Kosher pop up restaurant for theatre production

Following the huge success of the kosher pop up restaurant at the 2016 Sydney production, MY NAME IS ASHER LEV, preparations are underway to bring back the restaurant for this year’s season. Read more

A teenager’s tortuous journey from hell

As part of Holocaust commemorations, survivors’ personal testimonies have become more important than ever…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

The Palestinians don’t want Mandela

Palestinian internal politics and liberal hostility to Israel came together at The New York Times this month…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

As Marine Le Pen advances in French election, Jewish leaders express alarm

Jewish leaders inside and outside France expressed alarm after far-right populist Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the first round of the French presidential election Sunday.  Read more

Survivor: A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust

As an incredibly moving and thought-provoking portrait of the Holocaust, Survivor captures the experience of surviving one of the darkest moments in human history. Read more

Zionism Victoria names its New Executive Director

Zionism Victoria is delighted to announce the appointment of Jean Katzen as its new Executive Director. Read more

United Nations rewrites Balfour Declaration parliamentary debate

An official United Nations document published by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat contains a deliberately altered record of a 1922 parliamentary House of Lords debate on the Balfour Declaration…writes David Singer. Read more

Mozart with differences: Fraser Beath McEwing report from New York

My reviews usually come from the Sydney Opera House but this time I’m reporting from Carnegie Hall in New York on a J-Wire special assignment. Read more

Who killed the Holocaust?

Ever dream of winning an Academy Award?…write Harry Ben-Zvi and Gidon Ben-Zvi. Read more

Ignorance and amnesia – a deadly combination

As we move further away from the years of the Holocaust we find that more individuals, adults as well as youths, are bereft of any knowledge as to what happened during that dark period…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Looks and opinions…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

In discussing the differences between people, the Talmud makes the following statement: “Just as the physical features of every human being is different, so too do their views differ from each other.”  Read more

Could this be the best dinner party conversation?

Imagine a dinner party with an acclaimed novelist and playwright, a film maker whose paternal grandparents were killed in the Holocaust but whose maternal grandfather was director of an infamous Nazi propaganda film plus one of the most influential people on Jewish Twitter with her finger on the pulse of Israeli politics. And that’s just some of the people at one end of the table! Read more

Victorian spiritual hospital visitors now need accreditation

The Victorian Government has advised that all community appointed spiritual carers visiting hospitals, unless personally invited by the patient, will require accreditation. Read more

Barghouti and The New York Times by Feintooner

A new cartoon from Feintooner… Read more

Sean Spicer and the ‘anyone I don’t like is Hitler’ rule

The biggest Jewish news story during Passover this year was the latest example of a rule of political argument: he who mentions Hitler first always loses…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more

Israelis defend their country against ‘apartheid’ smear on South African campuses

Wanana Abrams, a 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian origin, calls herself “just one of countless examples—along with thousands of other religious and ethnic minorities—of why the term ‘apartheid’ does not apply to the liberal democratic Jewish state”…writes Adam Abrams/JNS.org. Read more

Feintooner on the American Syrian attack

Cartoonist Feintooner’s take on the U.S. recent tomahawk missile attack on Syria. Read more

Klezmatics and David Krakauer heading to Australia

In news for lovers of Jewish music, Sydney is set to thrill to a double dose of the finest international world music stars in the genre. Read more

Jewish girl record-breaking power-lifter

In the testosterone-fuelled sport of power-lifting, the last person one expects to see is a slight Orthodox Jewish girl. Since she began competitively lifting at the age of eight, under the coaching of her father, Naomi “Supergirl” Kutin has consistently shocked spectators and lifters alike, lifting nearly three times her bodyweight and breaking one record after another. Read more

Terror knows no boundaries

The pervasive myth that maintains terror will vanish if only Israel appeases those dedicated to its destruction was proven yet again to be false this past week…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

The man who survived Dr Mengele’s experiments

Benjamin Steiner died in Auckland last week at the age of 81, and as Mark Jennings writes, his life story was unique in many ways. Read more

Will the world come around to Israeli public opinion on Palestinian statehood?

While the international community hangs on to visions of a two-state solution, Israeli public opinion is unified in asserting that the establishment of a Palestinian state is unrealistic and undesirable…writes Ariel Ben Solomon/JNS.org. Read more

Ken Livingstone: enabler of evil…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

I’ve written many times about the antisemitism that continues to plague the British Labour Party—once a noble party of both opposition and government that has now, under its current far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn, become a laughably ineffective opposition with little hope of attaining government leadership.  Read more

Does a terrorist fit in a big Jewish tent?

What’s the one value that the Jewish community should care most about?…asks Jonathan Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Israel, notified ahead of Trump’s Syria strike, ‘fully supports’ US response to Assad

Israeli leaders welcomed President Donald Trump’s surprise military action late Thursday to strike the airbase where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was believed to have launched a chemical attack resulting in the deaths of at least 86 Syrians, including 27 children…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Passover: We have reason to rejoice…writes Isi Leibler

Tomorrow, most Israelis, secular as well as observant, will celebrate Passover, the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from Egypt and how we became a nation. Read more

Shira’s Journey – The Jews of Greece

“Shira’s Journey” is a screenplay by Carol Freeman Gordon, with Photos by Emmanuel Santos…a video story. Read more

Working with new US envoy, Israel sees light at the end of the tunnel on UN bias

Despite owing part of its existence to the United Nations, Israel has experienced decades of bias from an institution whose stated mission includes trying to ensure international goodwill and world peace…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

NCJWA host an African woman’s group…

The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia [NSW] hosted The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe…were you there?  A J-Wire photo gallery. Read more

Tonight we dip twice

“On all other nights, we do not dip even once. On this night, we dip twice”…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie. Read more

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