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Can Israel’s new proactive UN posture lead to Security Council seat?…asks Sean Savage/JNS.org

Long panned for harbouring deep anti-Israel bias, the United Nations (UN) has often been discounted by critical Israeli leaders as an organisation with little hope for any success. However, after a tireless effort by the Israeli delegation to the UN, earlier this summer the Jewish state was selected for the first time to head the UN’s Sixth Committee, one of the permanent committees at the world body playing an important role in shaping international law. Read more

American Jewish leaders are on the edge of the abyss…writes Isi Leibler

The American presidential elections have created an unprecedented climate of political chaos. Both candidates are reviled by the bulk of the electorate, many of whom intimate that they intend to abstain from voting. Read more

Wonder about ghosts?…ask the rabbi

Q. Does Judaism believe in ghosts? Read more

Mahmoud Abbas’s desperate gesture

It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Embrace – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

When my teenage daughters used to complain about an aspect of their bodies, I told them they had everything they needed for a happy life. I made peace with my thighs some time ago but after viewing Embrace realized that perhaps I could have saved years of anguish if I had been more truly accepting of my own body.

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The floodgates open…writes Michael Kuttner

It was inevitable that sooner rather than later, the chickens released by the European Union’s open borders would come home to roost with a vengeance. Read more

To the French, terror is not terror when directed against Israelis

As in any complex and multi layered situation one cannot expect to become an expert on anything in a few short days…writes Ron Weiser. Read more

Palestine – European Union Rejects PLO Call To Boycott Quartet Report

European Union High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini has publicly rejected PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s call for Arab nations to lobby the UN Security Council to not endorse a Quartet Report that Abbas considers biased in favour of Israel…writes David Singer. Read more

Abusing the term ‘fascism’ in relation to Israel…writes Isi Leibler

It is now a worldwide phenomenon that left-wingers and increasing numbers of liberals chant the mantra that Israel is led by extremists and becoming transformed into a full-fledged fascist state. Unfortunately, such unadulterated nonsense is expressed daily and is highlighted in Haaretz, the Israeli post-Zionist daily newspaper, illustrating the primitive measures even Jewish opponents of our government are willing to take in order to demonise the Jewish state. Read more

What is the meaning of life?…ask the Rabbi

Q. What is the meaning of life? Read more

The Beginning of the Battle for Jerusalem in WW1

Over the last 15 months there has been much attention given to the centenary of Gallipoli, Fromelles and Pozieres. However, “Australia’s forgotten war” in the Sinai, Palestine and Syria is still in danger of remaining largely unknown, despite the fact that the ANZAC Light Horsemen overcame atrocious conditions to achieve some of the most unprecedented and courageous victories of World War 1. Read more

History Channel removes tendentious wording about Einstein and Israel

On July 11, the History Channel reaffirmed its commitment to accuracy and truth by revising its “Albert Einstein: Fact or Fiction?” webpage to replace erroneous wording tending to negatively portray Israel: “Though he (Albert Einstein) was very sympathetic to Israel, he was never an ardent Zionist—he believed in ‘friendly and fruitful’ cooperation between Jews and Arabs”…writes Myron Kaplan/JNS.org. Read more

Turkey: after the failed coup, fascism…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

We live in an era of resurgent, strongman leaders. Read more

Hitting the fan…writes Michael Kuttner

The definition of the phrase “hitting the fan” is: “messy consequences brought about by previously secret or ignored situations becoming public.”
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Palestine – Abbas Emasculates Quartet, Humiliates United Nations and European Union

PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s failure to accept the recent Quartet Report has effectively emasculated the role of the Quartet and humiliated the United Nations and European Union in their efforts to resolve the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict…writes David Singer. Read more

Montefiore’s Continuum of Care

Sydney’s Montefiore Home is one of Australia’s leading aged care provider with a proud history spanning more than 120 years, and a commitment to provide exceptional levels of care. Read more

Global chaos — a byproduct of the failure to confront evil…writes Isi Leibler

A generation ago, the term evil had meaning. There were no bleeding hearts — certainly no Jews — who minimised the malevolency of the Nazis. Evil was evil. Read more

The Election aftermath: An interview with Mark Dreyfus

Mark Dreyfus MP gives us a Post-Mortem of the elections with Henry Greener in The Shtick Studio. Read more

The Election aftermath: An interview with Josh Frydenberg

Josh Frydenberg MP chatting to Henry  Greener in his office about the election, his electorate, his portfolio and stability of the Liberal and Labor leadership… Read more

Ask the rabbi

Q. I have always been puzzled by the verse that we say at the end of Bensching, “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread”. How can this be squared with the facts? Read more

Alternative opportunities….writes Michael Kuttner

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long you miss them.”
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Higher stakes in Lebanon…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is once again facing a build-up on its northern border, with the prospect of fresh hostilities looming. Read more

Lauded by Jewish leaders, new British Prime Minster Theresa May takes office

British-Jewish and pro-Israel groups are congratulating Home Secretary Theresa May for winning the leadership of the Conservative Party and replacing outgoing United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron, who resigned following the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) in the Brexit referendum last month…writes Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org. Read more

China Can Exploit United Nations Double Standards On Palestine

International support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) – despite its rejection of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter – could be exploited by China to blunt international action following an unfavourable ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration against China in The Hague…writes David Singer. Read more

Love & Friendship – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

It’s interesting that non- British directors consistently produce fine British costume dramas. Read more

No permanent allies or enemies: only permanent interests

Aware that President Erdogan remains an aggressive Islamist and presumably harbors as much love for Israelis as we do for him, the government was strongly criticized for the unpalatable concessions it granted in order to restore economic and diplomatic relations with Turkey…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Is an election brewing in Israel?

At the annual Herzliya Conference in Israel last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a seemingly unprecedented barrage of attacks from a number of political speakers, who contended that it was time for a change of direction in the Jewish state. Read more

The Israeli Climate…ask the rabbi

Q. For such a small country Israel has a wide climatic variety. Does this have any effect on Jewish identity? Read more

Palestine – Quartet and Two-State Solution Sink into Political Oblivion

The Quartet – America, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – has effectively consigned any negotiated two-state solution to political oblivion with its latest Report…writes David Singer. Read more

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