Danby responds to Hawke article in the Australian Financial Review
February 21, 2017 by Michael Danby
Bob Hawke is a respected former Labor PM (AFR 13.2.2017) but he has incorrectly elevated Israeli settlements in the West Bank as the major barrier to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more
Kosher Theatresports: more laughs than you could poke a shtick at!
February 21, 2017 by Geoff Sirmai
In what was the closest finish ever seen in 22 years of Kosher Theatresports at Sydney’s Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Read more
How to become Jewish…ask the rabbi
February 20, 2017 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple answers question on Judaism including why black is associated with bereavement. Read more
A journalist’s blind view of Israel
February 20, 2017 by Simon Plosker
Fairfax Media’s Chief Political Correspondent Mark Kenny’s opinion piece “The West’s blind support for Israel has done it no favours” appears in both the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The word “blind” in the headline is an apt description of Kenny’s views when it comes to Israel…writes Simon Plosker/Honest Reporting. Read more
Trump-Netanyahu meeting shatters ‘Palestine First’ regional peacemaking strategy
February 19, 2017 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed Feb. 16 that the two-state solution—whereby an independent, sovereign Palestinian state would be created alongside the state of Israel within agreed and final borders—was, if not quite dead, fast approaching death’s door…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more
The lion was let out…a music review by FraserBeath McEwing
February 19, 2017 by Fraser Beath McEwing
I enthusiastically joined an almost full house at the Sydney Opera House to hear the embedded grand organ played – as I have occasionally done in the past – but nothing prepared me for uplift and grandeur produced by English-born, Australian-educated organist, Joseph Nolan…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more
Meet Karen Feldman
February 19, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Karen Feldman’s Mazl is in Yiddish Songs, a journey she has taken over many years…now finally recorded on a CD, remotely collaborated with musical director Adam Starr and musical arranger John Sharpley. A video interview. Read more
Bush, Obama, Russia, EU and UN buried under Trump Landslide
February 17, 2017 by David Singer
President Trump has buried the Bush Roadmap and any lingering hope for the creation of a second Arab State (“the two-state solution”) – in addition to Jordan – in the territory designated under the 1922 Mandate for Palestine…writes David Singer. Read more
Reality in Washington, denial in Ramallah, fantasy in Stockholm and the U.N.
February 17, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
The long anticipated meeting between Israel’s Prime Minister and President Trump has taken place. Fallout has been swift with reactions ranging from shock to pleasant surprise. Read more
Is your cup overflowing?…asks Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
February 17, 2017 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
In Jewish tradition all important events are marked with a blessing recited over a cup of wine. Read more
Trumping Solutions…writes Emily Gian
February 17, 2017 by Emily Gian
Two days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Donald Trump met in Washington for the first time since the latter was inaugurated. The greeting was done in a far warmer manner than similar meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama. Read more
Feintooner cartoon
In his sights this week, is Marine Le Pen and Bernard-Henri Levy… Read more
Information evening at Montefiore
February 16, 2017 by Natalie Shymko
Sydney’s Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home recently hosted a community information evening at its Randwick Campus in an open forum to help address some of the complex questions it receives in relation to the provision of aged care services. Read more
White House of Cards: Israeli-American Relations Should be Based on Self Interest, Not Love
February 15, 2017 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
There is much anticipation in Israel over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump this week. Read more
Trump and Congress can Make America Great Again…writes David Singer
February 15, 2017 by David Singer
President Trump and Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders this week have the last opportunity to resuscitate the two-state solution laid out in President Bush’s 2003 Roadmap adopted by the Quartet – America, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations (“Bush-Quartet Roadmap”). Read more
MacPlan 2017: the Maccabi NSW year ahead
February 15, 2017 by Jake Rosengarten
Maccabi NSW Board members, professional staff and club representatives have met in Sydney to plan what is primed to be a busy productive year at the organisation. Read more
What Maimonides teaches us about Trump…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org
February 14, 2017 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
If anyone can be said to have discovered the formula for a world without evil, that accolade belongs to the great medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. “For through cognition of the truth,” Maimonides wrote, “enmity and hatred are removed and the inflicting of harm by people on one another is abolished.” Read more
Why don’t Jews have saints?…ask the rabbi
February 13, 2017 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Q. Why don’t Jews have saints like the Catholics? Read more
Australian Council for Christians and Jews Multi-Faith Israel Encounter
February 12, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Jews Christians and Muslims will explore Israel together while learning about the common roots of their respective faiths during a multi-faith study tour later this year. Read more
Forbidden Music: Composers banned by the Third Reich
February 12, 2017 by Stevie Whitmont
Continuing a series by Stevie Whitmont of music banned by the Nazis…this month features Arnold Schoenberg. Read more
Silence – a movie review by Glen Falkenstein
February 12, 2017 by Glen Falkenstein
Silence is about as far as you’ll get from Hollywood fare in a February release from an A-list director. Read more
New York Jewish artist at the NGV
February 10, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The NGV has launched pioneering Jewish American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner’s latest installation OUT OF SIGHT, a participatory hopscotch-inspired artwork that aims to inspire and engage through positive visualisation. Read more
Hidden Figures: a movie review by Glen Falkenstein
February 10, 2017 by Glen Falkenstein
Taking the top spot on opening, Hidden Figures, one of several Best Picture nominees and popular releases depicting historical racial tensions in the United States, hits a chord to which many of its more dramatic counterparts never come close. Read more
Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Set To Expose Obama’s Collusion On Resolution 2334
February 10, 2017 by David Singer
One of the intriguing aspects of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on 15 February will be the evidence he produces to President Trump to establish former President Obama’s collusion in promoting Security Council Resolution 2334…writes David Singer. Read more
Selective outrage…writes Michael Kuttner
February 10, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
This week has seen a dazzling outburst of self-righteous outrage by all and sundry against Israel. Read more
The Temple of Song
February 10, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Ariella Gery tells Henry Greener about the Temple of Song, a casual, occasional gathering of Israeli musicians Amir Paiss, Avishai Barnatan and Shai Shriki, playing beautiful tunes and niggunim, encouraging the audience to participate by forming a Sacred Singing Circle…a video report. Read more
Newt’s News
February 10, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Newt’s News exposes Fake News to the Light !!! – Prager University studies the real Truth about the unreal Fake News…!!? – Donald Trump’s Truth Revealed…!! – Dr Allan Dershowitz’s Book shook the life of a Pakistani Brit’s prejudices about Israel and the Jewish People. Read more
See you at the Demonstration: Protestors Remember the Refugees, Forget the Jews
February 9, 2017 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
Mass protests against the newly minted presidency of Donald Trump have become a cultural phenomenon. Thousands of earnest snowflakes, sanctimonious college professors and outraged celebrities have joined forces in a desperate attempt to ‘let them in.’ Read more
Fences: a movie review by Toni Susskind
February 9, 2017 by Toni Susskind
Fences is a movie that takes its time exploring and unravelling the complexities of human reasoning and nature. Read more
At last, a real threat
February 8, 2017 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
I will admit that this sounds perverse, but Iran’s recent ballistic missile test was welcome in one important sense. Let me explain…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more
