Impressions from, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Debussy – and the Sydney Town Hall: a music review from Fraser Beath McEwing
February 27, 2020 by Fraser Beath McEwing
The first concert in the SSO Masters Series for 2020 ushered in the beginning of a two-year stint in ye auld and venerated Sydney Town Hall while the Opera House concert hall is up for a rebore. Read more
Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Socialism vs. Capitalism Read more
J’Accuse! Our Dreyfus and theirs
February 25, 2020 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Two months after its shellacking in the United Kingdom’s general elections, the Labour Party continues to remind British voters of why they chose the “anyone-but-Jeremy-Corbyn” option. Read more
Voter apathy threatens reunion of Judea and Samaria with Israel
February 24, 2020 by David Singer
Crunch time has come for approximately 6.5 million Jews and Arabs to vote on Israel regaining immediate sovereignty in parts of the Jewish People’s biblical and ancient heartland in Judea and Samaria – 3000 years after its loss. Read more
The battle between Jews and Jews
February 23, 2020 by Henry Benjamin
Member of the Knesset Elazar Stern is in Sydney to join in the celebrations of property magnate 87th birthday and to spread his message of hope to the Jewish world that generations to come will be proud of being Jewish…and that each individual can find his/her own way of expressing their own pride. Read more
First Aid training
February 23, 2020 by Community newsdesk
Magen David Adom is now associated with Hatzolah in bringing First Aid courses to the Melbourne community. Read more
Former MK Yehuda Glick arrested for ‘provocative behaviour’ on Temple Mount
February 23, 2020 by Josh Hasten - JNS
Former Knesset member Yehuda Glick was arrested three times over the course of a 24-hour period this week, accused by police of carrying out provocative behaviour on a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He was subsequently charged with disrupting court procedures by stealing investigative materials from a police investigation room. Read more
On the other hand
February 23, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
As we hurtle towards round three in our general elections the frenetic canvassing of voters by desperate political parties is in stark contrast to the switched-off interest shown by those targeted. Read more
The story of William Cooper
February 23, 2020 by Community newsdesk
At Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue, Abe Schwarz together with a descendant of William Cooper will present the compelling story of an Aboriginal leader who fought for oppressed Jews. Read more
The Auschwitz bombing debate continues…
Jewish Names
February 21, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
We Jews are hyper-sensitive. Recently, several people have told me how embarrassed they are that Jewish names are so prominent in the current spate of legal cases involving sexual abuse. Read more
Sanitizing Soros through guilt by association
February 21, 2020 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The law professor Alan Dershowitz has thrown a legal hand-grenade into America’s political civil war by claiming to have evidence that former President Barack Obama “personally asked” the FBI to investigate someone “on behalf” of Obama’s “close ally,” billionaire financier George Soros. Read more
Anti-Semitism can be fought only with policy action, not lip service
February 21, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Anti-Semitism turns truly dangerous when it becomes the organizing principle of a society. This occurred during the past century under Nazism and communism, and it is occurring again today. Read more
We Are on the List Again
February 21, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
As any student of Jewish history soon learns certain events keep repeating themselves in every generation. Read more
IDF’s pioneering all-women tank crews to provide protection of Israel’s south
February 20, 2020 by Yaakov Lappin
The all-female tank crews that the Israel Defence Forces will create this coming year will have the mission of defending the Egyptian and Jordanian border against intrusion by terror squads. Read more
Coronavirus, COVID -19, Prof Barry Schoub, world expert virologist explains
February 19, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Barry David Schoub MB BCh, MMed , MD, DSc, FRC Path, FCPath, FRSSAf, MASSAf , Emeritus Professor of Virology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and, founding Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, of South Africa, was, amongst many awards, invested with the Order of Mapungubwe (silver), the country’s highest civilian award, for services to science, nationally and internationally. Read more
La Traviata for $4
February 19, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
More than 400,000 people have been to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour since it launched in 2012 and to celebrate this milestone Opera Australia is offering 400 tickets for just $4 each to its 2020 production of La Traviata. Read more
Catholic Church symbolism again becomes an issue near death grounds of Auschwitz
February 19, 2020 by Judy Lash Balint - JNS.org
The protest outside the church at Birkenau during last month’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp should not have come as a surprise. Read more
Mahmoud Abbas’s map of lies
February 19, 2020 by Danny Danon
When Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas spoke before the U.N. Security Council last week to denounce U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, he brought with him a peculiar prop: a graphic with a series of maps titled “The Palestinians [sic] Historic Compromise,” which purport to show how “Historic Palestine” has “disappeared” over the course of the 20th century. Read more
Winds of Mideast change worth remembering at the ballot box
February 19, 2020 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
The significance of two events that have been upstaged this week by the Hebrew media’s incessant coronavirus coverage cannot be overemphasized—particularly with the fast approach of the March 2 Knesset elections. Read more
Dear Rafael Medoff…
February 19, 2020 by Professor Bill Rubinstein
The debate on the bombing of Auschwitz continues with Professor Bill Rubinstein answering the article written by Rafael Medoff [Feb-18] responding to Rubinstein’s piece. Rubinstein now responds to Medoff, Read more
Netanyahu goes into Judea and Samaria where Gantz fears to tread
February 19, 2020 by David Singer
The formation of a joint America-Israel committee to map out the areas of Judea and Samaria within which Israel’s sovereignty will be recognized by America – has presented Israeli voters with a real choice between the policies of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz at the upcoming elections on 2 March. Read more
Bombing Auschwitz
Build, Bibi, build
February 17, 2020 by Caroline Glick - JNS
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s release on Wednesday of its blacklist of companies with financial ties and business relations with Israeli Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is a reminder of Israel’s vulnerability and the vulnerability of Jews worldwide. Read more
Is Judaism anti-art?
February 17, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
The Bombing of Auschwitz Question: Hindsighted and Inaccurate History
February 16, 2020 by Professor Bill Rubinstein
The article by Jonathan S. Tobin which appeared on J-Wire on 22 January 2020, “Why the Bombing of Auschwitz Argument Still Matters,” is highly misleading and inaccurate, and the reasons for this ought to be set out. Read more
Beyond Duty: an exhibition review by Alan Slade
February 16, 2020 by Alan Slade
The exhibition in the lobby of the NSW State Parliament House titled “Beyond Duty” is a must-see for everyone, especially families of Holocaust survivors. Read more
On the other hand
February 16, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
We truly live in Orwellian times. Read more
Deborah
February 14, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
I have always been fascinated by the Biblical Deborah. Not the one in Genesis, but the most impressive one in the Book of Judges. Read more
Our age of miracles but possible lost opportunities
February 14, 2020 by Isi Leibler
Three months ago, who could have dreamed that we would be in such an extraordinarily good position? The Trump government had already established itself as the most pro-Israel American administration in history and publicly assumed the role of a genuine ally. Read more
