read more
Washington’s betrayal has only just begun
March 14, 2022 by Caroline Glick - JNS
The Washington Examiner reported last week that Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers are actively plotting to murder former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. Read more
UNGA & Guterres fiddle while Ukraine & the UN Charter burn
March 14, 2022 by David Singer
It is incomprehensible that the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has held its Fifth Consultation on Our Common Agenda (Fifth Consultation) on 10 March at the same time as 2.597 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their country which is being reduced to rubble following Russia’s invasion on 24 February. Read more
