How the Israeli Air Force is becoming like Google and IBM

High up in the Israeli Air Force’s (IAF) building at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, a unique department is hard at work, bringing problem-solving techniques from the world of high-tech firms into the Middle East’s most powerful air force…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS.org. Read more

What is a Din Torah?

Almost everyone has heard of it…but Rabbi Apple explains it in depth. Read more

So now American Zionists want to boycott Israel

Several prominent American Zionists – including long-time supporters of Israel – are so outraged at the Israeli government’s recent decision regarding the Western Wall and non-orthodox conversion, that they are urging American Jews to reduce or even eliminate their support for Israel…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Meet the president

The speaker at the monthly Honours Club meeting of  The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will be the university’s president who is visiting Sydney this week. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

Living in Israel is exciting and rewarding for those of us not consumed by the endless stream of negative dramas which the media loves to peddle. Read more

Sydney’s Jewish Youth in focus

The unique role which Sydney’s Jewish youth movements play within the community will come under the spotlight next Tuesday night at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum. Read more

Fake News and No News…writes Michael Kuttner

It is very rare for the international media to have no news about Israel. Likewise our local media hardly misses an opportunity to inform us about developments here in Israel. Read more

The rabbi’s answer is questioned

Rabbi Raymond Apple’s column on Orthodoxy and Reform is expressed with his customary courtesy and wit, but I believe it misses the point as far as Progressive Judaism is concerned. Read more

Is UNESCO’s denial of Israel’s ties to Jewish heritage sites irrelevant?

For most countries, the United Nations body UNESCO is a relatively innocuous organization, dedicated to preserving some of humanity’s most important cultural treasures as well as promoting scientific and educational collaborations between nations…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

The Merchants of Helsinki

Jac Weinstein’s (1883-1976) cabaret show The Merchants of Helsinki from 1930 depicts -with dollops of characteristic Jewish humour – the economic and existential crisis of the Jewish community in Helsinki in the late 1920s. Read more

Orthodoxy and Reform

Rabbi Raymond Apple deals with this oft-discussed subject. Read more

Trump can end Israel-PLO impasse using India’s Vedanta Solution…writes David Singer

The first state visit ever to Israel by an Indian prime minister – Narendra Modi – could generate the impetus President Trump needs to end the diplomatic void caused by the breakdown in negotiations between Israel and the PLO since 2014. Read more

Feintooner: UNESCO

Feintooner’s weekly cartoon… Read more

Amb. Dennis Ross: Premature Palestinian state recognition should be discouraged

At an exclusive AIJAC press briefing in Melbourne, Anti-Defamation Commission guest and veteran former US Middle East peace envoy and Ambassador Dennis Ross spoke out against calls for the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state, saying such gestures place ‘symbols over substance’ and makes peacemaking harder. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

Amazing as it seems there is never a shortage of good news about Israel. Here are three of this week’s which may have escaped the attention of your local media. Read more

Friends and neighbours…writes Michael Kuttner

New friendships consolidated, other “friends” lecturing us and our neighbours up to their usual tricks – all part of this week’s nonstop action. Read more

New study reveals Europe’s rising antisemitism forces Jews to leave or hide

Why do half of French Jews want to leave France? The rise of violent antisemitism beginning around the turn of the century has made French Jews justifiably concerned about their personal safety…writes Abraham M. Miller/JNS.org Read more

Out of the Shadows: rediscovering Jewish music and theatre

Music and theatrical works of Jewish refugee artists fleeing fascist persecution in the 1930s and 1940s will be rediscovered in a one-off festival staged by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Seymour Centre next month. Read more

A bit of Bach and a bunch of Brahms…a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

A hearty main meal had been prepared for Brahms lovers, but not before Israeli/American pianist, Orli Shaham, had served up a substantial starter of Bach. Read more

UNESCO’s Cave of the Patriarchs measure is latest ‘narrative warfare’ against Israel

An upcoming vote by the United Nations cultural body UNESCO on whether to declare Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs as an endangered Palestinian heritage site is the latest example of “narrative warfare” against Israel and Jews, legal experts say…writes Alex Traiman/JNS.org. Read more

A Memoir – Background of an Indian prime minister’s visit

This week’s historic visit to Israel by India’s prime minister revived memories of my previous associations with Indian leaders and the Indian Jewish community in the 1980s. Read more

Three times – no Palestine

Three times the Palestinians have been offered a state, three times they’ve run away…writes Michael Danby. Read more

Forbidden Music: Composers banned by the Third Reich

The last of a series by Stevie Whitmont of music banned by the Nazis…this month features Erwin Schulhoff   [1894-1942]. Read more

Trump must reject Abbas claims at UN on size of Palestine…writes David Singer

President Trump cannot begin to resolve the Jewish-Arab conflict unless he first rejects the claims made by Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations in 2012 and 2013 concerning the territorial dimensions of former Palestine. Read more

Feintooner: Modi Ani

This week’s cartoon heralds the arrival of the Indian leader in Israel… Read more

Summer in Jerusalem…writes Ron Weiser

It’s pretty hard to beat walking around the streets of Jerusalem with crowds everywhere, restaurants full and a clear mixing once again of Jews and Arabs in places like the Mamilla Mall and other common seam lines as  positive signs of the political temperature cooling, if not the hot summer sun. Read more

Federal Minister for Aged Care tours Montefiore Randwick Campus

Sydney’s Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home Randwick has hosted a visit from the Federal Minister for Aged Care and Minister Indigenous Health Ken Wyatt. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

Those relying on their local media for good news about Israel are bound to find that positive stories are few and far between. Read more

And then along came Yuja: a music review

What started out as a ‘special event’ SSO concert, then fell in a hole when the star attraction pulled out, finished up as a roaring success – thanks to a sexy Chinese girl pianist in a stunning, partly see-through evening dress…writes Fraser Beath McEwing Read more

Follow the money trail…writes Michael Kuttner

Following the billions flowing into the bottomless coffers of our so-called “peace partners” and those organisations supporting them leads one with a lot of questions. Read more

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