Israel Chief Rabbi slammed for calling Russian immigrants ‘non-Jews,’ ‘enemies of religion’
January 8, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef came under harsh criticism after he recently blamed immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who are not Jewish, for the weakening electoral power of the ultra-Orthodox parties. Read more
Israeli arms-control expert Emily Landau dies at age 59
Top Israeli arms-control expert Emily Landau died after a long illness on Monday at the age of 59, announced the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies think tank, where she was a senior research fellow and the head of its Arms Control and Regional Security Program. Read more
JCCV pledges its support and call for donations
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria stands in solidarity with all Victorians affected by the devastating bushfires across our state and nation. Read more
Rabbi Brian Fox AM
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Rabbi Brian D Fox has passed away in Sydney at the age of 76. Read more
Memories of his bushfire firefighter father
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In 1968, David Eley was three years old when his father lost his life battling bushfires. Now he is the chef at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen supervising the food being prepared for today’s firefighters. Read more
Survey: Most Israelis believe their government is corrupt
January 8, 2020 by JNS
According to the Israel Democracy Institute’s annual survey, which was presented to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, the majority of Israelis believe their leadership is corrupt. Read more
Melbourne community rallies
January 8, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Jewish community rallies to help bushfires victims
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The president of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Jillian Segal reports on the Australian Jewish community’s efforts to raise funds to assist those whose lives have been affected by the bushfires. Read more
US embassy warns of rocket fire on Israel
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday issued a security alert following “heightened Middle East tensions” in which it warned about “security incidents, including rocket fire” on Israel. Read more
Did Israeli archeologists uncover Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old market on the Pilgrimage Road?
January 7, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israeli archeologists have recently exposed the top of a rare 2,000-year-old measuring table used for liquid items such as wine and olive oil, lending support to the idea that the area at which it was found was a major town square along the Pilgrimage Road. Read more
Leading Israeli think tank warns of potential war with Iran
January 7, 2020 by Arye Green -TPS
Israel’s security is currently challenged on multiple fronts, and the government’s present policy could lead to a large-scale war in the region if it is not updated in the near future, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said in its annual report on Monday. Read more
Assassination of Soleimani: AIJAC cautiously optimistic
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has reacted with cautious optimism to the killing by US forces of Iranian arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Read more
New Sydney-funded mathematics centre in the Negev
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney couple Simona and Leon Kamenev have launched a mathematics centre in the Negev in their name. Read more
Jerusalem zoo calls for financial support for bushfires wildlife
January 7, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is to purchase veterinary medical supplies for the Animal Rescue Collective for use in the East Gippsland region in Victoria according to its Facebook page. Read more
25,000 people march against hate and fear in New York, saying ‘you’ve got to speak up’
Thousands of marchers assembled in Manhattan Sunday morning, taking to the streets and flooding the Brooklyn Bridge for hours as they crossed into the borough of Brooklyn amid chants of “No Hate, No Fear,” the theme of the assembly in the works for days now. Read more
Rebecca and Josh honoured at WUJS congress in Jerusalem
January 6, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Iran withdraws from nuclear deal, plans to enrich uranium ‘without restrictions’
January 6, 2020 by JNS
Iran announced on Sunday that it will enrich uranium “without restrictions” in what would be an apparent move to withdraw from the 2015 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. Read more
Thousands rally in France calling for justice for slain Jewish woman
Thousands of French Jews and others rallied on Sunday throughout the country, including Paris, calling for justice for slain Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old retired physician. Read more
Trump threatens to hit 52 ‘important’ Iranian targets if Tehran retaliates
January 6, 2020 by JNS
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States is targeting 52 “important” Iranian sites, representing the 52 U.S. hostages held hostage in Iran for 444 days in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and will strike “very fast and very hard” if Tehran attacks the United States or its assets. Read more
Two drown in a lift in Tel Aviv flood
January 5, 2020 by TPS-IL
A couple in the 20s drowned on Saturday when torrential rains in Tel Aviv flooded the elevator they were in. Read more
Netanyahu lauds elimination of Soleimani by US forces
January 4, 2020 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the elimination on Thursday of the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by the United States. Read more
Success for Netanyahu? High Court blocks petition to disqualify him from forming govt.
January 3, 2020 by Benjamin Brown - TPS
Benjamin Netanyahu has been dealt a potential win by Israel’s High Court in the run-up to the March 2nd elections when it rejected a petition that sought clarification as to whether the Prime Minister would be able to be given the mandate to form a government, should he be successful in the coming elections. Read more
A home devastated by the bushfires
January 3, 2020 by Henry Benjamin
On what appeared to be a normal day, Cecily and Roger Parris left their home in Conjola Park in the South Coast of NSW on New Year’s Eve morning to visit the hairdresser in nearby Milton but their return to home was blocked as a ferocious fire had swept through their township destroying their house. Read more
Gazan man reunited with Jewish mother in Israel after 30 years
January 3, 2020 by Benjamin Brown - TPS
A 30-year-old resident of Gaza has been reunited with his Jewish mother after being abducted and taken to Gaza by his Arab father three decades ago. Read more
IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani killed in US airstrike
January 3, 2020 by Jackson Richman - JNS
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defence announced. Read more
Israel, Greece and Cyprus sign agreement for $7 billion EastMed gas pipeline
January 3, 2020 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades have met in Athens in a seventh trilateral at which an agreement was signed for the $7 billion, 1,180-mile EastMed gas pipeline that will run from Israel through Cyprus and Greece to Europe. Read more
Litzman: Hadassah Australia adds its voice
January 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Directors of Hadassah Australia have given their strong support to the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler who wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning the appointment of United Torah Judaism’s Yaakov Litzman MK, to the position of Health Minister in Israel. Read more
Tens of thousands of Jews worldwide ‘on the same page,’ celebrating 13th ‘Siyum HaShas’
January 3, 2020 by Dov Lipman - JNS
Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined together on Jan. 1 to celebrate the 13th Siyum HaShas—“the completion of the Six Orders [of the Talmud]”—the culmination of a seven-and-a-half-year study cycle in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud’s 63 tractates are learned in sequence. Read more
Not SOS, use RARA
January 3, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Family lose their home in the South Coast fires
January 2, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Cecily and Roger Parris have lost their home and all its contents in the devastating fire that tore through Conjola Park this week.
