Rockin’ Ra’anana with the Backstreet Boys – or – eat your heart out Roger Waters…writes Ted Lapkin
May 30, 2015 by Ted Lapkin
The Illinois General Assembly made history last week by passing legislation that would prohibit the state’s pension fund from investing in companies that participate in the anti-Israel boycott. Read more
20 years of Russian television…in Melbourne
May 30, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Melbourne=based Sputnik Russian Cultural and Television Association will celebrate its 20th anniversary on television with a gala concert featuring world-class musicians at St Kilda Town Hall at the end of June. Read more
Offside Yet Again…writes Michael Kuttner
May 29, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
The latest attempts to boycott, delegitimize and shun Israel are now playing out in the corridors of FIFA. Read more
Palestine – Netanyahu Goes For Gold In Shoot-Off With Obama…writes David Singer
May 29, 2015 by David Singer
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s appointment of former United Nations ambassador Dore Gold to head up Israel’s Foreign Ministry – ensures that Israel will be confronting President Obama as he continues attempting to deviate from the commitments made to Israel by his predecessor President Bush in a letter dated 14 April to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (Bush Commitments). Read more
I Gave a Gonski…selected speeches by David Gonski. A book review by Alan Gold
In his chapter on ‘Being a Chairman’, David Gonski says it’s easier to define a non-executive chairman by what he’s not, rather than by what he or she is. Which made me think of what the American astronomer, Clifford Stoll once said the internet age, “Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
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Don’t be an angel…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
May 29, 2015 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
There are different ways that parents praise their children when they are being really good. One compliment I often hear parents give is: “you are such an angel.” Read more
NSW Carer of the Year nominations
May 29, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Coogee MP Bruce Notley-Smith and Vaucluse MP Gabrielle Upton have called for nominations for the NSW Carers Awards 2015 and asked the local community to nominate outstanding unpaid carers and carer-friendly organisations carers they know. Read more
Politicians: Get your act together…writes Isi Leibler
May 27, 2015 by Isi Leibler
Every time we feel that our dysfunctional political system and its political leaders have descended to an all-time low, we wake up the next morning to learn of additional shenanigans and irresponsible behavior by those we elected to represent us. Read more
Henry Greener interviews Gary Peer
May 27, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Melbourne real estate icon Gary Peer is interviewed by the Shtick’s Henry Greener about his background, success and expansion as the housing market bubble inflates to breaking point…!!!? A video presentation. Read more
Why the Palestinians’ gun culture should concern us
May 27, 2015 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
Another Palestinian teenager was shot to death last weekend…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org. Read more
Bringing them home to make music…writes Fraser Beath McEwing
May 27, 2015 by Fraser Beath McEwing
On Tuesday 23rd of July, at five o’clock in the afternoon, ninety-five of the finest Australian orchestral musicians in the world will file in through the side doors of the Sydney Opera House concert hall stage. Read more
Why don’t we modernise the prayer book?..ask the rabbi
May 26, 2015 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Q. Why don’t we modernise the prayerbook? Read more
Learning together
May 22, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Around 750 parents, grandparents, and children have participated together in a learning session at Sydney’s Kesser Torah College ahead of Shavuot. Read more
When the Saints go Marching in…writes Michael Kuttner
May 22, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
Most Israelis have by now become used to the spectacle of the rest of the world trying to order us around and offering gratuitous advice. Read more
Turning Milk into Cheese
May 22, 2015 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
Apparently one of the reasons we eat milk products on Shavuot is that the Torah (which we received on Shavuot) is compared to milk and honey. So what is the big fuss with the cheesecake? Wouldn’t a glass of milk be enough or is there something specific about the cheese? Read more
Avan Yu fulfilling his promise…a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
May 22, 2015 by Fraser Beath McEwing
While winning piano competitions can seem like an end in itself, it is more often the beginning of a career as a professional soloist. Read more
Ravit Gabai talks to Henry Greener about Shavuot
May 22, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Ravit Gabai at Hilulim talks with Henry Greener about Shavuot, the jewish harvest festival, what it means to her and the kabbalistic aspects of the festival, including eating cheesecake ! Ending with a song from Ofra Haza filmed at Eurovision Song Festival…a video report. Read more
Palestine – Pope Forfeits Spiritual And Moral Authority…writes David Singer
May 21, 2015 by David Singer
Pope Francis has suffered a serious blow to his spiritual and moral authority following the Vatican’s recognition of the “State of Palestine” in a new treaty announced on 13 May. Read more
Jerusalem: not just an idea
May 20, 2015 by Danny Danon
With another Jerusalem Day (May 17) passing us by, we are once again witnesses to the usual platitudes from our leaders…writes Danny Danon/JNS.org. Read more
Rename Melbourne Ports to Monash
May 20, 2015 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Kate Ashmor tells Henry Greener about her many shticks, including being a self-employed Lawyer, recently appointed Chairman of Bendigo Bank Caulfield Park Community Branch, being a Councillor at Glen Eira Council and recently starting a petition to rename the Federal Electorate of “Melbourne Ports” to “Monash”, in honour of arguably the greatest Australian ever !…a J-Wire video report Read more
How the East (of Jerusalem) Was Won…writes Ted Lapkin
May 20, 2015 by Ted Lapkin
Forty eight years ago, the squawk of an incoming radio transmission echoed through the war room at IDF Central Command. Read more
Adam Exx Exodus…a book review by Alan Gold
May 20, 2015 by Alan Gold
There is a class of books being published these days which are best described as ‘metabooks’. Read more
Maccabeats return to Melbourne
The popular Maccabeats, an a Capella group from Yeshivah University in New York, will return to Melbourne next month for their “return down under” concert. Read more
Yom Yerushalayim trivia night
May 19, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Over 120 trivia buffs and Jerusalem lovers participated in the Zionist Council of Victoria’s Yom Yerushalayim Trivia Night. Read more
At 80, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen’s Jewish roots ‘very much intact’
May 19, 2015 by Robert Gluck
Eighty years young, Leonard Cohen fits many descriptions—singer, songwriter, poet, novelist, monk. From his Jewish upbringing in Canada to the present day, Cohen has always explored his spiritual side…writes Robert Gluck/JNS.org. Read more
Meet the new neighborhood terrorists in Gaza
May 19, 2015 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
As Islamic terrorist organisations throughout the Middle East sink to new levels of brutality, the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis and launched thousands of rockets at the Jewish state, finds itself facing a threat to its rule in Gaza. Read more
Curbing the self-loathing Jewish defamers of Israel
May 19, 2015 by Isi Leibler
Most of us are thoroughly exasperated with the obnoxious Jewish deviants who are demonizing Israel with their global campaigns, falsely defaming the IDF as monsters and war criminals…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
A Byrd in the hand
May 19, 2015 by Fraser Beath McEwing
A Byrd in the hand…and much more, as pianist Peter Serkin ranged over five centuries to source music for his concert in Sydney’s City Recital Hall last night, writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more
Jewish Care app
May 19, 2015 by Ayal Tusia
A new mobile app launched by Melbourne’s Jewish Care aims to give users a quick and easy way to connect with the organisation while providing many useful features. Read more
Seeking an old friend
Were you in Kibbutz Shomrat in the summer of 1970? Read more
