Are Israel and Jordan ready to turn over a new leaf?
July 15, 2021 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has often described his country as being wedged between a “rock and a hard place,” referring to war-torn Iraq and the Israeli-controlled areas west of the Jordan River. Read more
Loneliness and its side effects
July 15, 2021 by Community Editor
Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue will be exploring the topic of ‘loneliness’ as part of their upcoming Health Matters event later this month. Read more
Shaked: ‘It will be easier for our government to work with current US administration’
July 14, 2021 by Agencies
The past three months have been the stormiest of Ayelet Shaked’s political life…writes Ariel Kahana.
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Ida Cohen – a legend of Tamworth
July 13, 2021 by Community newsdesk
Ida Cohen was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, in 1867. Read more
Henry Greener chats with Yair Miller
July 13, 2021 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Federal CEO of UIA Yair Miller tells Henry Greener of the work UIA does for the people of Israel. Read more
Feintooner
July 12, 2021 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Cyrus Accords according to Iranian dissidents. Read more
Was the Holocaust the destruction of the third temple?
July 12, 2021 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
On the other hand
July 11, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
This week we welcome Israel’s incoming President, Yitzhak Herzog, and say thanks to outgoing President, Reuven Rivlin. Read more
US, Israel appear moving to bolster Jordan amid concerns over economic, social stability
July 10, 2021 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
The United State and Israel appear to be moving to bolster relations with Jordan as part of an effort to shore up Jordan’s King Abdullah amid concerns over his country’s stability. Read more
The cost of Israel’s partisan games on security
July 10, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Like so much of what happens in the Knesset, the aftermath of a recent vote on a law that would prevent a possible flood of Palestinian immigrants into Israel was not a very edifying spectacle. Read more
Shabbat Matot Masei
The Book of Numbers draws to a close with themes of tribes, journeys, and possessions, with the fight for survival, cities of refuge and vows, thrown in for good measure. Read more
Are we Khazars?
July 9, 2021 by Jeremy Rosen
Arthur Koestler was another brilliant, but deeply disturbed Jewish intellectual to emerge from twentieth-century Hungary (no need to mention all the others). Read more
A $33,000 fix for Bondi’s Scout Hall
July 9, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton MP today announced that Bondi Scout Hall in Bondi has been granted $33,000 for an upgrade under the NSW Government’s COVID-19 stimulus program. Read more
Ahead of Tisha B’Av – one of most magnificent Second Temple-Era buildings discovered in Jerusalem open to public
July 9, 2021 by TPS-IL
Impressive new sections of one of the most magnificent public buildings uncovered from the Second Temple period in Jerusalem was opened to public visits, days before Israel will mark Tisha B’Av, the day of mourning for the destruction of the two Temples. Read more
Which promised land?
July 9, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
The Fourth of July anniversary this week has turned out to be a somewhat more auspicious time for soul searching among many Jews than has been the case in past years. Read more
Zoom event with Rabbanit Devorah Evron and The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia
July 9, 2021 by Community newsdesk
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia (JOFA) will host Rabbanit Devorah Evron for an upcoming event on ZOOM. Read more
Media malpractice in the West has caused permanent harm to Israel
July 9, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
This week, Israel signed a deal for the immediate transfer to South Korea of 700,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, which are due to expire at the end of this month. Read more
Technion ranked No. 1 in Europe in field of artificial intelligence
July 9, 2021 by JNS
CSRankings, the leading metrics-based ranking of top computer-science institutions around the world, has ranked the Technion–Israeli Institute of Technology No. 1 in the field of artificial intelligence in Europe (and, of course, in Israel), and 15th worldwide. Read more
The Happiest Man on Earth meets Austen Tayshus
July 8, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sandy Gutman uses his alter ego Austen Tayshus to make people laugh but Eddie Jaku is already the ‘Happiest Man on Earth’. Read more
JewishCare’s remote programs have proven a hit with community.
July 8, 2021 by Community newsdesk
As Sydney’s lockdown continues, JewishCare’s and Burger Centre’s new remote programs, including JDay, Print35 and Our Kitchen Hand continues to keep the community connected. Read more
Irena is going to be missed
July 8, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
JNF mourns the passing of Irena Nebenzahl who passed away recently in Sydney. Read more
Almost a month in – Israel’s latest government
July 8, 2021 by Ron Weiser
And they said it couldn’t last……… Read more
A flood of Palestinians into Israel? Citizenship law fails to pass, despite security issues
Politics makes strange bedfellows. In the predawn hours of Tuesday morning, the Likud Party celebrated alongside the anti-Zionist Joint Arab List, as the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, meant to bolster Israel’s security by checking large-scale, unfiltered Palestinian immigration, went down to narrow defeat in a tied vote, 59-59. Read more
The Proud History of Palestine?
July 7, 2021 by Ashley Church
There were two topics that I hated at school – math and history. Read more
Cairns Challah bake
July 7, 2021 by Community newsdesk
Chabad of North Queensland has run an event at which participants learned how to mix, knead and shape their own traditional challah. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Julia Levy – Philanthropist
July 6, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Julia Levy was born in Bath England in 1826. Her father, Samuel Solomon was transported as a convict in 1832 to New South Wales and Julia, with her mother and seven siblings followed him to Australia, as free immigrants arriving on 1 February 1835. Read more
Feintooner
July 5, 2021 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Fire-Fighting Nation. Read more
Why does a bride wear a veil at her wedding?
July 5, 2021 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
Bennett and the Religious Zionist elite
July 5, 2021 by Caroline Glick - JNS
The biggest media story in Israel last week was the fall of the town of Evyatar in Samaria. Read more
Israel signals end to EU-funded unauthorised building in West Bank
July 5, 2021 by David Singer
Israel’s decision to evict all 53 Jewish families from the unauthorised settlement of Evyatar in the West Bank this week should send a clear signal to the European Union (EU) that its days of financing and facilitating the building of unauthorised Arab structures in Area C of the West Bank are over. Read more
