Newt’s News looks at the Jewish International Film Festival
November 17, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Newt’s News covers topics of interest to our community including JIFF 2015, Holocaust Movies including “Son of Saul”, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s new PM and Mitzvah Day. A video report produced by Henry Greener’s The Shtick. Read more
Celebrating Israel and the Point of No Return
November 16, 2015 by Dalia Ayalon Sinclair.
The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia’s Celebrating Israel 2015 event entitled “Point of No Return” will be dedicated to the plight of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Europe and the Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries prior and post the ‘Partition Plan’. Read more
Devries book launch
November 16, 2015 by Natalia Thomas
Robin Devries’ Book “My Mother took me to the Cricket” has been launched in Sydney…the 54th book to be published by the Community Stories Project of the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more
Bojo tells it like it is…writes Ted Lapkin
November 13, 2015 by Ted Lapkin
Amongst Palestinians, speaking well of Zionism can be a capital offence. At least that’s what Conservative Party Mayor of London Boris Johnson learned while leading a trade mission this week to Israel. Read more
What have gestures ever done for us?…asks Michael Kuttner
November 13, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
One of the unforgettable lines from the hit film, “The Life of Brian” had one of the characters demanding to know “what have the Romans ever done for us?” Read more
Telling Israel’s story
November 13, 2015 by Eileen Freed
Zionism Victoria, in partnership with the Zionist Federation of Australia, will present the Public Diplomacy Toolkit: Triumphs, Bloopers & What Can I Do, an interactive presentation by Michael Lawrence later this month. Read more
With terror abound in Israel, is news reporting feeding the beast?
November 13, 2015 by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - JNS.org
You’re a journalist on the ground in Israel during the current wave of terror. Murders are committed on your street corner. Protests are organized by your neighbours…writes Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org. Read more
Newts News: Mitzvahs and Polish Jews
November 12, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Henry Greener’s The Shtick presents Newt’s News: Mitzvahs and Polish Jews…with clips, views and current events… local and international.. Read more
Bibi’s Game: Talk Tough on Iran, Pass The White House, Collect $5 Billion…writes Gidon BenZvi
November 12, 2015 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
According to several reports, Israel wants $5 billion per year in military aid for the next 10 years. Jerusalem has been signaling that it wants more money to counter threats it says will arise as a result of the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Read more
Palestine – Obama Gives Up On Bush’s Two-State Solution…writes David Singer
November 12, 2015 by David Singer
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House this week has confirmed President Obama’s assessment that the much vaunted two-state solution proposed by Obama’s predecessor President George W. Bush on 30 April 2003 (the Roadmap) will not happen whilst Obama is President – or indeed ever. Read more
A call for unity and expressing outrage
November 12, 2015 by Isi Leibler
The world is experiencing a clash of civilizations with satanic forces seeking to revert to the Dark Ages…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
He Named Me Malala – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
November 11, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
After the Taliban tried to kill her in 2012 Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai emerges as a leading advocate for children’s rights and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Anti-Zionism is Racism…writes Ben Cohen
November 10, 2015 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
This week marks the 40th anniversary of one of the worst instances of antisemitism since the end of the Second World War. Read more
Meet Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
November 10, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Shelly Freeman interviews Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Chief Curator of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews…produced by Henry Greener’s The Shtick. Read more
Acknowledge a donor? Ask the rabbi
November 9, 2015 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Is there any issue with a school bearing the name of its donor? Rabbi Raymond Apple answers the question. Read more
Fairfax Media – spiralling into the blame game
November 8, 2015 by David Werdiger
I’m not sure what the editors at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald were thinking. Perhaps in response to the criticism of their coverage of the recent violence in Israel, they decided to publish an opinion piece written by an Israeli, and in their wisdom, they chose writer Assaf Gavron. Read more
Saving American lives
November 6, 2015 by Ted Lapkin
This past Monday I accompanied ZFA President Dr. Danny Lamm and VP Sam Tatarka to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Melbourne where we spent an hour talking to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more
What’s Facebook’s status on Palestinian incitement against Israelis?
November 6, 2015 by Alina Dain Sharon-JNS.org
After Micah Lakin Avni’s father, Richard Lakin, was shot in the head and stabbed several times by Palestinian terrorists from eastern Jerusalem while he was riding on a public bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood three weeks ago, Richard (who later died) became a viral hit on social media, though hardly in a positive way. Read more
New Zealand on show at Twickenham…and the United Nations
November 6, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
As far as New Zealanders and many Australians are concerned the rugby world cup competition every four years is the most looked forward to event on the sporting calendar…writes Michael Kuttner Read more
Teaching the old new tricks
November 5, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Residents at Melbourne’s Emmy Monash residents have participated in an iPad Masterclass. Read more
Security Council Permanent Members Herald Armed Action Against Islamic State
November 4, 2015 by David Singer
An international conference in Vienna on 30 October – attended by all five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council – America, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom – has made an important breakthrough towards defeating Islamic State and ending the conflict in Syria and Iraq…writes David Singer. Read more
Monte awards
November 4, 2015 by Natalie Shymko
Sydney’s Montefiore Homes’ 2015 Spirit of Volunteering recognition function has been held at both the Randwick and Hunters Hill locations. Read more
Newt’s News
November 3, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
The Shtick’s Henry Greener presents Newt’s News…a video roundup of current events. Read more
It’s official: BDS is hate speech
November 3, 2015 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
A few years ago, the British antisemitism scholar David Hirsh remarked that while Israel was the ostensible target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, first in the firing line were diaspora Jews…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more
Is hypnosis kosher?…ask the rabbi
November 2, 2015 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple served for 32 years as the chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia’s oldest and most prestigious congregation. He was Australia’s highest profile rabbi and held many public roles…and answers your questions. Read more
Putin’s Russia and Israel: A tenuous relationship…writes Isi Leibler
November 1, 2015 by Isi Leibler
For over 30 years, my principal public occupation in the global Jewish arena was to promote the struggle for liberation of Soviet Jewry. Read more
The Lone Ranger rides again
October 30, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
Most probably only those of a certain vintage will remember the exploits of the Lone Ranger and his faithful sidekick. Read more
Palestine – Peres Trashes Rabin’s Oslo Accords Vision
October 29, 2015 by David Singer
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has pre-empted the memorial rally this Saturday evening to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the assassination on 4 November 1995 of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin – by writing – quite misleadingly – of Rabin’s vision in the Jerusalem Post this week…writes David Singer. Read more
Teaching in Israel
October 29, 2015 by Hayley Hadassin
Gabby Oberman, a graduate of Bialik College in Melbourne was 23 when she embarked on a Masa Teaching Fellowship (MITF) in Netanya, Israel. Read more
A system’s view of the Arab-Israeli conflict
October 29, 2015 by Ron Jontof-Hutter
General system theory is the science of “wholeness” whereby the system is viewed as a complex of interacting elements…writes Ron Jontof-Hutter. Read more
