The Israeli election: how the players line up

A month ago we raised three questions in regards to the forthcoming Israeli elections.  Read more

Why not to keep Kosher? Ask the rabbi

I can almost see you shaking your head in puzzlement: “Has he gone meshugga, that rabbi, writing an article about not keeping kosher?” Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon – Angry left winds lob incendiary balloons Read more

Trump’s plan is opportunity to change paradigm

There are clear signs that the Trump administration’s “deal of the century” – the plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is in its last stages of formulation, and will be submitted to the quarrelling parties after Israel’s elections and the formation of a new government. Read more

On the other hand

Purim is fast approaching which means that children and adults alike have some hard decisions to make as to which fancy dress costume they will cavort around in this year. Read more

Medical cannabis in Australia

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25 Years after the AMIA bombing, justice is again denied

This July, Argentina’s Jewish community will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were murdered and hundreds more were seriously wounded. Read more

Making news, rather than dealing with real problems in Israel

Israel is shaken and wounded. On Thursday, the country’s top prosecutor, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, with 57 pages of allegations, announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, thereby not only undermining a great leader—a key political figure both at home and abroad—but also clearly trying of influencing heavily the outcome of the upcoming general elections to be held on April 9. Read more

Courage to Care heads for Hamilton

The Courage to Care Educational Program will take important Holocaust messages to the Victorian city of Hamilton. Read more

The Hollow Bones launched

Shalom Sydney Jewish Writer’s Festival hosted the book launch for Leah Kaminsky’s latest novel, The Hollow Bones. Read more

Kahane

To me, the name Meir Kahane conjures up an aspect of the Jewish people that I deplore. Read more

Werther: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

Suicide is painless when Massenet pulls the strings. Read more

The Netanyahu indictments: unfair and inevitable

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foes are cheering. Read more

Multi choice mayhem

Registration for Israel’s election has closed and voters now have the task of making an informed choice from a bewildering array of no less than a record forty-six political parties. Read more

Shalom |Live Stories – “UNORTHODOX”

Shalom | Live Stories in Sydney is back with a line up that will entertain, educate and enthral with their raw storytelling around the theme of “Unorthodox” and all that word implies and entails. Read more

Fear over Kahanist Otzma Party grips left and right, but is it justified?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to cut a deal with Bayit Yehudi, and its subsequent temporary union with right-wing political parties National Union and Otzma Yehudit, has created a political storm, being called “foul” and worse by some. Read more

Banning parties in Israel and the true test of democracy

If the parties of the left had their way prior to last week, it would have spared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a lot of the trouble he got into over the deal to merge two right-wing parties. Read more

Israeli-Arab parties try to hold on to votes after breakup of Joint List

The coalition of four Arab Parties known as the Joint List was disbanded because of political infighting and rivalries, and now will run as two separate two-Party blocs, which could damage their prospects for the coming election among the Israeli-Arab public. Read more

Israel elections should send clear message to Trump, PLO, EU and UN

Israeli voters at the forthcoming elections on 9 April should be given the opportunity to send President Trump, the PLO, EU and UN a clear message on what they want to see happening in Judea Samaria and East Jerusalem (West Bank) and Gaza – the last 5% of the territory comprised in the Mandate for Palestine where sovereignty remains unresolved between Jews and Arabs (“disputed territories”). Read more

Little Purim celebrated in Sydney

This year is a leap year in the Hebrew calendar…not an extra day but an extra month of Adar allowing for two occasions to celebrate Purim. Read more

Broadlessons to be learned from the Polish imbroglio

Emotions and realpolitik do not mix. Read more

Kangarusski the past in photographs

Kangarusski has launched the photography exhibition of 17-yr-old Daniel Kuczko, 17 with the theme being A Study of the Jewish Métier in Sydney at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

ANTISEMITISM: Here and Now – a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

ANTISEMITISM: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  New kid on the block. Read more

‘Anti-Zionism’ without the hyphen

To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? Read more

Can Israel defeat Hamas without toppling it?

So far, Israel’s objectives in armed conflicts with Hamas have been limited so as to avoid the need to reoccupy Gaza or to send it down the “Somalia model” path of chaos. But there might be a third option. Read more

On the other hand

In a week when election political shenanigans reached a new low, it is a welcome relief to bask in the latest positive achievements making Israel a leader in many fields. Read more

Abortion

New York’s Reproductive Health Act was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 22, to a standing ovation and acclaim by State Legislators. This new law allows abortion on the basis of “reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case” — “the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” Read more

While hoaxes make headlines, real attacks on Jews keep happening

In the West, we’re not merely living at present through savage culture wars. We’re not merely experiencing a terrifying eruption of antisemitism in supposedly civilized countries. We are being subjected to a manipulation of reality that could have been scripted by Franz Kafka. Read more

Gantz and Lapid appeal for ‘unity,’ Netanyahu touts ‘strong leadership’

The leaders of the new Blue and White Party–Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid—held their first political rally on Thursday night after the two candidates shook up the Israeli political scene earlier in the day. Read more

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