British Jews are too eager to embrace Starmer’s still dubious Labour Party

In both Britain and America, the Jewish community is increasingly badly served by leaders who seem less and less able to distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the Jewish people. Read more

Ever so grateful

My very first apartment in New York City—in fact, my very first apartment, period—didn’t have a window in the bathroom. Read more

The leftist thought police are wrong: Taylor Swift isn’t an anti-Semite

In today’s woke and hyperpartisan world, nobody escapes the watchful eye of the thought police. Not even a pop superstar like Taylor Swift. Read more

Gifts from the Heart

Elders at Melbourne’s Jewish Care have been busy assembling gift packs for people in the Jewish community to spread some cheer during these difficult days of isolation. Read more

Jewish House partners with Wesley Mission

Sydney’s Jewish House has announced a partnership with fellow crisis agency, Wesley Mission, with the opening of a new temporary accommodation property. Read more

Find your way on your phone, tablet and computer

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Binge-watching Jewish TV as an indoor sport

Netflix was surely not around during the making of the Covenant—the contract between God, Abraham and Jewish People. But more so than perhaps any other media company, Netflix is, apparently, determined to discover the destiny of the Chosen People. Read more

What would the world be like with no State of Israel?

What scholars like to call counterfactual history is science fiction for those who prefer to ponder the implications of things turning out differently in the past rather than speculating on the future. Read more

Recalling San Remo, and international law regarding the Jewish state, 100 years later

Exactly 100 years ago this week, World War I allied powers including the British Empire, Italy, France and Japan, along with the United States serving as an observer nation, met in San Remo, Italy, and ratified the 1917 Balfour Declaration, calling for a national home for the Jewish people in “Palestine.” Read more

Israel mourns 23,816 fallen on annual Remembrance Day

Israel is mourning its 23,816 fallen soldiers as Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism (Yom Hazikaron) is held, for the first time, without visitors at military cemeteries across the country due to restrictions in place during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Does Judaism believe in turning the other cheek?

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#CookingWithUIA Launches with Israeli Flavour

UIA launched its first online cooking event recently with Israeli celebrity chef and television personality, Moshe Segev. Read more

Jordan must not socially distance from Judea and Samaria’s Arabs

Formation of a National Unity Government in Israel has focused attention on the future of Judea and Samaria – 4% of the territory of the Mandate for Palestine – in which sovereignty still remains unallocated between Jews and Arabs. Read more

BINA has something for your time and your mind

While the world is slowing down Sydney’s BINA is gaining speed producing programs online for the entire Australasian communities. Read more

On the other hand

At a time when we are facing an invisible enemy and everyone is in lockdown the commemorations of Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron plus the celebration of Yom Ha’Atzmaut remind us that the Jewish People have faced worse crises in the past and have successfully overcome them. Read more

The return of populist antisemitism

To the lexicon of new terminology introduced by the coronavirus pandemic, we can add the latest entry: “Zoombombing,” or the practice of hijacking private videoconferencing calls on the Internet by unwanted intruders. Read more

From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and moral collapse

One hundred years ago this Sunday, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I signed a resolution at San Remo. Next week, Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut, the 72nd anniversary of the state’s declaration of independence. Read more

Is it wrong to let Israel make decisions for itself?

In principle, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s answer to a question about Israel’s new coalition government seems unexceptionable. Read more

Israel and the Diaspora

As we approach Israel’s independence day, the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora remains ambivalent. Read more

Time to “get over it?”

Yom Hashoah, the annual commemoration of the Holocaust, takes place every year in Israel and elsewhere immediately after Passover. Read more

Data on the South African Jewish population

A major new research study published this week estimates that South Africa’s Jewish population now stands at 52,300, with four in five living in either Johannesburg or Cape Town. Read more

How COVID-19 has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories

It’s easy to see how the coronavirus pandemic has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories. Read more

Can IsraeI’s ‘haredi’ leadership learn from their mistakes made during coronavirus outbreak?

With some ultra-Orthodox (haredi) communities in Israel having been under complete lockdown due to the high rate of COVID-19 infections, a major controversy has been raging in Israel over whether the leaders of these communities were initially aware of the dangers of the virus and, if they were, whether they intentionally encouraged their followers to flout the government-imposed lockdown rules. Read more

Shade Zahrai talks with Henry Greener

Shade Zahrai, an award-winning corporate strategist, career development expert for women, motivational speaker and life coach helps organizations navigate disruptions, inspires and motivates us in these times of uncertainty. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…WHO’s on first? Read more

Ins and outs of Israel’s unprecedented national emergency unity government

Israel’s 15-month political stalemate, which led to three election cycles within the course of a year, has come to a close with the signing of a unity government deal between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, and Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz. Read more

Let us remember what the survivors are unable to forget

Holocaust survivors do not need annual ceremonies to remind them of the Nazi atrocities that they endured or of the family members that Adolf Hitler’s henchmen slaughtered during World War II. No, those memories are just as inked in their hearts and minds as the numbers tattooed on their forearms. Read more

Palestinians celebrate International ‘Anti’-Women’s Day

The Palestinian Authority celebrated International Women’s Day last month by praising and honouring terrorists who murdered women. Read more

The Plague of Otherness (And How to Cure It)

The term “social distancing” has become the definitive buzzword to describe the advice to avoid close physical contact to contain the COVID-19 pandemic…writes Dovi Seldowitz. Read more

Why are ten men needed for a minyan?

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