The importance of anti-BDS legislation

International lawyer Eugene Kontorovich will speak on anti-BDS legislation. Read more

American culture

The debacle in Afghanistan has proved how difficult it is to change another country’s culture. Read more

European Union implements new strategy to address serious rise in antisemitism

Acknowledging that most European Jews do not feel safe in their home countries, the European Commission released a report on Tuesday outlining strategies to combat antisemitism and encourage the growth of Jewish life there. Read more

At long last, Babi Yar victims to receive the respect they deserve

The horrors of the Nazi mass extermination camps in the Holocaust are well-known but the “Holocaust by Bullets,” during which Jews were shot one by one, is less known. Read more

Podcast: Michelle Bloom on Ethi-call

Morry Frenkel speaks with Michelle Bloom, The Ethics Centre’s Director of Ethi-call, a unique service providing free, expert and impartial guidance to assist people in finding an ethical and constructive solution if faced with a challenging dilemma. Read more

Can Robots be Jewish? And other pressing questions of Modern Life: a book review by Jeffrey Cohen

Amy Schwartz serves as the opinion and book editor at Moment Magazine. Moment is one of the more independent and thought stimulating magazine in the Jewish world started by Leonid/Leibl Fein over fifty years ago and is still being published today as an independent but also inclusive journal. Read more

Meretz’s pilgrimage to Ramallah

If anything illustrates the farcical nature of the current makeup of the government in Jerusalem, it’s the parley in Ramallah on Sunday evening between Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and a delegation of Israel’s Meretz Party, headed by Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz. Read more

B’nai B’rith Bargain Bazaar. For some it is a second-hand shop, for others it is a second home.

Since its inception, Sydney’s B’nai B’rith’s Bargain Bazaar Charity Shop has become an institution…writes Ori Golan. Read more

Israeli study reveals evolutionary reason for women feeling colder than men

Researchers at Tel Aviv University’s School of Zoology have offered a new evolutionary explanation for the familiar phenomenon of women feeling colder than men, concluding that this is not unique to humans, with many male species of endotherms, birds, and mammals, preferring a cooler temperature than the females. Read more

Honig wins American award for global startup of year

Australian company Honeylight Enterprises Pty Ltd trading as Greenville has been named 2021 Global Startup of the Year in the 18th annual Stevie® Award. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Avi Yemini

The infamous controversial Social media freedom figurehead, Avi Yemini speaks with Henry Greener about his interesting background before he became involved in the politics of the media. Read more

Frances Prince launches her book “Gift of Time”

A new book, written by well-known community personality Frances Prince is launching this week in Melbourne. Read more

John Lyons’ criticism of “the Jewish lobby”: A reader proffers an explanation

As a member of the Australian Jewish community (Australian first and foremost), I agree with most of John Lyons’ complaints. Read more

Danny Danon’s quest to lead the Jewish Agency into the future

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon is excited about another potential role, which he hopes will be as the new head of the Jewish Agency. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: An introduction to more pioneers who established the colonies – the Montefiore Family

Joseph Barrow Montefiore and his wife Rebecca and their first two children Georgiana Judith Barrow and Esther Hannan Barrow arrived in Sydney on 22 February 1829. Read more

What’s so special about Chassidim?

Ask the rabbi… Read more

EU will defund UNRWA for using PA textbooks inciting Jew-hatred

The European Parliament has threatened to block €20 million in aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) – unless “substantive positive” changes are made by the next academic school year to Palestinian Authority (PA) textbooks used in UNWRA schools. Read more

Iraq persecutes its heretics

It has the air of a witch-hunt. Many of the 300 leaders of Iraqi civil society, Sunni and Shi’a, who gathered in the Kurdish region last week for a conference advocating an Iraqi peace accord with the State of Israel, are now the subjects of arrest warrants from the authorities and death threats from Islamist militias. Read more

Is it ever OK to praise the ‘truth’ of an antisemitic blood libel?

Does it matter if politicians let lies told by people they meet publicly go unanswered? That’s the question that many in the Jewish community are asking this week in the wake of an incident this week involving Vice President Kamala Harris. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Vice Presidential Vice. Read more

Have I got a Cartoon for You: The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons

Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen reviews the book edited by Bob Mankoff. Read more

On the other hand

Whew – the holyday season is finished and the country is slowly returning to normal activity. Read more

Shabbat Bereishit

After the first chapter of Genesis describes the creation of the physical universe, the rest of the book goes on to deal with the often-ambivalent relationships with God and other human beings. Read more

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood. Read more

In the footsteps of his predecessors, Bennett aims to change paradigms

“Hands out of your pockets, sir!” barked a U.S. Secret Service agent at a bewildered pedestrian as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett walked down the Fifth Avenue sidewalk in New York City, accompanied by a large entourage of Secret Service and Shin Bet agents, aides and reporters. A long motorcade of Black Secret Service Suburbans and police cars rolled alongside with blue lights flashing, keeping pace with the walkers. Read more

Carmel School Bulawayo

My late father left his position as Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues in London to realize his dream of establishing a Jewish school that would combine the best of secular education with a good Jewish education and religious experience. He became a spokesman for Jewish education at a time when it was not only unfashionable but perceived as an impediment to integration and success in life.  Read more

Brick walls

In our journey through life, we more often than not encounter brick walls. Read more

A cautionary tale about Arab-Israeli normalization

Those picking up The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 24 got some good news about the cause of peace in the Middle East. Read more

The Deputy Leader of the Victorian opposition: meet David Southwick

New Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria, David Southwick and the new leader Matthew Guy MP want to build a viable alternative to the Andrews Government. Read more

New president at St Kilda Shule

Melbourne’s St Kilda Shule has been the spiritual home to its new President Gerry Bullon since 1986 when he moved to Melbourne from Sydney. Read more

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