10 takeaways from the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas

Over this past weekend, Arabs were shooting fireworks in the sky, supposedly in celebration of holding Israeli population centres hostage for 11 days with more than 4,000 rockets. Read more

Work goes on: Efforts to bring last of Ethiopian Jews to Israel

In continuation of the family reunification initiative “Operation Tzur Israel” (“Operation Rock of Israel”), nearly 300 new Ethiopian olim landed in Israel on March 11, joining the other 1,700 Ethiopians who arrived in Israel since last year. Read more

How will we know who won the war?

Maybe one day, we will discover that the impetus for Hamas’s latest onslaught against Israel wasn’t the pending Israeli Supreme Court decision about whether or not to respect the property rights of Jewish landlords in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

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Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Cheerleading collaborators. Read more

Are we the chosen people?

Ask the rabbi…. Read more

16 years of community leadership

On May 14, Vic Alhadeff closed his office door at The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies where he had served its CEO for 16 years. Read more

Misinformed celebrities lean on same old tropes

As the violence was escalating between the Palestinians and the Israelis these past two weeks—and the terrible but predictable death and destruction mounted—celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Mia Farrow, Viola Davis, Roger Waters, American singer Halsey and British pop-star Dua Lipa have taken to social media, slandering Israel and trafficking in classic antisemitic tropes about Jews…writes Lana Melman. Read more

Is Netanyahu responsible for this latest conflict?

As far as the many critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are concerned, there’s very little that goes wrong that can’t be attributed to what they consider to be his malevolent influence. Even the actions of Palestinian terrorist groups. Read more

In special meeting on conflict, Erdan slams UN for its incessant focus on Israel

Hours before Israel announced a ceasefire between itself and the Gaza-based terrorist organization Hamas on Thursday, Israeli Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations Gilad Erdan said that member states condemning Israel for its actions in Gaza are choosing to side with terror and hurting the chances for peace in the region. Read more

The return of the anti-Jewish mob

The left-wing French parliamentarian Danièle Obono stormed out of a live debate on May 13 about the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities hosted by the French-language channel of the Israeli broadcaster, i24 News. Read more

US appeasement of Iran, misconceptions over facts linger in wake of Israel-Gaza conflict

The conflict in Gaza over the last two weeks highlighted a number of misperceptions and emerging trends between the United States and Israel. Read more

Vox out of the box: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs could hardly have offered a more popular choral work than Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana as the centrepiece of their concert in the Sydney Town Hall yesterday. Read more

Al Jazeera and AP cover up destruction of Hamas media mouthpiece

Al Jazeera and Associated Press (AP) reports on Israel’s demolition of the 14 storey building in which their respective offices were located – illustrates media anti-Israel bias that seeks to denigrate and delegitimise the Jewish State in much of the media reporting coming from the Gaza Strip. Read more

Biden’s skin-deep support for Israel

Until Wednesday, President Joe Biden had maintained a fairly supportive posture towards Israel in the face of the Hamas terror regime in Gaza’s launch of its newest round of war against the Jewish state. Read more

The last, overlooked but still active front of World War II

Our current convulsions, with the Jewish people under murderous and venomous attack both in Israel and the Diaspora, are far more momentous than many may realize. Read more

The Associated Press (AP): A history of biased and anti-Israel media

The AP news agency is the leading news agency in the world. It has approximately 15,000 media customers that in turn shares its reports to half of the world population every day…writes Amotz Eyal/TPS. Read more

Ex-British commander, foreign-affairs minister debate meaning behind Hamas actions

Speaking during a webinar on the ongoing conflict in Israel on Wednesday, former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan Col. Richard Kemp said the Israeli government should be the determiner of when a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip is appropriate, as the Jewish state has been on the receiving end of more than 4,000 rockets since May 10. His comments came a day before Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire after 11 days of hostilities…writes Dmitry Shapiro. Read more

Whose side are you on?

The latest round of fighting between Palestinians and Israel continues what has been a Hundred Years’ War and will in my opinion continue possibly for another hundred. Read more

Lone Voice The launch of The Wars of Isi Leibler

The launch of the book on the life of community identity the late Isi Leibler written by Suzanne Rutland. Read more

Exclusive: ‘Postponement of elections in Hamas’ eyes is as when Sharon entered the Temple Mount’

“The cancellation of the election by Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] is likened to Ariel Sharon’s entry into al-Aqsa. Read more

What is it that woke folk smoke?

If truth be known woke folk don’t need to smoke anything in order to vilify Israel and by extension, Jews. Read more

Gazan kids celebrate Ramadan in Israeli hospital, despite rockets

Twenty-one foreign children recovering from heart surgery in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon slept in a bomb shelter last week—just like thousands of Israelis—as air-raid sirens warned of incoming missiles from Gaza…writes Abigail Klein Leichman. Read more

The current “Ceasefire” proposal now discussed in Gaza is anything but a Ceasefire

Indeed, a real “ceasefire” might result in the kind of armistice that ended hostilities in World War I, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the eleventh month on Nov. 11 1918, paving the way to the Versailles peace treaty and the genesis of the League of Nations.
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Should Judaism be modernised?

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‘AP,’ ‘Al Jazeera’ and the mainstream media are tools in Hamas’s war against Israel

Journalists are expressing their outrage that the 12-story Al-Jalaa building housing the Gaza headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera was targeted during retaliatory Israeli airstrikes on Saturday. Read more

Facing the real cause of the long Arab war

The time has come for Israel to stop giving a pass to Arab Jew-hatred. Read more

Medical practitioners and nurses in Nazi Germany

A travelling exhibition, that showcases the persecution and murder of hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled patients by medical practitioners and nurses in Nazi Germany, has been brought to Brisbane by several academics from the University of Queensland. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: The first Jewish Educator for Sydney

Maurice Abraham Cohen, known as Moses was born in 1851 in Ukraine to a Sephardic Jewish family. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Double Jeopardy. Read more

On the other hand

As I write these lines, rockets and explosions are reverberating in many parts of Israel. Read more

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