Clerici and Shamray at The Great

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Israeli company turning smartphones into brain monitors

An Israeli company has turned standard smartphones into neurological monitoring machines backed by artificial intelligence and is about to expand significantly into the American market. Read more

Gathering signatures calling out anti-Israel UN commission of inquiry

Immediately after “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” which began after Hamas in the Gaza Strip started firing barrages of rockets at Jerusalem and its civilian population last May, the U.N. Human Rights Commission, reacting to Israel’s retaliation against Hamas, set up a special permanent inquiry to investigate “all alleged violations and abuses of international human-rights law leading up and since 13 April 2021.” Read more

Maccabi fun run raises funds for Save a Child’s Heart

Maccabi NSW had a great turnout from the Sydney community in support of the Maccabi Life 5km Fun Run on Sunday. Read more

The ayatollahs’ men in Washington

Former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently co-authored a book in Farsi about the 2015 nuclear deal that tells us a great deal about how we should be assessing the nuclear negotiations taking place in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany). Read more

UN: End the jaw-jaw – use Trump to redraw the Israel-Jordan border

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demonstrated that the UN has learnt nothing about resolving the 100 years-old Arab-Jewish conflict when he addressed the gabfest held by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (Inalienable Rights Committee) in New York on 8 February. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon.  Quid pro no. Read more

On the other hand

Living in Israel one really does not need to have a calendar in order to know when the next festival is approaching. Read more

The Israeli left’s antisemitism blind spot

A great scholar of antisemitism once told me that there was one country that frustrated him when it came to its understanding of the extent and depth of Jew-hatred: Israel. Read more

Keychain provides a link for schoolchildren

Sydney’s Jewish House and JH Kids are promoting the ‘Always Together Program’ to help children’s anxiety around spending time away from their parents as they start or return to school. Read more

Three BBYO teens head for the States

Three BBYO (B’nai B’rith Youth Organisation NSW) teens will be travelling to Baltimore USA to attend the BBYO International Convention next week. Read more

How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal

As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s allies in the region. Read more

Origins of orthodoxy

I have just read Jacob Katz: On the Origins of Orthodoxy. It is an important collection of articles by and about the late Professor Katz, transcripts of interviews, as well as a bibliography. Read more

Shameful yet not unexpected

During a long and eventful history, the Jewish People have encountered myriad shameful situations. Read more

In Israel, COVID is no longer just a disease of the unvaccinated. Why?

If COVID-19 is supposed to be a disease of the unvaccinated, then why are so many vaccinated people in such severe condition in Israel, one of the world’s barometers of how the numbers of those affected add up, as well as a predictor of how the Pfizer vaccine has performed? Read more

NSO Pegasus spyware and the emergence of Israel as a surveillance state

Recent bombshell revelations that Israel Police have been using powerful NSO Pegasus software to hack the phones of private citizens, journalists and political officials are the latest in a series of controversial movements confirming Israel as an official surveillance state. Read more

Podcast: Jayne Josem on the Maus that roared

L’Chaim – To Live presents a podcast featuring the CEO of Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre Jayne Josem. Read more

Shabbat Tetzaveh: Who needs Priests?

The Torah goes into intricate detail in the Books of Exodus and Leviticus about the priests, their role in the Tabernacle ceremonials, their benefits and tithes, and their special rules of behaviour. This week, the Torah talks about the Priests’ clothes and oracles. Read more

‘Maus’: Parental control, whitewashing led to book ban

Yet again, those who wanted to learn about Maus had to leapfrog obstacles. Read more

Music as a medium for antisemitism

Exposing and countering racist hate on the internet is predominantly focused on social media sites, both mainstream and extremist, which post racist text and images. However, one area has not received much attention – racist music. Read more

The ‘genocide Olympics’ gives the lie to human-rights rhetoric

On his Facebook page last week, Elisha Wiesel—the son of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel—had a poignant accusation for the world, and especially for those who revered the lessons his father tried to impart about the importance of speaking up against atrocities and totalitarian regimes. Read more

First-ever Jewish Australian women’s speakers bureau

The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia has established the first-ever national Jewish women’s public speaker’s bureau. Read more

A chat with Henry Greener

Henry talks with Jewish International Film Festival Manager Erin Rosenberg who works full-time on the various film festivals that Classic Cinema Directors Lindy and Eddie Tamir organize releasing films of the highest standards. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon.  Amnesia International. Read more

Amnesty hops on UN bandwagon to demonize Israel and Jews

Amnesty International has hopped on the United Nations (UN) bandwagon aimed at vilifying and demonizing Israel and the Jewish People with the release of its 280-page report entitled Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians (“Report”). Read more

On the other hand

Amidst all the pressures generated by Omicron and seasonal winter ailments combined with overstretched medical personnel and resources, there was some positive news this week. Read more

UAE textbooks teach tolerance as those of PA teach violence, anti-Jewish incitement

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has uncovered thousands of pages of new teaching material produced by the Palestinian Authority that directly calls for violence and promotes anti-Semitism, even after promising European Union donors it would implement changes. Read more

Why the Amnesty ‘apartheid’ smear of Israel can’t be ignored

Say this for Amnesty International, its outrageous report alleging that Israel is an “apartheid state” has brought nearly all of the Jewish world together to condemn the organization. Read more

Israel’s gift of hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinians violates law

The Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum sent a request on Jan. 16 under Israel’s Freedom of Information Act to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, asking for information and details on his agreement to transfer hundreds of millions of shekels to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race

Whoopi Goldberg has got herself into a terrible mess. She was suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s “The View” talk show after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was instead, she said, about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “white people doing it to white people.” Read more

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