‘Fauda’ star has another smash hit on Netflix with ‘Hit & Run’

Revenge is a dish best served Israeli. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Judah Solomon –  Convict to Businessman

Judah arrived in Hobart in 1820 from England, together with his brother Joseph, as convicts for “receiving stolen goods”. Read more

Happy 100th, Gerda

Gerda Buckwalter, a long-standing stalwart of the Sydney Jewish community celebrates her 100th birthday on Wednesday. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon….The Golden Medina. Read more

A conversation with Nobuki Sugihara

Chiune Sugihara saved the lives of 6000 Jews during the Holocaust. Many of their descendants live in Australia. Read more

Jordan is the Palestinian State: Hussein and Abdullah differ

It is rare for CNN host Fareed Zakaria to issue an apology – but he did so after interviewing Jordan’s King Abdullah II last week. Read more

On the other hand

Israel may not be a world power in the sporting arena but nevertheless, our sportspeople at the Tokyo Olympics still managed to bring home some coveted medals. Read more

In wake of rocket attacks on Israel, Hezbollah tries to signal it’s ‘in control’

Hezbollah’s decision to fire 19 rockets at northern Israel on Friday came after the Lebanese terror organization took 24 hours to deliberate over a major dilemma: How should it respond to Israeli airstrikes in Southern Lebanon, launched early on Thursday morning? Read more

‘Not vaccinated:’ How refusal is spreading the virus of antisemitism

A sad sight has returned to the streets of New York—and doubtless, to other cities around the country in which a growing majority of residents have vaccinated themselves from COVID-19. Read more

The Spirit of the Law: Shabbat Re’eh Deuteronomy Chapters 12:26-16:17

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Census message

This week I received, like millions of Australia a letter in the mail letting me know that the Australian census will be taking place next week on the 10^th August 2021. Read more

Band-aids don’t work

Trying to staunch major traumas with band-aids is a losing strategy. Read more

Iranian protests spread again, but so far, the regime has them under control

Demonstrations in Iran’s Khuzestan province—as a result of an ongoing drought and corruption with the government—and elsewhere have grown, though experts tell JNS that they are smaller than in 2019 so far and the regime will use its full force to stamp them out. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Bruce Hill Part 2

Journalist, Past ABC radio host, media consultant and writer Bruce Hill has a very interesting story about his student days at Victoria University, Wellington, which lead him to convert to Judaism! Read more

Envoy will first need to root out antisemitism in the Democratic Party

U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Read more

Synagogues

It is only a month to the “Days of Awe,” the Yamim Noraim. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Not even remotely true. Read more

Me and Jackie

I only met Jackie Mason once. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Bruce Hill

Journalist, Past ABC radio host, media consultant and writer Bruce Hill has a very interesting story about his student days at Victoria University, Wellington, which lead him to convert to Judaism! Read more

Why must I put “Jewish” on my census form?

Two questions from those not keen to put their Jewish religious affiliation on their census forms.  And the answers to why they should. Read more

In Conversation with Rabbanit Evron

The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia (JOFA) hosted Rabbanit Devorah Evron on Zoom. Read more

Will Israel’s politicized Supreme Court stick to law on Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah squatters?

In what can be seen as an eyebrow-raising moment, Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday noted that the Jewish owners of properties under dispute in the Shimon HaTzadik neighbourhood of Jerusalem, which is often erroneously mixed up with the adjacent Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, are within their legal rights to evict the illegal Palestinian squatters, but is pushing to find a solution that allows them to remain in the homes. Read more

How three Israeli filmmakers wound up becoming the story in Africa

Three Israeli documentary filmmakers arrived home safely from Nigeria at the end of last week, after what they described as 20 “hellish days” detained under inhumane conditions by the government’s Department of State Services (DSS) security agency. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Henry Spiro – a leader of the times

Henry was born in Posen, Prussia in 1839 travelled to Queensland in 1861 at 22 years of age and settled in Toowoomba in 1863 and took up a partnership with Samuel Benjamin and opened a merchant store in the centre of town where they built a modern two–story brick building. Read more

Raisi’s presidency a ‘metaphor’ for Iran’s regional escalation

Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in on Thursday, and he is already making his mark. Read more

The inevitable inequitable application of proposed laws

Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling ice cream in Jewish communities in the West Bank has caused ripples – and may be a breach of US laws that prohibit discriminatory boycotts. Read more

Israel vs. Facebook: Knesset bill seeks to rein in social-media censorship

Knesset member Galit Distel-Atbaryan of the Likud Party, who says Facebook targeted her for her right-wing views, introduced a law in June to give citizens recourse should they find themselves out of favour with the social networks. Read more

Elon Gold dishes on Jackie Mason, COVID-19 and why Jews are so nervous

Elon Gold, known as one of the best living Jewish comedians, spoke with great reverence of a Jewish comedy legend who died on July 24 at the age of 93…write Alan Zeitlin. Read more

Preserving the footprint of the Southern African Jewish Community online

The second of three webinars with three presentations. Read more

King Abdullah cannot exclude Jordan from any two-state solution

King Abdullah’s continuing attempt to exclude Jordan from being part of any two-state solution remains the major obstacle to ending the 100-years-old unresolved Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more

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