Britain and Australia more supportive of Israel than Obama and Kerry

When the British Prime Minister and the Australians foreign minister both criticise the Obama administration for being unfair to Israel, you can be sure that something is very wrong with what President Obama and Secretary Kerry have been doing…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Controversy erupts over ex-diplomat Indyk’s statements about Israel and Jews

Several Jewish organisations and leaders are expressing alarm over former U.S. diplomat Martin Indyk’s role in the Obama administration’s recent Israel policy moves…writes Rafael Medoff/JNS.org. Read more

Short+Sweet Turns “Sweet 16” in January 2017

Short+Sweet has spread the popular 10-minute format in theatre, dance, cabaret & comedy across Australia and the globe – with festivals now as far afield as Hollywood, India, Malaysia, Dubai and NZ. But the original theatre festival in its Sydney home is ‘sweet 16’ this year… and plans to celebrate in style! Read more

New Year expectations…writes Michael Kuttner

As the civil year of 2016 draws to a close we look with uncertainty towards 2017 and wonder whether it can be worse than this year. Read more

Responding to Obama’s malicious betrayal of Israel…writes Isi Leibler

As predicted, on the eve of his retirement President Barack Obama betrayed Israel. The former long-standing congregant of the paranoid antisemitic pastor Rev. Jeremy Wright who has a penchant for supporting to the Moslem Brotherhood, broke with forty years of U.S. bipartisan policy of protecting the Jewish state from the wolves at the United Nations. Read more

Obama and Kerry open door for Palestine Mandate Solution

US Secretary of State John Kerry – perhaps unwittingly – has now opened the door to reviving the solution contained in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – one homeland for the Jews and one homeland for the Arabs (“Palestine Mandate Solution”)…writes David Singer. Read more

A Palestinian defeat is good for all…writes Daniel Pipes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was photographed Dec. 21 carrying a copy of “Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History,” by John David Lewis (Princeton University Press, 2010). In that book, Lewis looks at six case studies and argues that in them all “the tide of war turned when one side tasted defeat and its will to continue, rather than stiffening, collapsed.” Read more

The Edge of Seventeen – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Angst and tantrums – the teenage years are a challenge for all involved.  This well drawn portrait from writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig is worth a look for its depiction of a girl who has yet to work out her place in the world, or indeed, if she even has one.

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The chanukah oil

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on Chanukah… Read more

Security Council resolution on Israel and Palestine will just make the standoff worse

In his last address to the United Nations Security Council on December 16, outgoing Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recognised that the UN is egregiously biased against Israel…writes Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin Read more

UN Security Council Resolution 2334 will undermine peace prospects

Last week’s United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSC) 2334 was shameful and totally counterproductive…says the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. Read more

Tackling Holocaust denial and Fake News

The internet had become our go to place for information and search engines serve as its gateway…writes Dr Andre Oboler. Read more

Palestine: Bob Carr’s Mistakes Need Correcting

Australia’s former Foreign Minister has entered the debate concerning Security Council Resolution 2334 passed on 23 December with his article in the Sydney Morning Herald “The Genius of the UN’s Resolution on Israeli settlements” (December 27). Read more

Did Amona play a role in the U.N. settlements vote?…asks Ron Weiser

Over the past month or so Israel’s  Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Lieberman have cautioned members of their own government against making any rash statements or legislative proposals in anticipation of what President-elect Trump might or might not give a green light to next year, in order to avoid inciting President Obama in his last few weeks in office. Read more

New Zealand’s shameful charade…writes Michael Kuttner

In a fitting finale to a year marked by international hypocrisy and double standards, Christmas and Chanukah are being celebrated by Christians and Jews in the very places where the original historical events took place. Read more

Now What? UN Votes to Expel 400,000 Jews…writes Gidon Ben-Zvi

The United Nations Security Council vote regarding Israeli settlements, made possible to by the Obama administration’s historic decision to abstain, has effectively nullified the Oslo Accords that had been based on the concept of bilateral negotiations between Jerusalem and Ramallah. Read more

UN Security Council and Obama Revive Palestine Mandate Solution

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 passed on 23 December 2016 has buried any lingering hopes for the creation of a second Arab State in former Palestine in addition to Jordan (”the two-state solution”)…writes David Singer. Read more

In major US shift, Obama admin refuses to veto UN measure against Israeli settlements

With the U.S. abstaining from Friday’s vote, rather than exercising its veto power, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction beyond the 1967 lines… Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Childish games…writes Emily Gian

Not long ago, a group of 49 State and Federal Australian MPs signed a petition critical of the alleged “cruel” mistreatment by Israel of Palestinian minors in detention in the West Bank (actually the number is 48 because at least one alleged signatory denies having signed it). Read more

Palestinian Arab threats & New Zealand’s final futile fling

‘Tis the season of ill will again when irrational urges to condemn and threaten Israel as well as promoting pie in the sky resolutions are all the rage. Read more

Palestine: Britain rebuffs Abbas call to apologise for Balfour Declaration

Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s demand that Britain apologise for the Balfour Declaration has been rebuffed by British Prime Minister Theresa May…writes David Singer. Read more

Newt’s take on 2016

Newton Gatoff wraps up 2016 with Henry Greener, in Jewtiful mode, as jewish media is discussed, with hope for miracles, as Chanukah and Xmas collide over the holiday season !…a video presentation. Read more

My Baby Eats All The Hanukkah Gelt

Ex-Sydneysider Alexis Fishman lives in New York where she performs this catchy Chanukah song she wrote… Read more

European meltdown threatens Jews…writes Isi Leibler

Today, Diaspora Jewish communities are suffering severe trauma as they experience erosion of the acceptance and security they enjoyed over the past half century. Read more

Wielding the Holocaust stick…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

In late November, radical protesters in London attacked a Jewish communal building. As they wrestled with police at the gates, they screamed abuse about “baby killers!” and cried out, “It’s a Holocaust!” Read more

A New Light on the Festival of Lights…writes Yanai Peles

Some of my fondest childhood memories involve celebrating Hanukkah. Hanukkah celebrations have been part of my life as far back as I can remember. Read more

La La Land – a movie review by Roz Tarszsisz

It has been a long time since a movie like this graced cinema screens.

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Trump names close adviser David Friedman as Israel envoy, signaling US policy shifts

President-elect Donald Trump named one of his close advisers, attorney David Friedman, as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, in a move that likely signals a major shift in American policy on Jerusalem and Israeli settlements. Read more

Senator Arthur Sinodinos visits Our Big Kitchen

Helping other people is what brings a community together, said Senator Arthur Sinodinos as he addressed volunteers at Bondi’s OBK. Read more

Not Fake News: Remember the Time Obama Tried to Oust a Foreign Leader from Power?

With all zeal of a convert, Barack Obama in the waning days of his presidency has abandoned the Russian ‘reset’ policy and reprised the Cold War rhetoric that he mocked back in 2009, when he said that “great powers do not show strength by dominating or demonising other countries. The days when empires could treat other sovereign states as pieces on a chess board are over.” Read more

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