What are you doing on Tuesday evening?

Tune in at 7.30pm tomorrow night for a free digital concert performed by AWO colleagues and two stellar visual artists. Read more

Israel says hi to Morocco, Bhutan, Dubai and goodbye to Ashrawi

Another momentous week has seen President Trump broker diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco – whilst Bhutan and Israel established diplomatic ties and Israel’s first commercial flight to Dubai occurred. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Extending the light Read more

A very special night in with Jewish House

Jewish House brought together more than 1,000 community members online with an evening of entertainment and insight. Read more

The Shamash and COVID-19

When reflecting upon the miracles of Hannukah, the logical decision should be that the menorah should have eight candles as the miracle lasted for eight days and we light one candle for each day of the miracle of the light. Read more

Rabbi Yaakov Glasman chats with Henry Greener

Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of the St Kilda Shule zooms in to tell us about the virtual events that he and so many other congregations and organisations created to keep the community connected over the time of COVID. Read more

On the other hand

This week it was announced that Israel will be returning to the moon. Read more

Funds needed to combat prejudice

The multi-faith educational organisation Together For Humanity (TFH), has launched its inaugural Giving Together Day in a bid to raise funds to combat prejudice and increase interfaith and intercultural understanding in schools. Read more

A conversation with Austen Tayshus

From Melbourne, Henry Greener interviews Austen Tayshus on Zoom in his home in Sydney, revealing the mature, intelligent man, reminiscing about some highlights of his brilliant career as a humorist, satirist, filmmaker and provocateur extraordinaire. Read more

Side effects known and unknown

“No action is without its side effects.”

This quote by the late Barry Commoner, an American cellular biologist, university professor and politician, succinctly sums up the situation we find ourselves in these days. Read more

Obama and Israel

Former President Obama is regarded as something of a saint. His voice is the gospel of the Democratic and academic constituency of the USA. Read more

Not in any community

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Chanukah arrives at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo

Jewish House & JNF NSW have partnered up with Taronga Zoo in Sydney to produce an exciting family day out in celebration of Chanukah, this Sunday, 13^th December. Read more

Israeli government launches fund to promote normalization with Arab countries

A new fund recently started by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs and public benefit company “Concert Together for Israel” encourages existing organization to submit proposals for new public diplomacy initiatives that emphasize normalization with Arab countries, combat hate speech against Israel and build the reputation of the Jewish state online. Read more

Religious freedom as a universal message of Chanukah

On Thursday evening, Jews around the world will begin the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah, one of the most beautiful and meaningful holidays in Judaism. Read more

Jewish House sends its Channukah messages

Hospitals, clinics and police stations have received Chanukah greetings from Sydney’s Jewish House. Read more

Eight miracles in eight days

Magen David Adom’s Chanukah campaign to raise funds for eight defibrillators. Read more

Hanukkah in Auckland

Auckland Celebrates Hanukkah in the Bays with a fun family event to kick off the summer holidays. Read more

Maus forty years later

A beginning. Seems as good a title as any for musing on an everyday story of life these days. It was the Torah portion our older son had for his bar mitzvah twenty-seven years ago…writes Sue Fox. Read more

A lot is in a name, actually

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet;” so says an iconic line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. While the sentiment that names are unimportant is enticing, the reality is that these star-crossed lovers’ names are deeply important. So, too, are the names we bestow on other things. Read more

Advanced Israeli drone tech that’s taken militaries by storm now eyes civilian use

An advanced immersive-technology Israeli drone company, which has recently won multiple tenders with the Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. Department of Defense, is eyeing new paths to enter the civilian security market, an executive has told JNS. Read more

Chanukah’s history-poem

Ma’oz Tzur is part of the tug of war between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Read more

Biden and Israel’s unsteady right

In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, presumptive President-elect Joe Biden reaffirmed his plan to return the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Tasting Peace. Read more

On the other hand

It has been a great week for Israeli sportsmen and sportswomen. Read more

US Supreme Court to hear two cases related to Holocaust restitution

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on Dec. 7 related to the issue of Holocaust restitution. Read more

Biden makes the Netanyahu-Gantz divorce necessary

This isn’t what Israelis want to hear right now, but it’s nonetheless true. They need to hold another election. The prospect of a new administration in Washington is cause for concern, even if it may not prove to be the end of the world. But the challenge that this will pose requires Jerusalem to speak with one voice. Read more

The declining credibility of Palestinian objections to the IHRA definition of antisemitism

A group of Palestinian and Arab intellectuals, 122 in all, endorsed a statement last week published by The Guardian newspaper that attacked the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Read more

The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews

Among those who understood the depth of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s hostility to Israel, there’s understandable anxiety about the Obama retreads and acolytes among the foreign policy and security nominees being chosen by the prospective president-elect, Joe Biden. Read more

Transforming trauma: How Jewish voices from Iran and Arab lands can be a bridge for peace

With just the clothes on their backs and a few belongings hurriedly thrown into a sack, thousands of Jewish families were forced to flee from their homes after the declaration of the Jewish state on May 14, 1948. Read more

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