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?

Ask the rabbi… Read more

‘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

ECAJ highlights errors in ABC report

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has disputed the findings highlighted in the report by ABC’s Emily Clark An attempt to explain why explosions are again filling the skies over Israel and Gaza. Read more

When Hamas fires missiles at Israeli homes, forget nuance

It’s been almost seven years since the 2014 summer war in Gaza, but the discussion of the current fighting going on between Israel and Hamas seems as if it’s being read from the same script. Read more

For Palestinians, the past remains the future

Judging by the present pattern, the next conflagration over Gaza—and by extension, the still-unresolved Palestinian question—will occur in 2028 or so, just in time for the 80th anniversary of Israel’s creation. And judging by the present mood, the seven years until then will yield as little political progress as have the past 13, a period in which we’ve witnessed two full-scale wars between Israel and Hamas, with a third now in the offing. Read more

Strong Israeli Government can curb domestic Arab Jew-hatred

The display of unadulterated Jew-hatred shown by a large number of Israel’s Arab residents during the past week – provoking equally condemnatory retaliatory responses by Jewish individuals – can only be dealt with and eradicated by a strong Israeli Government. Read more

Concerts continue at The Great Synagogue

Pianist Simon Tedeschi and violinist Andrew Haveron, concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony will be the featured musicians at an upcoming concert at The Great Synagogue. Read more

Hypocrites of the world unite

“Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.” Read more

Shavuot, Torah, and Humanity

As rockets continue to rain down on our families in Israel, and a civil war rages with mobs of hooligans attacking peaceful citizens and neighbours, I pray for three things. Read more

Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?

U.S. President Joe Biden has dispatched the American official Hady Amr to the Middle East to “de-escalate the fighting” between Israel and Hamas. Read more

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