Fly me to the moon

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, has hosted members of the SpaceIL venture at his residence in Jerusalem. Read more

Germany, refugees and the Holocaust

The Deputy Leader of the NSW Opposition Walt Secord has visited Germany and witnessed first-hand the refugee processing…saying that Germany cannot be callous because of the Holocaust. Read more

Aussie soccer star playing in Israel

Australian international striker Nikita Rukavytsya  has signed and is now playing with the Beitar Jerusalem Soccer Club. Read more

Racial vilification on the NSWJBD plenum agenda

NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton MP will discuss ’Racial vilification’ and the options for legislative reform when she addresses this month’s NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum.  Read more

Fruit of the poisoned Big Apple tree

So it was same’ ol – same ol’ last week at Turtle Bay in the Big Apple, that site along the banks of New York City’s East River where the United Nations headquarters is located…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

New leadership for AUJS

Michael Fisher, a commerce/law student at Melbourne’s Monash University, and the AUJS National Treasurer in 2015, has been elected as National Chairperson for 2016. Read more

Palestine – United Nations Bedazzled By Abbas Word Wizardry

PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week contained a concoction of half-truths and outright lies that everyone listening to him should question…writes David Singer. Read more

Two die in Jerusalem terrorist attack

At around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday evening (October 3, 2015), a knife-wielding Arab attacked Aharon Bennett, his wife, their 2-year-old son and infant who were on their way to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Read more

They seek them here…they seek them everywhere

Traveling in a motor home armed with Jewish gear, Rabbi Yossi and Malki Rodal make their way around the Australian outback in search of Jews. Read more

ECAJ appalled by Sydney shooting

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has expressed its dismay at yesterday’s fatal shooting of a police employee in a killing described by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as an act of terrorism. Read more

Play better bridge with Ron Klinger: Another Diamond Debacle

This week’s bridge column from one of the game’s masters. Read more

Jews, Islamophobia and compassion for refugees

It would be inhumane not to react with compassion to the tragic and harrowing depictions of the suffering of refugees…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

South Africa’s chief rabbi counters dual citizenship proposal

Anti-Zionists are targeting South Africa, but hold tight and wait and see what happens regarding reports of an impending dual citizenship crisis that may affect his country’s Jewish community says South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas has a nightmare vision

In November 1974, the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat addressed the entire world from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

JewishCare launches Mental Health Month

Sydney’s JewishCare’s Mental Health and Wellbeing program has helped launch Mental Health Month with two functions held at its Bondi Junction headquarters. Read more

Melbourne’s Lord Mayor visits city Sukkah

For the tenth successive year, Chabad of Melbourne CBD, led by Shaliach Rabbi Chaim Herzog, celebrated the festival of Sukkot by erecting a Sukkah in the centre of the City of Melbourne. Read more

The Shabbat Project in Sydney

Last year, more than 15,000 members of Sydney’s Jewish community participated in The Shabbat Project…plans for 2015 have now been finalised. Read more

Abbas denounced

B’nai Brith International and Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) have  denounced Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ disavowal of signed peace agreements with Israel in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. Read more

Tal Brody to join in Maccabi celebrations

Israeli basketball legend Tal Brody will be guest of honour at next month’s Maccabi Australia 90th anniversary celebrations. Read more

Pilgrims’ Progress

We are in the midst of Succoth commonly known in English as the Feast of Tabernacles…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

WJC praises Netanyahu’s call for resumption of peace negotiations

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) today hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu’s call at the United Nations for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table and lauded Netanyahu’s remarks that Israel and Arab states are cooperating against radical Islam. Read more

Iran: The best intentions don’t prevent the worst outcomes.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken at the United Nations General Assembly. His address in full… Read more

A survivor’s story told in art

Thea Weiss will exhibit works of art in Wellington, New Zealand next month telling the stories of her mother-in-law Lotte’s two lives…one in Auschwitz and the other in New Zealand and Australia. Read more

A map for Julie

Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has prepared a special map for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to explain where Daesh and Assad are, and the difference between Daesh and the real opponents of Syria and Iran on the battlefield in the northern and southern parts of western Syria. Read more

Palestinian flag flies at United Nations for the first time

The Palestinian flag was raised at United Nations headquarters for the first time on Wednesday afternoon in New York City, accompanying Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the world body on the same day. Read more

Nazi insignia on sale in Victoria

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has condemned the sale of new Nazi armbands, emblazoned with the Nazi swastika, at a family market in the Victorian town of Ballarat. Read more

Syrian sinkhole swallowing Obama and Putin’s credibility and political judgement

President Obama’s continuing focus on removing Syria’s President Assad to secure America’s co-operation with Russia to destroy Islamic State – whilst President Putin has now independently commenced Russian air strikes in Syria – supposedly on Islamic State forces – exposes both leaders lack of credibility and political judgement…writes David Singer. Read more

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