Netanyahu and Liberman must stop Israel’s third election in a year

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Liberman have finally met  – albeit for just one hour – to discuss the possibility of the 63  votes they control being converted into Israel’s next Government. Read more

On the other hand

The Government is still in a state of limbo with politicians failing to agree on a majority coalition. Read more

The sorry tale of two photographs

As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from the first decade of Nazi power: Jews forced onto their hands and knees to clean the sidewalks; a young Jewish woman fleeing from a crowd in a blind panic, her dress ripped open; Jewish schoolchildren compelled to wear a yellow Star of David as a badge of shame. Read more

Whatever happened to the Palestinian ‘diplomatic tsunami’?

It was only eight years ago that supporters of Israel were trembling at the possibility that support for the Jewish state would soon be washed away by a “diplomatic tsunami” that would be unleashed by the Palestinians at the United Nations. Read more

Alternative Jordans?

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” — Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery Read more

Going abroad

J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…today Palermo. Read more

Saluting one of the last living heroes of Israel’s fight for independence

Nothing really prepares you for the Smoky smile and the twinkle in an eye undimmed by nearly a century on earth. Read more

Decision time

The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for making decisions. Read more

Why do bad things happen

For thousands of years, we have been asking why God lets bad things happen to good people and good things happen to very bad ones. Read more

Netanyahu’s fate and the future of Israeli democracy

This week a legal proceeding is taking place that may have as much if not more to do with the future of Israel’s government as the stalemated negotiations to form a new governing coalition. Read more

Going abroad

J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…the jewels of Faberge. Read more

Ester Fiszman 1930-2019

The passing of Esther Fiszman at age 89 severs another vital link to our living past. Esther was a living witness to both humanity’s darkest hours. And to humanity’s warmest moments with Australia openly welcoming distraught European migrants post the war to build a new life. Read more

Going abroad

J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…St Petersburg on the town. Read more

It’s time to put an end to labeling Trump an anti-Semite

This July, Aaron Boone, the manager of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees, created an Internet meme when he launched into an epic and profane rant in taking issue with a call that went against his team. Read more

Should Israel invade Gaza?

As Israeli frustration mounts about violence coming out of Gaza, the idea of a ground invasion, and once and for all to finish with Hamas aggression, becomes more appealing. Read more

Going abroad

J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels..he visits Russia’s Versailles. Read more

Henry Greener visits Beit Chabad

Torah Scholar and teacher Ovadia Antian blows his Shofar at Beit Chabad after a spontaneous meeting with Henry, while he is waiting to interview Rabbi Dudu Lider. Ovadia tells us about Sukkot in terms of its relationship to Rosh Hashanah. Read more

BDS (Bibi-derangement syndrome) and the myth of Israel theocracy

“ …  for most Israelis, the election results are signalling hope! … hope that we were saved from halachic state and messianic tendencies govern[ed] by a prime minister that undermined the fabric of the collectivity!” — Professor Yossi Shain of Georgetown University and Tel Aviv University, in a Facebook exchange with me over the significance of the recent election results Read more

The state of the U.K. Labour Party

The British Labour Party held its annual conference this week in the southern coastal city of Brighton, where tens of thousands of party members assemble. Read more

In Britain, Boris is opening the door for Jeremy

Jeremy Corbyn’s prospects of becoming Britain’s next leader received an important boost last Friday, when the head of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, intimated that her party would back him as prime minister if that was the only way to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union on Oct. 31 without a divorce agreement in place. Read more

Sushi In The Succah

In celebration of Succot,  Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel is organising a social event for Jewish adults in their 20s and 30s. Read more

Going abroad

J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…St Petersburg Day Two. Read more

On the other hand

A New Year dawns and Israel stands poised to make yet another twelve months of record-shattering innovative achievements. Read more

Remember

The occasion that we now call Rosh Hashana, is referred to in the Bible only as Zihron Teruah – the Day of Remembering with Sound. One is bound to ask: “remembering what? And what does the sound of the Shofar have to do with it?” Read more

Labour’s anti-Israel fervor on full display as Brexit chaos intensifies

As Britain’s Brexit agony erupted this week into a full-blown constitutional crisis with a ruling against the prime minister by the Supreme Court, the Labour Party was also tearing itself apart over Brexit at its annual conference. This was small comfort to British Jews. Read more

Creating options and opportunities for haredi youth to serve in the IDF

A recent political deadlock over the issue of drafting haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youths into the Israel Defence Forces was one of the key reasons that led Israelis to the polls last week for the second time in less than six months. Read more

Israel’s do-over election performed a vital service for democracy

Like many Israelis, I was horrified when April’s election led to another in September; it seemed a colossal waste of time and money. Read more

Going abroad

J-Wire’s music reviewer Fraser Beath McEwing has added another string to his bow as he takes J-Wire readers on his travels…St Petersburg. Read more

Murky horizons

Change is in the air, from politics to the weather and of course as we transition from the outgoing year to the uncertainties of a new year. Read more

Friends of Kaveret to play in Sydney

Earlier this year a group of talented musicians came together to form the band החברים של כוורת– “HaChaverim Shel Kaveret – Friends of Kaveret” and they will appear in Sydney next month. Read more

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