Israel’s ‘blame my predecessor’ Iran strategy revealed

Two weeks ago, Foreign Policy magazine published an interview with Defence Minister Benny Gantz. Read more

A glaucoma worldwide expert in webinar

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Biden and Pelosi silent on Jew-hatred in Democratic Party

The failure of President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to rebuke the ten Democratic Party members of the House of Representatives who abstained or voted against America providing $1 billion in aid to help Israel replenish its Iron Dome missile defence system is very concerning. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Tears and Smears. Read more

Henry Greener chats with

Professional writer Yoram Symons has created, along with his Psychiatrist father Dr Mark Symons and Rabbi Yaron Gottlieb, an online shule experience for these times of lockdown. Read more

Guardians of the New Zealand Super Fund admit hypocrisy

The recent admission by the Guardians of the New Zealand Super Fund that they continue to invest in certain companies complicit in gross human rights violations in (China for example), while conspicuously divesting in others in Israel calls into question the integrity of the funds application of their ‘ethical standards policy’. Read more

A chat with David Solomon

David Solomon has recently been appointed the CEO of the Australian Friends of Tel Aviv University. Read more

Leveraging diverse backgrounds, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum seeks to bring unity, cohesion to agency

Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is one of the candidates to head the Jewish Agency, the largest Jewish nonprofit organization in the world. If elected, she would become the first woman to head the agency. Read more

The triumph and tragedy of Jewish self-liberation

When the leading scholar of Jewish literature of our time chooses to write a memoir of her career, it is hardly a surprise that its pages are filled with the names of the great writers she has encountered and studied. Ruth Wisse is currently a senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund, but prior to that, she helped found the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal and then became Professor of Yiddish and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Read more

On visible and invisible Jews

During the middle days of the Sukkot festival, small groups of haredi kids can be seen wandering along the thoroughfares of New York City’s Upper West Side, asking passersby whether they are Jewish. Read more

On the other hand

We are in the midst of the intermediate days of Sukkot (the Festival of Tabernacles) when Israelis take to the road, nature parks are filled to capacity and schools are on vacation again. Read more

Durban 4 Disgrace

The “World Conference against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance”, was founded by the United Nations, after the Second World War and the Holocaust. Read more

‘Good riddance, Merkel,’ says Jewish-German newspaper publisher

Rafael Korenzecher, publisher of the conservative Germany Jewish monthly, Jüdische Rundschau, does not spare any nicety in his parting words to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose successor will be determined after the German federal elections on Sept. 26. Read more

The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco

According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, when the Democrats withdrew from their embattled spending bill $1 billion in emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, this was merely a “technicality” that would be reversed. Read more

What’s in a name?

The simple answer to this conundrum is – “quite a lot it seems.” Read more

Henry Greener chats with Josh Butt

TV Producer Josh Butt has over 20 years of experience in media producing commercials, podcasts and branded comedy for TV. Read more

Sydney’s Shul presents Yaakov Shwekey

Legendary Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey will perform for the Australian Jewish community on Sunday. Read more

Sh’mini Atzeret & Simchat Torah

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on the forthcoming festivals. Read more

Rescuing Afghanistan’s last Jew

One of the most extraordinary stories of the Afghan pullout is the rescue of Afghanistan’s last Jew—Zebulon Simantov, who lived in and took care of Kabul’s synagogue. Read more

Aussie classic For Actors’ Fund Benefit

Lambert House Enterprises have announced KID STAKES will be performed live-streamed on Saturday evening. Read more

A different kind of festival

The ancient festival of Sukkot has three elements to it. There is the Sukah itself, the Arba’ah Minim, the Four Plants, Geshem, the prayers for rain and Simchah, the command to celebrate and be happy, and added later, the rejoicing over the Torah. Read more

The Battle of Haifa

On 23 September, India and Israel commemorate the decisive Battle of Haifa…writes Ian Dunwoodie. Read more

1973 Yom Kippur War sees Sukkahs on army vehicles

Nearly fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, the National Library of Israel has released a number of rare photos showing how the festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) was celebrated during the conflict, even as war raged in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Read more

NZ Indigenous coalition queries why New Zealand does not have an embassy in Israel

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Why Oslo still rules

Faisal Husseini, who held the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem portfolio, gave an interview shortly before his death in the summer of 2001 in which exposed the fraud at the heart of the Oslo process. Read more

Jew-hater joins Prince Harry & Meghan as Icons in TIME Top 100

TIME has made a laughing stock of itself – and its credibility – by including 23-year-old rabid-Jew hating Palestinian Arab journalist Mohammed El-Kurd and his twin sister Mana El-Kurd among 16 persons listed as Icons in its 100 most influential people in 2021. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…French Court Fries Justice. Read more

On the other hand

By the time you read this the sound of hammering and electric drills will be heard the length and breadth of Israel. Read more

UNRWA: Opportune time to hold UNRWA accountable

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees has faced a difficult week. Read more

‘There is a Jew hiding behind me—come and kill him’

When the former Trump administration announced that it was moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in December 2017, the reaction in the Muslim world and among Muslim communities in the West was predictably furious. Read more

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