Newt’s News
May 10, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
UK’s Left in disarray over Ken Livingston, SBS Doco on Haredi sect life in Melbourne and the Commemoration with Celebration on Israel’s 68th Birthday…a video production from The Shtick’s Henry Greener. Read more
STC’s play Disgraced lays bare a modern Muslim’s crisis of identity …a theatre review by Deb Meyer
May 10, 2016 by Deb Meyer
Arab-American playwright Ayad Akhtar is the most produced playwright in America at the moment and for good reason. Read more
Eileen Freed talks about Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’azmaut
May 10, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Eileen Freed manages Zionist Victoria’s Special Events. She tells us about the several Events related to Israel’s 68th Birthday Celebrations. Read more
Yom Ha’azmaut: The story of Hatikvah
May 9, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Want to know the story of Hatikvah? Ask the rabbi. Read more
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories…a book review by Alan Gold
May 9, 2016 by Alan Gold
Some books are ‘must-read’. Others are ‘should read’. And a lot are ‘toss away without reading so you don’t let the facts bother you.’ Read more
Palestine: perpetuating propaganda plagues peace process
May 8, 2016 by David Singer
McGraw Hill’s decision to trash copies of its textbook Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World –has been subjected to intense criticism on web sites propagating the “Palestinian Narrative” of the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more
British Labour Party engulfed by convergence of the far left and antisemitism
May 7, 2016 by Agencies
Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom have voiced their displeasure with the Labour Party in the wake of a scandal on antisemitism within its ranks continuing to engulf the country’s second-largest party. Read more
A rare insight into the making of “Shoah”
‘Shoah’ is a gruelling nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary about the Holocaust, with secretly filmed footage of former Nazi officers and interviews in which survivors relive their experiences of the Holocaust. Read more
Rising from the ashes
May 6, 2016 by Jenna Chaitowitz
Our Israel. Our Home.’ is the second video in the ‘Rising From The Ashes’ series created by Melbourne’s Jewish Care. Read more
One day or one lifetime
May 6, 2016 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
There is an interesting halachic discussion regarding the Mitzvah of Sefirat Haomer – the forty nine days that we count between the festival of Pesach and Shavuot. Read more
‘No statute of limitations on genocide,’ Nuremberg anniversary confab reminds
May 6, 2016 by Jacob Kamaras
Why should the casual observer care about the seemingly obvious need to prosecute and convict Nazi war criminals, whether it be during the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s or similar proceedings in more recent years?…asks Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org. Read more
Never again?…writes Michael Kuttner
May 6, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
Who in their wildest dreams could have imagined as the horrors of the Shoah were exposed in 1945 that a mere seventy-one years later we would be faced once again with a global outbreak of the same hatred which resulted in the murder of six million Jews and countless others? Read more
The erosion of Holocaust memory
May 4, 2016 by Isi Leibler
My grandparents and many members of my family were exterminated by the Nazis…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Monica Goldberg at the SWF
May 4, 2016 by Geoff Sirmai
Work by Sydney Jewish writer Monica Goldberg will feature in the Sydney Writers’ Festival later this month. Read more
Yom Hashoah QandA from Rabbi Raymond Apple
May 3, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Why didn’t God send a miracle to save us? Read more
Beyond Paranoia
May 3, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
Filmmaker Monique Schwarz felt so strongly about the importance of making her documentary – Beyond Paranoia: East-West, the New antisemitism – she couldn’t wait for traditional funding and used her own money.
Newt’s News
May 3, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Newt’s News on Forgiveness and the Holocaust, with clips of Kosher Weed, as cannabis is condoned by chabad, interviews with IDF Lone Soldiers, Eva Moses’ amazing attitude to forgiveness and Angela Merkel’s friendship with Israel. Read more
Arnold Zable talks about his new book
May 3, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Arnold Zable is a fighter for truth and social justice in his work as a writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate…he talks with The Shtick’s Henry Greener about his new book “The Fighter”. Read more
Bad Jews: a theatre review by Toni Susskind
May 2, 2016 by Toni Susskind
Touted as the “The funniest play of the year” by The Washington Post, Bad Jews is a black comedy set in a New York Studio Apartment. Read more
18th birthday gifts donated to BJE
May 1, 2016 by Catherine de Picarda
A Victorian teenager has donated all the money he received on his 18th birthday to NSW’s Board of Jewish Education. Read more
Trump Targets Obama and Clinton Betrayal of Israel
May 1, 2016 by David Singer
Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech has created expectations that he will match Marco Rubio’s pledge to stand by the commitments made by President Bush to Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Bush’s letter dated 14 April 2004…writes David Singer. Read more
Anti-Semitism, George Orwell, and the U.K.’s Labour Party…writes Ben Cohen
April 30, 2016 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
“It is generally admitted that antisemitism is on the increase, that it has been greatly exacerbated by the war, and that humane and enlightened people are not immune to it. It does not take violent forms (English people are almost invariably gentle and law-abiding), but it is ill-natured enough, and in favourable circumstances it could have political results.” Read more
Florence Foster Jenkins – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
April 28, 2016 by Roz Tarszisz
It must have been hard work for Meryl Streep to learn to sing off-key. Read more
Anzac Day in the ACT
April 28, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
Deliberate feckless foolish folly…writes Michael Kuttner
April 28, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
How many times must we endure a never-ending stream of unmitigated folly? When it comes to Israel apparently the answer is simple: without limit. Read more
Lest we forget the Shoah…writes Alan Gold
April 26, 2016 by Alan Gold
The recent commemoration of the 101st ANZAC Day was observed by tens of thousands of men, women and children in every city and town in Australia, as well as in the fields of France and on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula. Read more
Meet Rabbi Elisha Greenbaum
April 26, 2016 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Rabbi Elisha Greenbaum of Melbourne’s L’Chaim Chabad – Kingston and Moorabbin talks with The Shtick’s Henry Greener on the subject of Pesach and Circumcision…a tenuous but relevant connection. Read more
More on Pesach…from Rabbi Raymond Apple
April 26, 2016 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
I really did come out of Egypt. Looking for a route from Australia to Israel, my wife and I decided one year to go via Cairo. We took Qantas from Sydney to Cairo and then El Al to Israel. Read more
Jewels and Ashes – A 25th Anniversary Edition: a book review by Alan Gold
April 25, 2016 by Alan Gold
Virginia Woolf once said that every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. Perhaps the finest example in Australia today of the elemental truth of Woolf’s words is in the body of work produced over the past quarter of a century by Arnold Zable. Read more
Resetting the GPS…writes Michael Kuttner
April 22, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
Once upon a time not so long ago when planning to travel from home to one’s destination it was necessary to consult maps in order to work out the best and quickest route. Read more
