Feintooner

This week’s cartoon….All Aboard. Read more

Trump triumphs as PLO continues to dig its own grave

President Trump’s announcement on 11 September that Israel would shortly be signing a peace treaty with a fourth Arab State – Bahrain – and possibly several others very soon – has triggered a spiteful response from Saeb Erekat, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Read more

Whose shofar are we blowing?

Harry Browne, chairman of the shul building fund, approached Jack Greene for a donation. Read more

On the other hand

We seem to be exceeding a series of records at the moment. Read more

Meet Rabbi Dr Orna Triguboff

Kabbalah Teacher Rabbi Dr Orna Triguboff is Spiritual Director at the Neshama Life Organisation. She talks with Henry Greener. Read more

Jordan is harbouring brutal terrorists wanted by France and America

Speak to policy analysts or policy-makers about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and you’ll frequently encounter a series of truisms. Read more

Turkey’s bid to return to Ottoman-era glory endangers Israel and the region

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has high ambitions. He wants to take his country back to what he perceives as the glory days of the Ottoman Empire, but the leader, who has been described as “pugnacious” and has been at the pinnacle of power since 2002, appears to be leading the country down the wrong path as he quashes secularism, supports radical Islamism, suppresses democratic reforms and adopts a forceful foreign-policy approach that aims to assert Turkish hegemony in the region. Read more

Rabbis and politics

Rabbis should stay out of politics! Here we go again with this nonsense. This may sound strange coming from me. I have consistently deplored religious politics and the negative, destructive influence that rabbis and religious parties have on Israeli life. But I believe there is a difference between party politics and political issues. Read more

A chat with Dov Farkas

Caulfield Shule’s Cantor Dov Farkas leads the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation in their prayer, with a magnificent tonal voice that is virtually rapturous. Read more

Learning from the painful past

The anniversary of the outbreak of World War II has just passed and for Jews, in particular, it represents a grim reminder of lost opportunities and fateful decisions. Read more

When rabbis should not keep quiet

The former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, has come in for some stick over remarks he recently made about religion and politics. Read more

The wandering shofar

Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue’s Rabbi Rafi Kaiserblueth will tour the Eastern Suburbs on the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah sounding the shofar at chosen points. Read more

Get out your crystal ball!

A year ago, Jews looked back on 5779 and wondered, after the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shootings and a resurgence of antisemitism on the right as well as the left, how things in the United States could get any worse. Read more

Where do you draw the line with anti-Semites?

What do you think would happen if President Donald Trump decided to meet with the family of a shooting victim, and it turned out his father was a neo-Nazi?

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R U OK day is on Thursday 10 September. 

R U OK? Day: the national day of mental health awareness and suicide prevention, aims for people to reach out and ask each other if they are okay and have important conversations about mental health and struggles people are experiencing. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas – The Twilight Era

The man who came to power after Yasser Arafat’s death and determined the strategy of the “political intifada” and rejected the armed struggle in Israel is about to leave the stage, tomorrow or the day after. Read more

Is the world coming to an end?

Ask the rabbi… Read more

Daniel Gordis: “Israel education in the 21st century. What has to Change?”

The Zionist Council of NSW will host a talk with Daniel Gordis addressing the common critique among Western youth that the story they were taught about Israel is incomplete and ask how we might adjust our Israel education to meet the needs of a new generation. Read more

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain use soft diplomacy to placate Trump

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain’s decisions to allow their airspace to be used by commercial Israeli planes flying the Israel-United Arab Emirates (UAE) route are the first of what could be termed continuing acts of soft diplomacy by Arab and other Islamic states to help end the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon….The hottest tickets in town Read more

On the other hand

Schools are back and a collective sigh of relief from parents can be heard throughout the land. Read more

A chat with Jeremy Leibler

On Zoom from his home study, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia Jeremy Leibler discusses with Henry Greener the latest news coming in regarding the historic first flight (over Saudi Arabian airspace – also a first!) of an El Al aeroplane from Tel Aviv to Abu Dabi. Read more

Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto

“I was told that these were human beings. They didn’t look like human beings.” Read more

PA officials concede: ‘unprecedented slump in our diplomatic situation’

A very gloomy mood prevails in Ramallah, as the Arab League refused to hold an urgent conference at the request of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Bahrain is signalling that it is on the way to a peace agreement with Israel, Egypt welcomes the peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia opens its skies for El Al flights. Read more

The West turns a blind eye to Palestinian incitement in word and deed

Why do so many well-meaning people committed to ending abuses of power ignore the evidence of who is actually committing these abuses and blame their victims instead? Read more

Who should Jews fear most during an ‘uprising’?

It was a summer of discontent as the coronavirus pandemic raged on. The death of George Floyd, which set off a season of protests about police brutality and racial discrimination, further added to the nation’s woes as many of the demonstrations turned into riots along with acts of intimidation, violence and looting. Read more

Betrayal

The culture wars are raging around us. Anything or one who is unacceptable to the Culture Police is to be banned, silenced, and censored. Read more

Misplaced euphoria and deceitful deceptions

As though battling COVID 19 was not enough of a challenge, Israelis are now faced with a further two assaults on their equilibrium. Read more

Dunera 80th anniversary

Dunera Association’s President Ron Reichwald is celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the landing of the Dunera in Sydney with over 2,500 German and Austrian Jewish male refugees, destined for internment as enemy aliens at camps in Hay (NSW), Loveday (SA) and Tatura (Vic), after being selected in England, where a German invasion was imminent. VIDEO. Read more

Arnold Zable to discuss his latest book The Watermill at the online Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

Acclaimed Australian author, Arnold Zable, will be interviewed by book reviewer and podcast host, Nicole Abadee, on Thursday 3 September at 8pm about his latest work, The Watermill. Read more

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