Talmud for dummies
February 4, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
I do not waste my time on TikTok ( indeed I have all but cut myself off from any social media simply to save my time for more important things). Read more
Concert to launch the The Great Synagogue Foundation
February 4, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A significant gift in memory of Sydney’s Great Synagogue stalwart Lionel Green has been recognised with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque. Read more
Meaningless and meaningful words
February 4, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
As the well-known saying proclaims, actions speak louder than words. If our actions don’t change, the words become meaningless. Read more
Israel ‘must go on offensive’ to counter fallacious content by Amnesty International, urge watchdogs
February 3, 2022 by David Isaac
Israel’s government and a host of Jewish groups denounced Amnesty International’s new report condemning Israel for “the crime against humanity of apartheid.” Read more
Legal experts expose biased research, reliance on terror organizations in Amnesty International report
February 3, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Amnesty International’s latest controversial report released on Feb. 1 during a press conference in Jerusalem, this time accusing Israel of apartheid, has come under fierce condemnation from the Israeli government and Jewish groups around the world as being “anti-Semitic.” Read more
Shabbat Terumah
February 3, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
We are now reading about the construction of the Tabernacle. Its design and its contents. Its dimensions are similar to many ancient religious structures that have been found across the ancient Middle East both in the construction of palaces and temples, and they mirror the dimensions of Noah’s Ark and the three levels of Sinai. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Aussie Legends From Days Gone By – Gabriel Bennett
February 3, 2022 by Features Desk
Gabriel was born in London in December 1817, and emigrated with his wife Rosetta to Melbourne in 1853, settling in Adelaide the following year. Read more
The Amnesty report on Israel affirms the PLO’s 60-year ‘apartheid’ strategy
February 2, 2022 by JNS
A new Amnesty International report, called “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and crime against humanity,” is the latest in a series of political assaults on Israel by various “human rights” organizations, among them B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch…writes Dan Diker. Read more
UN remembers the Holocaust as it abandons the Jewish People
February 2, 2022 by David Singer
The United Nations (UN) ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day was held on 27 January – as the UN was simultaneously continuing its incessant assault on the Jewish People that is once again giving rise to increasing Jew-hatred worldwide. Read more
FIFA under fire for spate of anti-Israel incidents, breaching ethical codes
February 1, 2022 by Josh Hasten - JNS
The UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) volunteer organization sent a formal complaint to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) this past week, calling on them to take action towards eradicating discrimination in sport, following numerous anti-Israel incidents last month at an official FIFA event. Read more
Israel defenders slam Amnesty International over ‘diplomatic lynch against the Jewish state’
February 1, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
A new report by Amnesty International UK set to be published on Feb. 1 accuses Israel of “apartheid” and “institutionalized and systematic discrimination against Palestinians.” Amnesty said it has “concluded that Israel has perpetrated the international wrong of apartheid as a human-rights violation and a violation of public international law.” Read more
Ukraine’s Jewish community in danger as Russian troops, supplies mass at border
February 1, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
A possibly imminent invasion by Russian troops into Ukrainian territory has the world on edge as leaders and experts try to guess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next steps and prevent what could become the largest military action in Europe since World War II. Read more
Ho-hum Holocaust Remembrance Day
February 1, 2022 by Thane Rosenbaum
The Holocaust, by definition, never brings with it good news as the topic of any conversation. Read more
The Marriage of Figaro: an opera review by Victor Grynberg
January 31, 2022 by Victor Grynberg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is widely regarded as the third member of the greatest classical composers trio, along with Johann Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Read more
Did Arabs and Jews ever get on?
January 31, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Contemporary antisemitism and ways to counter it
January 31, 2022 by Julie Nathan
Around the world, we see Jews increasingly under attack – synagogues vandalised, Jewish students ostracised, Jews beaten up in the streets or murdered in their homes, calls for Israel to be destroyed. It has become so pervasive and overwhelming. Read more
Feintooner
January 31, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Abrahamic Family Reunion Read more
$20 tickets for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House for years 11 & 12 students
January 31, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Opera Australia has partnered with The Bourne Foundation to offer year 11 and 12 students $20 tickets to see Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro during its summer season at the Sydney Opera House. Read more
What the row over caricatures of Yasser Arafat tells us about Palestinian politics
January 30, 2022 by Ben Cohen
A perennial discussion in the cauldron that is Middle Eastern politics concerns the degree to which a sovereign Palestinian state, should one ever be created, would be democratic. Read more
On the other hand
January 30, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
The “big one” has arrived. Read more
How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war
January 28, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the West is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia? Read more
Gerontocracy
January 28, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
Old age, Senior Citizens, Geriatrics are all rather pejorative terms for people who have reached a certain age or stage in their lives. Like me! Read more
Premature euphoria
January 28, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
The recent passing of a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly sponsored by Israel (and others) has caused much jubilation. Read more
Henry Greener chats with Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton
January 28, 2022 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Sydney’s The Great Synagogue’s Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton is a prominent example of the new breed of young rabbis who have put a modern slant on Orthodox Judaism. Read more
Report: Israelis live longer lives than most, despite major deficits in health care
January 28, 2022 by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - JNS.org
Israelis have a higher-than-average life expectancy than the majority of people living in 38 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, but far fewer doctors, nurses and available hospital beds, according to a report released this week by the intergovernmental economic organization. Read more
Ambassador Jones
January 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jeremy Jones, Director of International and of Community Affairs for Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council was the 2022 Australia Day Ambassador for Gundagai NSW. Read more
The Holocaust Remembrance Day rule that proves everyone loves dead Jews
January 27, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It was a great day for Israeli diplomacy. For the first time, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution sponsored by the Jewish state and it received nearly universal support. Read more
Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi: ‘The Knesset won’t decide who is a Jew’
“I’m still a little weak. A few days ago I got over COVID,” Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau apologizes at the beginning of a conversation with Israel Hayom…writes Hanan Greenwood. Read more
Israel’s ill-fated powwows with the Palestinian Authority
January 27, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid didn’t boast on social media about his meeting on Sunday with Palestinian Authority honcho Hussein al-Sheikh. The latter did so immediately, however. Read more
Shabbat Mishpatim: What happpened at Sinai?
January 27, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
One of the challenges to traditional Judaism comes from academic analysis of the Torah as if it were either a Book of History or literature that one can decipher from a rational, point of view. Read more
