Succot and the world

Rituals, laws, and customs exist to reinforce the fact that ideas are all very well, but we need actions to bring about change within ourselves and the world at large. We are individual organisms that think and feel. But we are not alone. Read more

Palestinians continue to incite terrorism and violence in school curriculum, says watchdog group

A Palestinian student in fourth grade opens his math book and is asked to count the number of martyrs in Palestinian uprisings based on an accompanying photograph of raised coffins at a mass funeral. Read more

PLO repudiates Trump Plan: Opens door for Jordan and Egypt

PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has publicly repudiated the Trump Peace Plan telling the United Nations (UN) in his annual address: Read more

Nobody is ignoring the Palestinians

The common refrain heard from media pundits and left-wing critics of the Gulf kingdoms’ recognition of Israel is that it ignores the Palestinian Arabs. Read more

Biden compares Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has compared U.S. President Donald Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. Read more

Babi Yar at 79 … and its future

Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. Read more

Henry Greener talks with Dick Gross

Councillor Dick Gross is a seasoned local government politician with a record four terms as Mayor of the City of Port Phillip in the Canal Ward in Melbourne. Read more

A Sukkot feature

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on Sukkot. Read more

Will Hamas and Fatah unite in force as Israel develops ties to Arab world?

The recent deals to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and Israel and Bahrain, have led many to conclude that the Arab-Israeli conflict has reached a significant turning point. Read more

UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues responds to JUST ACT report

Lord Eric Pickles has been the U.K. Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues since 2015, dealing with issues of restitution of Holocaust-era assets, in addition to promoting Holocaust remembrance, education and research. Read more

UK Labour leader Keir Starmer is drawing a line under the Corbyn years

That old cliché about the media preferring a news cycle dominated by conflict rather than reconciliation has some merit when you look at the amount of attention received by the British Labour Party before and after the disastrous leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Read more

Meet David Zyngier

Social justice activist David Zyngier is the Greens candidate in Melbourne’s Camden Ward for the upcoming Glen Eira City Council Elections…he talks on video to Henry Greener. Read more

On the other hand

This Yom Kippur will be like no other we have ever observed. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon… Read more

The night we had dinner with RBG.

The  very sad news that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died was summed up in an email from a friend in Minneapolis  – ‘Cry Our Beloved Country.  We have lost our moral compass.’ Read more

RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior

The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of Jews. Read more

BC and CE

Last Pesach (Passover) we experienced the first taste of life in the shadow of a lockdown. Read more

What’s the pointing of fasting?

Here are some of my thoughts on the significance of Yom Kippur. Read more

I’ve made it to Jerusalem! – Hebrew Uni receives 100,000 “Tweets” from 19th century Jerusalem

Ever wonder what first impressions Kaiser Wilhelm II might have tweeted upon his arrival in Jerusalem on a dusty afternoon in 1898? Read more

Making peace and winning the war against COVID-19

The peace agreement between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain represents a meaningful landmark that brings together some of the most prominent states in the Middle East. Read more

After Zoom de-platforms Leila Khaled event, Facebook and YouTube follow suit

After being de-platformed by the video-conferencing platform Zoom, Facebook and YouTube appeared to follow suit and remove an event on Wednesday being promoted and live-streamed, respectively, on their platform. Read more

Emanuel School students cycle for a cure

Twelve students at Sydney’s Emanuel School rode a combined total of 422km to raise money for The Children’s Cancer Institute. Read more

RBG and how to save a corrosive political culture

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18—the eve of Rosh Hashanah—at the age of 87 was a symbol of female empowerment, as well as a renowned scholar and jurist. Read more

Days of awe (and loopholes)

Ahead of Israel’s nationwide lockdown that was to go into effect on Friday at 2 p.m.—a mere four hours before the beginning of Rosh Hashanah—many families who knew that the coronavirus regulations would prevent them from getting together for the holiday decided to celebrate a day early. Read more

Dr David Adler to speak at international political conference

The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) President Dr David Adler has been confirmed as a featured speaker for a 20-minute presentation at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Australia to be held on the 4th November 2020 in Sydney. Read more

Jewish groups react to passing of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died on Sept. 18 at the age of 87 at her home in Washington, D.C. Read more

PLO and Hamas must hold elections or let their citizens emigrate

The PLO’s continuing refusal to negotiate with Israel on President Trump’s Peace Plan – whilst also denouncing the peace treaties signed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain with Israel – sees West Bank and Gazan Arabs remaining captive to accepting these disastrous PLO decisions without any rights to vote or emigrate. Read more

The Holocaust vs. the rest: A new threat

“Then again I got a story that’s harder than the hardcore cost of the Holocaust/I’m talkin’ ‘bout the one still goin’ on.” Read more

Zoom: Lox and Loaded

NSW Labor Israel Action Committee (LIAC) will kick off its “Lox and Loaded” zoom online speaker series next month with Ron Kampeas – the Washington DC bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) wire service. Read more

Yom Kippur: Such a long day

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on Yom Kippur 2020. Read more

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