The Ausraeli community in Australia: a new report
November 11, 2020 by Ran Porat
Israeli emigrants to Australia, aka Ausraelis, have built a vibrant community which operates within and outside the wider Jewish community. Read more
A man who exemplified what it meant to be a Jewish leader
November 11, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
You didn’t have to agree with everything Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said or wrote to understand the value of what he was trying to teach. Read more
Biden administration will likely seek to make its own stamp on Mideast, say experts
November 10, 2020 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s yet-to-be-confirmed victory over incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump has ushered in a flurry of questions in Israel over what a Biden-Harris administration would look like and how it would differ from the Obama administration specifically with regard to Israel. Read more
Israel’s president shouldn’t obfuscate the particularity of antisemitism
November 10, 2020 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
To mark the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted a global memorial, live-streamed from his official residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Read more
Can a community accept gifts from crooks? Ask the rabbi
November 9, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Well…can it? Read more
Still stuck in a time warp
November 9, 2020 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Some of you will probably be familiar with a charming German movie called “Goodbye, Lenin,” the story of which concerns a woman in Communist-ruled East Germany who falls into a coma and wakes up a few months later in a unified, democratic Federal Republic of Germany. Read more
What a Biden presidency could mean for Israel
November 8, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
For some supporters of President Donald Trump in both Israel and the United States, the prospect of a President Joe Biden is a scenario they never wanted to contemplate. Read more
On the other hand
November 8, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
We face an age of uncertainty unprecedented in recent times. Read more
Feintooner
November 8, 2020 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon….Electile Dysfunction Read more
What the next US administration could mean for Israel and the Middle East
November 6, 2020 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
With razor-thin margins separating U.S. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the contentious race for the White House has yet to produce a clear victor. Read more
Electing a president under an erupting cultural volcano
November 6, 2020 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The U.S. presidential election has illustrated more graphically than ever before that we are living beneath an erupting civilizational volcano. Read more
80th Dunera Anniversary event – survival through sculpture
November 6, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
The Dunera Association together with Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue and the Duldig Studio will present a special event to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the arrival in Australia of the Dunera and the Queen Mary. Read more
Yemen Blues to rock Australia
November 6, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
Yemen Blues will be performing a new show “We Shout Love” – Say No to Racism in a special free online event presented by Emanuel Synagogue and the Israeli Embassy. Read more
Abraham’s children
November 6, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
Anyone familiar with the art of Cathedrals and Churches in Europe will know that someone called Melchizedek figures prominently. Who was he? Read more
Double double toil and trouble
November 6, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
The witches’ incantation from Macbeth succinctly describes the developing chaos now facing many citizens in various countries. Read more
Trump confirms Israel’s permanent presence in Judea and Samaria
November 6, 2020 by David Singer
President Trump – fighting for re-election in America – has now lifted restrictions on American federal investment in science, research and agriculture projects undertaken in Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Read more
Opera Australia to return to the Sydney Opera House in January
November 5, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Opera Australia will return to the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage for the first time since the coronavirus shut down its 2020 season in March, today announcing a three-month COVID-safe season that includes two productions never before performed by the Company. Read more
In memory of Yitzak Rabin
November 5, 2020 by Peter Wertheim
Yitzhak Rabin was one of the giants of the cause of Zionism and the State of Israel…writes Peter Wertheim. Read more
‘Flowers for Shabbat’: Healing our divisions
The world is more divided than it has been at any time in recent history. Across the globe, deep social fissures have been exposed with communities fractured along political, social and religious lines…writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein.
Is there a way back from a broken political culture?
November 4, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Many Americans are anticipating a return to normalcy once the votes have been counted and the presidential election determined. Read more
Democracy in Danger
November 4, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
The New Israel Fund Australia is hosting a digital event with veteran New York Times columnist Roger Cohen and academic and former deputy Knesset speaker Naomi Chazan to delve further into the troubling attacks on democracy and pluralism around the world. Read more
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman: Mideast is ‘exploding with good opportunities’ under Trump
November 2, 2020 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
Over the past four years, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has charted a new direction towards Israel, Iran and the greater Middle East. Read more
A conformist media is no friend to freedom
November 2, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
He’s exactly the sort of person conservatives and some of Israel’s most ardent supporters despised. Yet today he’s being lionized by supporters of the most pro-Israel president in history and attacked by left-wingers who once idolized him. Read more
The true Rabin legacy could be the basis of a national consensus
November 2, 2020 by Efraim Inbar
Twenty-five years after Yitzhak Rabin’s murder and still, the debate about his legacy heats up every year as the date of his memorial ceremony approaches. Read more
Australian preacher spreading coronavirus conspiracies mixed with antisemitism
November 2, 2020 by Ran Porat
Sufyaan Khalifa, a Perth resident born in Algeria, is busy spreading coronavirus conspiracies online. Sadly, but not surprisingly, his preaching is also heavily infused with antisemitism and Israel hatred. Read more
How do I get over guilt?
November 2, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
David Southwick talks COVID
November 1, 2020 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
David Southwick MP Zooms in from his office in Parliament House to discuss with Henry Greener the loosening of COVID Restrictions by Victorian Premier Dan Andrews. Read more
Feintooner
November 1, 2020 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Made in Israel. Read more
Will Trump’s pro-Israel moves stand the test of time?
November 1, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
For President Donald Trump’s Jewish supporters, these last moves are just the icing on the cake. Read more
Oh, the irony, Jeremy!
November 1, 2020 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
During Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure at the helm of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, one of the many antisemitism scandals that enveloped the party revolved around a speech he had given while still a backbench member of parliament, in which he ventured that British-born “Zionists … despite having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives … don’t understand English irony.” Read more
