What will happen when we wake up to the headline informing us that the last Holocaust survivor has just died?
My friends at the nonprofit organization “Zikaron B’Salon” are always grappling with the question, “what will happen when we wake up to the headline informing us that the last Holocaust survivor has just died”?…writes Tova Dorfman. Read more
Monika shines for Montefiore
January 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Over the past two years, Montefiore has done managed the wellbeing and safety of its residents, their families, staff, and volunteers. Read more
NSW Premier’s Gala Concert tickets
January 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Christine Anu, Shannon Noll and Phil Burton from Human Nature will lead the line-up for the highly anticipated Premier’s Gala Concerts during this year’s NSW Seniors Festival. Read more
Noa makes Aya’s day
January 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israeli popstar and rising global sensation, Noa Kirel, has made a surprise visit to Sheba Medical Centre’s The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital to visit Aya Abecassis, a 12-year old child hospitalized in the hemato-oncology ward. Read more
‘Israel, Diaspora must join forces in battle against antisemitism’
January 25, 2022 by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - JNS.org
Israel has a “moral obligation” to assist Diaspora communities faced with rising antisemitism both online and in the public sphere, according to Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai. Read more
Israeli figure-skating duo chase ‘impossible dream’ to Beijing
January 24, 2022 by JNS
A lot of hopes are riding on the skates of Hailey Kops and Evgeni Krasnopolski…writes Abigail Klein Leichman. Read more
Is gambling income generated for education questionable?
January 24, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Killing Katie: Confessions of a Book Club – a theatre review by Hila Tsor
January 24, 2022 by Hila Tsor
Killing Katie: Confessions of a Book Club begins through the narrative voice of Linda (Bron Lim) who meets up with her fitness obsessed friend Sam Andrews (Georgina Symes) to talk about the past, and present. Read more
Feintooner
January 24, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon. Reality and its discontents. Read more
UN, Jordan, Egypt, PLO & Hamas need to return to 5 June 1967
January 24, 2022 by David Singer
The United Nations (UN), Jordan, Egypt, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hamas need to focus on the current reality that the two-state solution called for in UN Security Council Resolution 2334 is impossible to achieve: Creating a second Arab State in 5% of former Palestine – in addition to Jordan – which presently exercises sovereignty in 78% of former Palestine. Read more
On the other hand
January 23, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Will it or won’t it? That is the question currently exercising the attention of many Israelis. Read more
Retired Israeli general a settler critic
January 21, 2022 by Associated Press
Retired general Yair Golan spent a significant part of his military career serving in the occupied West Bank, protecting Jewish settlements. Today, he is one of their most vocal critics. Read more
It’s not rocket science
January 21, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Quote: It’s not rocket science. It’s really about common sense (or lack of it). Read more
Israeli-led resolution combating Holocaust denial receives overwhelming support at UN
January 21, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The first time, it was about remembrance. This time, it’s about preserving those memories. Read more
The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack
January 21, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, where the rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage until they managed to escape unharmed, was shocking enough. Read more
Time
January 21, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
We have just celebrated another New Year. I was not specifically thinking of 2022, although that too. Or of Tu BiShvat, the Fifteenth Day of the Month of Shevat. The New Year for Trees. One of four different New Years as recorded in the Talmud ( Rosh Hashana ). Read more
New Zealand votes to fund unprecedented attack on Israel
January 20, 2022 by David Cumin
The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution establishing an ongoing Commission of Inquiry which has unprecedented scope to demonise Israel. Read more
UN Security Council president: Israelis and Palestinians need to ‘get back to negotiating table’
January 20, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
She helped lead the backchannel effort to get Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization leaders in the same room to hash out an interim agreement that was to serve as a basis for peace. Read more
Israel: a check on the political temperature
January 20, 2022 by Ron Weiser
Suddenly, there are two issues that have arisen which have the potential to shorten the life of the Israeli coalition government. Read more
Plea bargains should not be for prime ministers
January 20, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s the sort of story that makes you wonder about who is doing the leaking and why. Read more
Shabbat Yitro: Jethro in 13
January 20, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
The most important feature of this week is arguably Judaism’s greatest contribution to the world, the so-called, Ten Commandments. Read more
There’s no cure for health-authority pig-headedness
January 19, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
It’s time for health authorities in Israel and abroad to stop vilifying the medical experts who’ve been issuing a reassuring message as to where the coronavirus pandemic is headed. Read more
EU tries to twist international law to fight eviction of Sheikh Jarrah squatters in Jerusalem
January 19, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Israeli authorities on Monday morning attempted to evict the Salhiya family, Arab squatters living illegally since the 1950s in a home in the Shimon HaTzadik neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. Read more
Proud to have been vaccinated
January 19, 2022 by Community newsdesk
Tanya Warms demonstrates the ‘Proudly Vaccinated’ kippot, masks and pens funded for the Leo Baeck Centre in East Kew by a government grant. Read more
Together against hate
January 19, 2022 by Danny Danon
We all anxiously followed the unfolding on Saturday of the tragic hostage event at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. Read more
A Jewish majority is insufficient to protect Israel
January 17, 2022 by Caroline Glick - JNS
After their claim to be the peace camp exploded into a million pieces in a hundred suicide bombings, Israel’s left reinvented itself as the Zionist camp. Read more
Feintooner
January 17, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon. Hate is a many splendoured thing. Read more
UN Security Council incites Jew-hatred thanks to Obama & Biden
January 17, 2022 by David Singer
The Obama-Biden administration’s failure to veto UN Security Council Resolution 2334 on 23 December 2016 – as President Obama was vacating the White House to hand over the reins of power to President-elect Donald Trump – has seen that Resolution being weaponized for the last five years to incite Jew-hatred worldwide – with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres firing the bullets. Read more
Ancient synagogues were decorated with art. Why?
January 17, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi? Read more
On the other hand
January 16, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
In at least one crisis, Israel is not alone. Read more
