Why the ABC should apologise for its Good Friday interview of Rev Dr Stephen Sizer

For centuries, Easter Holy Week was an occasion for incendiary sermons and outbreaks of mob violence against Jewish communities throughout Europe…writes Peter Wertheim. Read more

Invasion of the ‘body counters’

Almost every headline about the latest Gaza violence focuses on the number of Arabs who were killed the previous day…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS. Read more

More than just bad optics on immigration?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a lot of bad days recently…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

On Zionism, progressives take a page out of the socialist playbook

There is a tragic account of the last moments of Grigori Zinoviev, the veteran Russian Bolshevik leader of Jewish descent who was executed by Stalin in 1936…writes Ben Cohen/JNS. Read more

Analysis: Latest Israeli airstrike in Syria likely stopped new Iranian threat

The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments to its north…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

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What chemical weapons?  This week’s cartoon. Read more

Is there a Jewish perspective on ball tampering?

Well there may be there is…why not ask Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

Maccabi future hockey stars wanted

Melbourne’s Maccabi Hockey Club is looking for U14 Kids to join one of our hockey teams for the Winter season. Read more

Jordan considers replacing PLO as Israel’s negotiating partner

Two recent events confirm that Jordan is seriously considering replacing the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as Israel’s negotiating partner to resolve the allocation of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) between Israel and Jordan. Read more

On the other hand

A record number of pilgrims, Jewish and non-Jewish, gathered in Jerusalem during the week of Passover and Easter. They were able to witness for themselves the exciting positive developments taking place here. Read more

Hamas inspired violent riots on Gaza-Israel border

The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) alerts the Australian public to the real facts on the ground in the past week’s conflict along the Israel Gaza border fence. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon – “Pieceful” Read more

The Saudis exit the conflict with Israel

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman made history after telling The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that his country recognised the right of the Jews to “their own land.” Read more

AUJS delegation to Canberra

As we gathered around our Seder tables last Friday night, our community participated in an historic and sacred tradition – commemorating the creation of the Jewish People and our wondrous liberation from Egypt…writes Noa Bloch. Read more

Britain’s Labour as a party to the hard left

More than two weeks into the great row in Britain over Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and antisemitism, and one thing becomes steadily more clear: Everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room. Read more

The real riot agenda

Quote of the day: “A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning”…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

New tactic by Hamas: Using human matchsticks to fuel the fire

The risk of the “March of Return,” organised by Hamas last Friday, is that of a new kind of mass terrorism, a new kind of war…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more

Mass march on Gaza border may only be the beginning

Friday’s “March of Return” on the Israel-Gaza Strip border ended in a way that made it clear that the Hamas-organised march was only the first act in a play that is expected to drag on for months…writes Yoav Limor.

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Thou Shalt Innovate: a book review by Elana Bowman

It has been debated and argued that Jews are G-d’s chosen people for two reasons. One is that they honour G-d and the other is Tikkun Olam, an obligation, a duty to help heal or repair the world. Read more

The Death of Stalin – giveaways

The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). Read more

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – giveaways

J-Wire has double passes to this  critically-acclaimed movie due to open later this month across Australia. Read more

Gaza and the worthlessness of international opinion

Was the Palestinian “March of Return” a propaganda success for Hamas? If you think Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a reliable barometer of international opinion, then maybe the answer is “yes.”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

We were there. Where? Ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple shares his thoughts as Passover approaches the end of the festival. Read more

Gaza: an analysis

Last Wednesday I was invited to a Jewish Day School to spend an hour with their Year 12 students to talk about issues related to Israel…writes Ron Weiser. Read more

IDF chief: The likelihood of war has increased substantially

“If the Palestinians think that they will organise a march and cross the [border] fence into our territory, they are wrong,” IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot tells Israel Hayom in a special Passover interview. Read more

Mattis-Bolton accord can sway Trump to dump PLO for Jordan

President Trump’s possible call for Jordan to replace the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as Israel’s negotiating partner under Trump’s soon-to-be-released “ultimate deal” will be considerably strengthened if Trump’s newly-appointed National Security Adviser – John Bolton – and Secretary of Defense – James “Mad Dog” Mattis – concur on such a move. Read more

On the other hand

On Seder night we remember the plagues which afflicted the Egyptians until Pharaoh let the Hebrews go. In the Promised Land today we marvel at the amazing miracles which a liberated nation is providing for the benefit of humanity. Read more

Kill or be killed: Terror is the sole tool of Hamas

After Israel buried another two young soldiers—Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, 20, and Capt. Ziv Deus, 21, who were killed on March 16 by a Palestinian terrorist after he rammed his car into a group of soldiers (two others were injured in the attack) along a road southwest of Jenin—Israeli troops on the border with Gaza blew up two more tunnels built with the intent of allowing terrorists to again enter the Jewish state. Read more

The ‘March of Return’ explains a lot

For some in the Palestinians’ international cheering squad, the March 30 “Land Day” demonstrations could be a long-hoped for turning point…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Time to reset your GPS…writes Michael Kuttner

The annual commemoration of our ancestors’ exodus from Egypt could not be occurring at a more auspicious time. Read more

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