Palestine Mandate Legally Triumphs Over Discredited PLO Charter…writes David Singer

The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – and international law – have finally emerged as triumphant victors over the 1964 PLO Charter following the collapse of 50 years of failed attempts by the PLO to arbitrarily void the vote of the 51 members of the League of Nations unanimously endorsing the legal right of the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in 23% of former Palestine. Read more

Yoghurt is Not Just For Yogis…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf

So we are told that 66.5% of our illnesses, habits, and personality traits are genetically designed. So what chance do we have? Read more

Will you notice me if I’m not a failure?…asks Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

Over the past few decades we have become experts in responding to the problems of society through crisis management and intervention. We now have excellent programs focusing on substance abuse, kids on the street, homelessness, domestic violence, difficult teenagers and many other problems facing our world. Read more

On peace and Palestinian unity…writes Emily Gian

Some weeks ago I wrote about the peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which had then been meandering along with little progress for eight months.  Read more

Art kept Holocaust victims alive

World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer has noted the importance of the arts to the persecuted Jews in Nazi Europe. “The will to make art kept alive for a few more days countless Jews imprisoned in ghettos and camps,” Singer said. “The art that Jews made lifted the spirits of those who heard the music of ghetto orchestras or saw a drawing scratched out in charcoal on a barracks’ wall. It was the finest kind of spiritual resistance.” Read more

From ‘Star Trek’ to one-man show, William Shatner stays in the limelight…writes Robert Gluck

What is it like to be William Shatner, the Jewish actor best known for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk on “Star Trek? Read more

Proposed PA – Hamas Union Based on Common Objectives

The timing of the PA intention to merge with Hamas may have caught many by surprise. But it was evident that Israel would not reach understandings with a Palestinian Authority headed by the intransigent Mahmoud Abbas, who refused to make a single compromise. In fact, even when the US pressured Israel into making unilateral concessions as a prerequisite to merely agreeing to negotiate, the response from Abbas was to raise new demands. Read more

Why it’s important to have your say on proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act… writes Vic Alhadeff

Australians who care about the social cohesion of our society have until Wednesday to make our voices heard before the deadline for submissions on the proposal to amend section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read more

Yom HaShoah – First Cousins and Fifth Cousins…writes David Werdiger

Imagine a huge tree, with a trunk so wide you cannot reach around it, an extensive root system, and a magnificent and full canopy. It sits majestically in the middle of a huge park, where despite the vagaries of the seasons, it has stood firm and grown for hundreds of years. Read more

Running for cancer research

Melbourne basketball team the Maccabi Warriors have raised over $1000 for the Cancer Council of Victoria. Read more

Easy ways to improve your conversation…suggested by Odile Faludi

In February we discussed the power of quality conversation.  No, I don’t mean texting, emailing or Facebooking. I actually mean picking up the phone and starting a conversation with someone who you would like to get to know better. If you missed that article here it is. Read more

Kerry on regardless…writes Michael Kuttner

Do you remember those old “carry on” films which were so popular many years ago?  Those British produced comedies exemplified everything that was outrageous yet not quite unbelievable in depicting the mad side of life. Read more

It’s time for the gloves to come off… writes Gil Solomon

The Obama so called “peace talks” are falling in a heap due to three main issues. Read more

Transcendence…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov has a lot to answer for. More than half a century ago his super-bright robots posed the question of where to draw the line between man and machine. Transcendence is Hollywood’s latest answer. Read more

 Incentives for Murdering Jews…writes Isi Leibler

It is a damning reflection on the civilized world that one rarely hears a word of condemnation of the criminal Palestinian society in which the murder of Jews is not only considered laudable, but has today effectively become a vehicle towards achieving upward social mobility, both socially and financially. Read more

Whose peace is it anyway?…asks Yosef Livne

The news about the agreement reached by the Fatah movement and Hamas adds a new obstacle in the already complex situation of the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Palestine – Abbas Unilaterally Resurrects Palestinian Authority…writes David Singer

Easter 2014 will be remembered as the time when PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tried to resurrect the Palestinian Authority (PA) that he himself had declared dead and buried on 3 January 2013. Read more

Dayenu – Enough Already…writes Michael Kuttner

One of the amazing characteristics inherent in the Israeli approach to life is the refusal to be cowed by threats, implied or overt, and to live life to the full at every opportunity. Read more

Jewish Leaders Down Under not intimidated…writes Isi Leibler

Former Australian Labor Party Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has released a 500 page book titled “Diary of a Foreign Minister” depicting his activities in office from March 2012 to September 2013. It includes a vicious attack on the Jewish communal leadership, charging it with disproportionate influence on government. The criticism is reminiscent of the notorious Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer book on the Jewish lobby in America. Read more

Why is this bite different from all other bites?…asks Tami Sussman

If the thought of giving up bread, pasta, muesli and Tim Tams for a bit over a week makes you want to pluck your eyebrows off, then have no fear – you are experiencing a normal response to an anticipatory thought of Passover. Read more

Carr Sickness…writes Jack Chrapot

Tonight, we sit down to read about the liberation of the Jews from slavery back in the days of the Pharaohs. When we finally get through the part about our deliverance from Egypt, we eat because after all, who can reflect about this long history of overcoming evil and nasty tyrants on an empty stomach? Read more

Overprotective or loving? Daughters reflect on Jewish mothers in new anthology

Rachel Ament noticed that she and her friends often shared humorous anecdotes that were typically variations on a theme: overprotective, worrying Jewish mothers who smothered them with love. Read more

Palestine – Historical Amnesia Causes Kerry’s Downfall…writes David Singer

John Kerry was well on the way to becoming another impotent and failed Secretary of State in November last year – as predicted in my article “Palestine – Kerry Destined For Political Scrapheap”: Read more

Like Father, Like Son…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Are the ties of blood stronger than that of parental love?  A heartbreaking dilemma explores the bonds that define a family in modern Japan. Read more

Harvard students make time for Arafat, but not for Harvard terror victims…writes Stephen Flatow

The controversy over the Harvard University students who recently posed, smiling, at Yasser Arafat’s grave sent a shot of pain through every one of us who has lost a loved one in the terrorist attacks that Arafat and his allies have waged over the years. Read more

Yom HaZikaron: Israeli families discuss what it means to lose a soldier, a son, a sibling

Some 22,000 Israeli soldiers have died since the establishment of the Jewish state, including 40 soldiers between March 2013 and March 2014, according to the Israel Defense Forces…writes Maayan Jaffe. Read more

My unpleasant evening with ‘Breaking the Silence’…writes Hen Mazzig

I recently attended a disturbing lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was co-sponsored by St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and J Street U. The speaker, a former Israeli soldier with the group “Breaking the Silence” (BtS), misrepresented and demonized the Israel Defense Forces, Israel, and Israeli policy. Read more

Fire and Ice…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

In the Pesach Hagadah  we read the story of the ten plagues that punished the Egyptians. Read more

In every generation…writes Michael Kuttner

Once again as we have done since the Exodus of our ancestors from Egypt, Jews worldwide will be sitting down together with family and friends to recount the dramas associated with that history making event so long ago. Read more

Paula Abdul, Nefesh Shul and the Building of a Dream…writes Deb Meyer

I’m writing this on a plane to Israel, reflecting on the recent interview I had with Ritchie and Nechama Dina Moss – the Rabbi and Rebbetzin of Nefesh shul in Bondi, from the quiet recess of their home, normally a buzzing hub filled with 7 children aged 10 and under, with another due any day. An apt metaphor, as life for this busy couple is soaring to great heights. Read more

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