Belgium’s carnival of hatred is still going strong
October 30, 2019 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
A few years ago, I was paying for some items at a large department store in the Netherlands when I was startled by the sight of a doll behind the cashier’s desk that appeared, at first glance, to be a grotesque racial caricature of a small black child wearing an elfin costume. Read more
Attorney for Netanyahu: What if the prime minister never received a bribe?
October 30, 2019 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
This week, a recording of a conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the owner of Israel’s Yediot Achronot newspaper, Arnon Mozes, was released to the press. Read more
Balfour Declaration and Mandate for Palestine still keys to peace
October 30, 2019 by David Singer
The Balfour Declaration (“Declaration) issued on 2 November 1917 and the Mandate for Palestine (“Mandate”) issued on 24 July 1922 still remain the keys to resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict. Read more
Would I lie to you! The beginning at the Jewish International Film Festival
October 29, 2019 by Toni Susskind
Would I lie to you! The beginning, or La verite si je mens! Les Debuts, is one of the many films playing at this year’s Jewish International Film Festival this year. Read more
Examining hate and hope one year after Pittsburgh’s deadly Tree of Life shooting
The mass shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh took place exactly a year ago this past Sunday, on Oct. 27, 2018, and the tragedy remains a lesson about combating hate and bigotry against world Jewry. Read more
With ball in Gantz’s court, he’s shooting for support wherever he can find it
October 29, 2019 by Dov Lipman - JNS
Benny Gantz and the Blue and White Party are hard at work trying to find other parties to join his coalition to give him the 61 mandates needed to form a government. Read more
‘Washington Post’ calls dead ISIS leader al-Baghdadi an ‘austere religious scholar’
On Oct. 27, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Read more
Let’s talk about sex at the Classic
October 28, 2019 by Toni Susskind
This year’s 28th JIFF kicked off in Melbourne last Thursday night at the Classic Cinema, signposting the start of a three-week movie feast, that focuses on Israeli and Jewish-themed films. Read more
Feintooner
October 28, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon – Quid Pro Quo. Read more
Transplanting animal’s organs into humans? Ask the rabbi
October 28, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple gives his answer. Read more
Meet Michal Aviad
October 27, 2019 by Toni Susskind
Michal Aviad is a director, scriptwriter, producer and senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television in Tel Aviv University. Best known for her documentaries, Working Woman is a fictitious narrative that focuses on sexual and psychological harassment in the workplace. Read more
Alone Together
October 25, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israeli filmmaker Kineret Hay-Gillor is currently living in Sydney with her doctor husband who has been posted here…but she is making good use of her time producing a film about Australia’s first Jewish same-sex marriage and screening her award-winning documentary Alone Together. Read more
Gantz’s empty mandate may lead back to Bibi
October 25, 2019 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
History has been made in Israel as, for the first time in a decade, someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu will be tasked with forming a government. Sort of. Read more
Impeachment
October 25, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
In 1599, a group of London merchants got together to petition Queen Elizabeth 1st to grant a charter to “trade on wares, jewels or merchandise in the East Indies.” A year later, it was granted. And so began the life of the East India Company (EIC). Read more
Warren, Palestinian Jew-hatred and the destruction of the West’s moral compass
October 25, 2019 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territories. Read more
JIFF tickets giveaways
J-Wire has double passes to give away for the Jewish Film Festival [JIFF]. Read more
Worthless words and shameful silence
October 25, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
The unfolding tragedy now enveloping the Kurds, recent massacres of the Yazidis and current persecution of Christians & Bahai’s should be a stark reminder to Jews that history does indeed repeat itself. Read more
World Jewish Congress shames us
October 24, 2019 by Isi Leibler
The World Jewish Congress purports to represent Jewish communities throughout the world. Although its president (and prime funder), Ronald Lauder, at times feels free to ignore governance on issues related to Israel, the WJC has successfully issued streams of positive statements on Jewish issues which the media frequently quotes. Read more
As mandate passes to Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz, all eyes now turn to Mandelblit
October 24, 2019 by Dov Lipman - JNS
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the process of trying to form a government 28 days ago, he had 55 Knesset seats supporting him—32 from his Likud Party, nine from Shas, eight from United Torah Judaism and six from Jewish Home/New Right. Read more
JPs get thanks for 50 years service
October 24, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Member for Vaucluse, Gabrielle Upton MP today congratulated seven Justice of the Peace from the Vaucluse electorate in Sydney for their 50 years of service to the community. Read more
Do you believe in heaven and hell?
October 24, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
Feintooner
October 24, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon….Hot Potato. Read more
The beauty of sadness: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
October 24, 2019 by Fraser Beath McEwing
While concert programs are usually eclectic, so that everybody gets at least something they like, last night’s SSO offering in the Masters Series was unashamedly emotional from start to finish. And I, for one, loved it, not just for the program but the quality of the performance. Read more
Germany’s rising far-right threat
October 20, 2019 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
On the night of June 2, a German politician by the name of Walter Lübcke was found lying dead in the garden of his home in Wolfhagen — a village on the outskirts of the city of Kassel in the centre of the country — with a gunshot wound to the head. Read more
When the dust settles in Syria …
October 20, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
To speak about Kurds has suddenly become a cry in favour of human rights and self-determination by the Western press, and rightly so: The assault they are suffering is lethal and may become genocidal. Read more
Vote recount could possibly end Israel’s electoral morass
October 20, 2019 by David Singer
Israel’s President Rivlin is due to make a decision on October 24 on whether to extend for another 14 days the mandate he granted to Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel’s next Government. Read more
Beyond the chorus of indignation
October 20, 2019 by Efraim Inbar
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw American soldiers stationed in northeastern Syria from the Turkish border has been met across the board by a chorus of moral indignation. It has been termed “a betrayal of the Kurds” or an “abandonment of allies.” Read more
Cycling Tel Aviv – Israel’s largest cycling event
October 18, 2019 by TPS-IL
Cycling Tel Aviv – Israel’s largest cycling event. Thousands participating this morning. Read more
From Congress to classrooms: Reframing the Israel narrative
October 18, 2019 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Concern about resurgent antisemitism has been at fever-pitch among Diaspora Jews for years. Read more
Sin? Not such a big deal
October 18, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
Next week we will restart the annual Torah reading cycle and that always reminds me of Sin! Adam and Eve and all that. Read more
