Beth Din and Torah Law

The Sydney Beth Din was established in the 19^thcentury by Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler…writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

The silly season

The silly season is upon us and the even sillier season seems to be approaching fast…writes Ron Weiser. Read more

New stars create another success for the world’s favourite opera

There will always be carping critics complaining about Opera Australia repeating once more the world’s most played 0pera, Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece “La Boheme”…writes Victor Grynberg. Read more

JNF on tour: Day 4

Each day a member of the current KKL-JNF Education Study Tour to Israel reports on the day’s activities. Read more

Syria is the wrong issue for a pro-Israel fight with Trump

Like most pro-Israel commentators, I’m appalled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria…writes Evelyn Gordon/JNS. Read more

Is the IDF ready for all-out war? In Israel, the debate rages on

The question of just how ready the Israel Defense Forces is for war has dominated Israel’s headlines in recent weeks…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

On the other hand

2018 may have ended but that does not mean Israel’s cutting-edge technological achievements have ceased…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Jeremy Spinak was a unifier

Jeremy Spinak was a unifier. The last thing he would have wanted is to use his funeral as a launching pad for communal arguments. He is in the world of truth and we are thankfully in the world of rectification…writes Yankel Koncepolski. Read more

JNF on tour: Day 3

Each day a member of the current KKL-JNF Education Study Tour to Israel reports on the day’s activities. Read more

None So Blind

“There is none so blind as he who will not see.” That, I think, applies nowadays to very many people…writes Jeremy Rosen. Read more

Off to a flying start

With the starter’s gun still reverberating and 2019 just dawning the election steeplechase has already attracted a crowded field ranging from old grey mares to young untrained fillies and would be stallions…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

JNF on tour: Day 2

Each day a member of the current KKL-JNF Education Study Tour to Israel reports on the day’s activities. Read more

Five questions about Israel’s political musical chairs

The old expression is that for every two Jews, there are three political opinions…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

With SpaceIL launch, Israeli children can dream about ‘reaching the moon’ and beyond

In 2019, a team of Israelis will make history when an unmanned spacecraft they built will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., destined for the moon. Read more

Mishpacha

Follow the adventures of a Jewish family some of whom you might recognise… Read more

Beth Dins behaving badly

Local Rabbis are again in the news for all the wrong reasons…writes David Werdiger. Read more

JNF on tour

Each day a member of the current JNF mission reports on the day’s activities. Read more

Amos Oz and the centrality of Hebrew in Jewish life

For those who only know Israel as a field of political combat, Amos Oz was just a writer with a point of view about his country’s basic political and security dilemmas…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

From Jerusalem to Latin America: Israel’s diplomatic successes in 2018

2018 is viewed by many experts as a banner year for Israeli diplomacy, including major achievements and enhanced international reach. At the same time, analysts say the Jewish state is facing political pushback and some significant challenges as the calendar year comes to an end…writes Steve Leibowitz/JNS. Read more

Contempt of Court

The controversial “contempt of court” and “obstruction of justice” rulings recently published and confirmed by the Supreme Court and Appeals Court against Rabbis of the Sydney Beth Din has brought much anguish and frustration to the Orthodox Jewish community in Australia and to members of the Jewish faith living abroad…writes Rabbi Shabsi Tayar. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Cement. Read more

Sydney Festival: One Infinity

One Infinity is a hypnotic, cross-cultural music and dance collaboration, in which the audience is also performers. Read more

What if the Six-Day War never took place?

If the “West Bank” was part of the “Hashemite Kingdom” up to 1967, how did it suddenly become the Palestinians’ long-yearned-for homeland which, up until then, they were submissively willing to cede to an alien potentate?…asks Martin Sherman/JNS. Read more

How to teach the Holocaust going forward

Imagine that you are a Jewish doctor in a Nazi concentration camp…writes Ben Cohen/JNS. Read more

On the other hand

Between now and April there will be an avalanche of election induced material designed to influence and persuade us as to which party is best suited to receive our vote of confidence. Read more

Kurds

The Kurds have been treated disgustingly. Like Israel, they are both a religious and secular ethnic group which stands outside the official Christian or Muslim world…writes Jeremy Rosen. Read more

Russia struggling to stop the Iranian-Israeli shadow war in Syria

It didn’t take long for the recent Israeli Air Force strikes on Iranian or Hezbollah targets in the Damascus area to receive Russian condemnation…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

Israel bombed Iranian facilities in Syria as Iranian entrenchment continues

Russia responded angrily to the Israeli air force attack in the Damascus region that took place on Dec. 25…writes Yoni Ben Menachem/JNS. Read more

Who are the real isolationists in America?

Ever since President Donald Trump astounded the world by announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, commentators have been trying to work out the significance of this decision…writes Melanie Phillips/JNS. Read more

Election fever & other ailments

Israel is currently experiencing an outbreak of measles as a result of irresponsible parents not vaccinating their children against this childhood disease…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

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