Use UNRWA’s financial crisis to end its shameful apartheid system
March 29, 2018 by Evelyn Gordon - JNS
UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with caring for Palestinian refugees and their descendants in perpetuity, is facing what it terms its worst financial crisis ever. Read more
New website for Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
March 29, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Holocaust Centre has launched its new website. Read more
Harmony Walk 2018
March 28, 2018 by J-Wire Staff
The National Rugby League played a major role in this year’s Harmony Walk, a multiracial event organised by Moving Forward Together. Read more
Henry Greener meets a kabbalist rapper
March 28, 2018 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Victoria Hanna, Israeli singer and Kabbalist rapper speaks to Henry Greener about her Shtick, while she is touring Australia and New Zealand. Read more
Israeli military gets set for the mammoth task of prepping for Passover
March 27, 2018 by Yaakov Lappin
Despite its many round-the-clock security missions, the Israel Defence Forces believes that bringing the holiday spirit to its personnel is an imperative. Read more
Trump’s Bolton-appointment signals curtains for Abbas and PLO
March 27, 2018 by David Singer
President Trump’s appointment of John Bolton as National Security Adviser flags the possibility that the centrepiece of Trump’s eagerly-awaited “ultimate deal” could involve the subdivision of Judea and Samaria (“the West Bank”) and Gaza between Israel, Jordan and Egypt…writes David Singer. Read more
Seder focussed on children
March 27, 2018 by Shula Lazar
The way in which the Seder is constructed has much to teach us about parenting and education. Read more
Pesach signifies the joining of the Jewish people
March 27, 2018 by Ashley Perry - Perez - JNS
Passover has been described as the “Independence Day of the Jewish People”—the day of our national liberation. It is possible to describe the exodus from Egypt as the moment Jewish peoplehood was founded. Read more
La Bohème: Puccini’s masterpiece of love and loss transfers superbly to Sydney Harbour – reviewed by Victor Grynberg.
March 26, 2018 by Victor Grynberg
This is the sixth opera since Opera Australia commenced their Operas on the Harbour in 2012 with Carmen repeated last year. Read more
Henry has a guest from Sydney
March 26, 2018 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Judy Campbell, Artistic Director of The Jewish Choral Festival to be held in Sydney in June this year. Read more
A guide to seder time management
March 26, 2018 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple suggests a structure… Read more
The Other Side of Hope: a movie review by Hila Tsor
March 26, 2018 by Hila Tsor
For years we’ve been hearing about the conflict in Syria on the news. Read more
Feintooner
March 26, 2018 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Inhuman rights writ. Read more
Love, Simon…a movie review by Tayla Rosen
March 25, 2018 by J-Wire
An inspiring story of love and honesty takes viewers on a journey through a more light-hearted coming out story than previous films of its kind. Read more
Globalism is not a Jewish concept
March 25, 2018 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In a recent column in The New York Times, Bret Stephens argued in praise of “globalists.”…writes Melanie Phillips/JNS. Read more
Putin an anti-Semite? It really doesn’t matter…writes Ben Cohen/JNS
March 25, 2018 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Among Sephardic Jews of my grandmother’s generation, there was a popular, if unproven, belief that Gen. Francisco Franco—the military dictator who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975—was of Jewish parentage, and that this explained why he granted refuge to several thousand Jews fleeing the Nazis. Read more
The Death of Stalin: a movie review by Tayla Rosen
March 25, 2018 by Tayla Rosen
From director Armando Iannucci comes this comedy of cruelty…an avant-garde comic. Read more
The lion never got out of its cage: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
March 25, 2018 by Fraser Beath McEwing
The Sydney Opera House organ recital is something like an annual pilgrimage for me. Read more
On the other hand
March 25, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
In the week before Passover we eliminate leavened products from our homes. Good news however continues to proliferate…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
A one-on-one with Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon
March 23, 2018 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
Despite the role of the United Nations in helping establish the State of Israel in 1947, the world body has long been a forum used by other nations to single out and condemn the Jewish state. Read more
Losing the plot
In the northern hemisphere spring is arriving. In Israel it has sprung but in parts of the USA and in Europe/UK the winter thaw is delayed…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
WJC Mission highlight – Dr Einat Wilf on Zionism
March 23, 2018 by Julie Nathan
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) held a ‘Special Mission Celebrating 70 Years of Israel’, in Jerusalem over 18-19 March 2018. The delegation consisted of 70 Jewish leaders from 40 countries. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, an affiliate of the WJC, was represented by me…writes Julie Nathan. Read more
Trump takes high road as Abbas, PLO and Hamas implode
March 22, 2018 by David Singer
President Trump’s soon-to-be released “ultimate deal” – aimed at resolving the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict – seems set to see Trump not offering the PLO a seat at the negotiating table with Israel…writes David Singer. Read more
Why won’t anyone listen to Abbas?
March 22, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas keeps telling the world what he thinks…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more
Are Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem undergoing normalisation with Israel?
March 22, 2018 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
At the centre of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has been the city of Jerusalem…writes Israel Kasnett/JNS. Read more
A thoroughly good weepfest: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
March 22, 2018 by Fraser Beath McEwing
If you wanted to feel magnificently melancholic, Sydney’s Recital Hall was the place to be last night. Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra to present ‘Death and the Maiden” a title borrowed from Schubert’s Quartet in D minor arranged for string orchestra – which was the final work on the program. Read more
Magnificent Ferruccio Furlanetto lives and dies a great “Don Quichotte”: an opera review by Victor Grynberg
March 21, 2018 by Victor Grynberg
After much anticipation, and a non-appearance on opening night due to indisposition, Sydney finally saw the great Ferruccio Furlanetto in the role for which, world-wide he has appeared and received rave reviews about. Read more
Women take to song
March 21, 2018 by Community newsdesk
Sydney’s Kehillat Kadimah has hosted a women’s musical soiree evening. Read more
Alan Dershowitz on Israel at 70: ‘A Light Unto the World’
March 21, 2018 by Eliana Rudee - JNS.org
Ahead of Israel’s 70th birthday in May, longtime Harvard University Law Professor, attorney and author Alan Dershowitz announced that he is donating an ambucycle to Israel’s volunteer medic organisation, United Hatzalah, in honor of his 80th birthday. Read more
Palestinians remain wary of a new wave of terror
March 20, 2018 by Eyal Zisser - JNS
The recent uptick in terrorist attacks across Judea and Samaria, as well as on the Israel-Gaza Strip border, has raised concerns that we are on the brink of another wave of terrorism, if not a full-fledged third intifada. Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority encourage this—the former in a blatant and aggressive manner, and the latter more subtly, albeit explicitly. They each have their own reasons for this. Read more
