Better angels

Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg said that “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Read more

Listen and learn

Quote: “If you are not listening you are not learning” (President L.B.Johnson) Read more

A disappointing end to 2019

Well, the unthinkable has happened. Read more

Chanukah candle lighting for armed forces personnel

Military chaplains Maroubra Synagogue’s Rabbi Yossi Friedman and Caulfield Synagogue’s Rabbi Ralph Genende hosted a menorah lighting at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix Kersten by Anne M Carson…reviewed by Geoffrey Zygier

In the first two decades following World War Two, it was rare for Holocaust survivors to publicise their experiences – and of course, their persecutors had every reason to keep their mouths firmly closed. Read more

What Will Become of Us

The documentary What Will Become of Us featuring Sir Frank Lowy goes on general release in Melbourne and Sydney today. Read more

1200 attend the Festibayit

The Melbourne summer finally arrived and Hebrew music blared throughout Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre on Sunday, as Habayit, the home of Hebrew Language and Israeli Culture, held its 7^th annual Festibayit Festival. Read more

Zionism: The Concise History – a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

Zionism is one of those issues no two Jews can agree on although they can generally agree on what it is not. Read more

The Vision of Mental Health Commission

Please join Jewish House for this very important community meeting relating to Mental Health and the implementation of the Vision of the Mental Health Commission for the year 2030 as shaped by the input of the many different communities with whom they have connected. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Olé Read more

Trump, Netanyahu and Gantz can end in 2020 what began in 1920

Designating the territory for reconstitution of the Jewish National Home in Palestine – begun with the San Remo Convention and Treaty of Sevres in April and August 1920 respectively – could finally be completed 100 years later in 2020. Read more

Macron’s unsettling words: ‘Until our dead can sleep in peace’

One of the criticisms levelled at the numerous Holocaust memorials dotted around Europe is their alleged tendency to, as an American Jewish leader memorably put it to me, “encourage Europeans to commemorate dead Jews, and ignore what’s happening to the living Jews.” Read more

My Herzl: Live the Legacy

The Israel Forever Foundation has launched My Herzl International Essay Competition to inspire critical thinking and engagement with Zionism and its relevance today among young Jews. Read more

Immersive Israel Study Tour in May 2020

For the first time, NIF Australia is offering a chance to go behind the headlines of contemporary Israel and have a hands-on experience of Israeli society. Read more

Q. Does Jewish law allow a malpractice action against a doctor?

Ask the rabbi… Read more

On the other hand

It is just as well that our innovators, scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs keep Israel in the forefront of international achievements. Read more

Meet Michael Schudrich: Rabbi to Poland’s Jews, the living and the dead

The phone rings in Michael Schudrich’s study. The young man on the other end sounds upset. His grandmother died, and he needs the rabbi’s help. Read more

Austen Tayshus & Mandy Nolan’s  Very Funny 2020 Vision

Heading off to Northern NSW…so are Austen Tayshus and Mandy Nolan. Not on holiday but to entertain you. Read more

Capitalism

The popular narrative of the moment is that Capitalism has failed. Read more

 Is it good for the Jews?

Thursday 12 December 2019 is crunch day for United Kingdom Jews. Whatever the results of the elections, on Friday 13^th, the fallout and aftermath will not be good news. Read more

Could a future US administration undo Trump’s new policy on Israeli settlements?

The announcement last month by U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo that Israeli settlements are not illegal was either warmly welcomed or hotly rejected, depending on how you interpret international law. Read more

While Iran shoots protesters, Europe schemes to enrich the murderers

The news out of Iran should shock the conscience of the world. As The New York Times reported in a front-page article published on Monday, when Iranians tried to protest their government’s arbitrary decision to drastically raise gasoline prices, the regime responded with unprecedented force. Read more

New president for Wolper

Richard Glass has been elected Wolper’s seventh President after serving as Vice President for 5 years. Read more

A briefish Mahler fest: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

If you love Mahler, this was a concert for you. Read more

Why Netanyahu is not planning to resign

While Israel’s government remains in a period of unprecedented paralysis, embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains entrenched in his position, despite being handed a series of criminal indictments that have been followed by calls from political opponents as well as longtime supporters for him to step aside and allow someone else to take over, either from the opposition or from his own ruling Likud Party. Read more

Trump ends Arab preoccupation with occupation in Judea and Samaria

President Trump’s decision to recognise the right of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) ends a long-running Arab political campaign accompanied by murderous terrorist attacks to drive the Jews out under the Arab mantra – “End the Occupation”. Read more

Merited mistrust in Israel’s legal system

“Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (But who will guard the guardians themselves?)” — Juvenal, a Roman poet (circa 55 C.E.-circa 127 C.E.), Satire VI, line 347. Read more

A new kind of ambassador: The rise of Israel’s Shalva Band and Netta Barzilai

As the Shalva Band and 2018 Eurovision Song Contest winner Netta Barzilai redefine what it means to be beautiful and successful, perhaps they are, at the same time, redefining what it means to be a “traditional” Israeli ambassador. Read more

New initiative seeks to remember the ‘forgotten’ Mideast Jewish refugees

The nine young Iraqi Jewish men hanging in the center of Tahrir Square (also known as “Martyrs’ Square) in Cairo in January 1969 after being accused by the Ba’athist regime of espionage were the subject of great interest that day, as hundreds of thousands of Iraqis came to view their corpses—not only causing a terrific traffic jam in Baghdad but also sowing deep fear throughout the millennia-old Jewish community there. Seven months later, three more Jews were executed. Read more

The Kristallnacht Cantata: A Voice of Courage

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