Palestine – Obama Gives Up On Bush’s Two-State Solution…writes 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

The world is experiencing a clash of civilizations with satanic forces seeking to revert to the Dark Ages…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

European court finds France’s ban on Dieudonne lawful

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has hailed Tuesday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights against the antisemitic French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala as a ‘milestone’ in the fight against hate speech, antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Read more

Boris scores a goal

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin this afternoon joined with Mayor of London Boris Johnson, in kicking off the new ‘Equaliser’ organisation soccer season in Jerusalem. Read more

Netanyahu to Jewish Federations: U.S., Israel ‘should work together now’ on Iran

Despite their disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel “can and should work together now” to ensure that Iran complies with the agreement and to curb Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) in Washington, DC. Read more

Amnesty International’s New Zealand director against peace resolution

Amnesty International has criticised New Zealand’s recently proposed resolution to the U.N. Security Council which calls for the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) as well as halting the Palestinian campaign to bring Israel to trial at the International Criminal Court. Read more

He Named Me Malala – a movie review 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.

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Anti-Zionism is Racism…writes Ben Cohen

This week marks the 40th anniversary of one of the worst instances of antisemitism since the end of the Second World War. Read more

Defence lawyer under fire

Experienced Melbourne criminal defence lawyer, Alex Lewenberg, is under investigation by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) into comments he made to a victim of child sexual abuse according to a report in The Herald Sun. Read more

Meet Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

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

The Prime Minister and the President

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with U.S. President Barak Obama in the The White House in Washington. Here is what they had to say… Read more

Acknowledge a donor? Ask the rabbi

Is there any issue with a school bearing the name of its donor? Rabbi Raymond Apple answers the question. Read more

Kristallnacht Commemoration

Representatives from many communal and religious organisations, including the Consul-Generals of Austria, Germany and Greece gathered at the Sydney Jewish Museum for the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies’ (NSWJBD) annual Kristallnacht Commemoration.

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Come sing with me

Australian jazz singer Emma Pask who featured with the John Morrison Swing City Band yesterday at Sydney’s Montefiore Home Jazz in the Grounds concert was discovered as a schoolgirl singer by James Morrison. Yesterday she “discovered” another student this time from Moriah College. Read more

Britain’s Chief rabbi knew of the Holocaust

Rabbi Ben Elton has told the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women that Britain’s rabbonim were aware of the tragic murder of Europe’s Jews during WWII but were unable to help stop the slaughter. Read more

Fairfax Media – spiralling into the blame game

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

Yitzhak Navon passes away

Israel’s fifth president Yitzhak Navon has passed away at the age of 94. Read more

Taking a gamble

In recent weeks there has been a minor media frenzy surrounding Australian media and business mogul James Packer who has purchased a home in Israel and spends quite a bit of time there. Read more

Saving American lives

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

Reader’s letter: Israel’s “transparency law”

This week many people asked me what really bothers me about the proposed “transparency law” promoted by the Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked. Read more

A final resting place

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has become the final resting place for the memories of parents, grandparents and siblings of Australian Jewish families whose family members perished in the Holocaust. Read more

Racial discrimination law under the microscope

Former president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies David Knoll has spoken at a conference convened by the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) and the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW (ECC NSW) on  “40 Years of the Racial Discrimination Act. Are We Still Protected?”. Read more

Sydney remembers Rabin

Over 200 people have joined together to honour the life and memory of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was assassinated 20 years ago at a Peace Rally in Tel Aviv. Read more

What’s Facebook’s status on Palestinian incitement against Israelis?

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

The Spirit of Poland

On this weekend’s Radio National’s “The Spirit of Things”, Rachael Kohn talks to filmmaker Judy Menczel, Klezmer singer Fay Sussman and Warsaw Jewish museum curator Dr Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Read more

New Zealand on show at Twickenham…and the United Nations

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

Generations of Women brunch

Jewish Care Victoria has hosted its Annual Generations of Women Brunch. Read more

Mitzvah Day: One week to go

As part of the world wide Mitzvah Day initiative, Melbourne’s Emmy Monash together with partner organisations, Central Shule Chabad,  Mount Scopus College (SFPS) and other volunteer members within the Jewish Community are planning a special community event honouring the Mitzvah Day motto “doing good deeds to meet  community needs”. Read more

Teaching the old new tricks

Residents at Melbourne’s Emmy Monash residents have participated in an iPad Masterclass. Read more

Golden Circle no longer guaranteed kosher claim not ratified

Kosher Australia says Australia’s most popular range of fruit juices and canned fruits will disappear from Kosher food shelves…ut the company says no decision has been made to stop Kosher certification. Read more

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