Clean Up the Kinneret

The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) together with the Australian Embassy in Israel, The Kinneret Authority and KKL-JNF joined together to Clean Up Israel. Read more

Limmud FSU is key to bridging Australia’s Jewish and Russian-speaking Jewish Communities

Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection Zeev Elkin told Limmud FSU Australia that the organisation is playing a critical role in connecting the Russian-speaking Jewish community to the larger Australian Jewish community  at the first-ever Limmud FSU Australia festival in Sydney this past weekend. Read more

Jewish Agency’s future in question with Sharansky’s departure…writes Sam Sokol/JNS.org

Announcing his pending retirement during an interview last week, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s outgoing two-term Chairman Natan Sharansky said the venerable Zionist institution needed “new people and new ideas,” igniting speculation on the identity of a possible successor. Read more

Unsocial media…writes Emily Gian

A little while ago, I embarked upon some research on social media, and in particular the issue of how Israel is represented there. Read more

Danby speaks at the Jerusalem Press Club

Michael Danby the Federal Member for Melbourne Ports has been hosted by NGO Monitor at the Jerusalem Press Club. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah prelude

Three major themes punctuate our Holyday services – penitence, prayer and charity….writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

Peres update

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Tax treaty under negotiation between Australia and Israel

Stimulating growth, rather than increasing taxes, is the solution to the budget deficit, said the Federal Treasurer in a public address in Melbourne on Friday. Read more

Walt Secord send his message for Rosh Hashanah

Walt Secord, the deputy leader of the Opposition in the NSW Legislative Council and the deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel,  has a message for Rosh Hashanah. Read more

NSW Minister for Multiculturalism sends Rosh Hashanah greetings

John Ajaka sends New Year greetings to the Australian Jewish community. Read more

Double think…writes Michael Kuttner

 

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.”… Read more

Shana Tova from JIFF!

Shana Tova Umetukah from the team at the Jewish International Film Festival. Read more

Palestinian ethnic cleansing mob attacks two Jewish women

Talk about bad timing for the Palestinian PR machine…writes Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org. Read more

Bishop meets Leibler

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The ECAJ and the Hanson speech

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has responded to Senator Pauline Hanson’s inaugural speech in parliament on Wednesday in which she called for the introduction of restrictive measures against Australian Muslims, and barring entry to Australia of anyone professing the Muslim faith.
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We all condemn settlements and yet they continue to expand…NZ Foreign Minister

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister has told the UN Security Council the two-state policy is tottering. Read more

Shame on the ADL…writes Isi Leibler

Irrespective of one’s personal opinion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s videotaped remarks on Palestinian “ethnic cleansing” of Jews from any future Palestinian state, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s scornful public condemnation is simply beyond the pale. Read more

It’s not the blowing…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

We are just over two weeks away from Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of a new year.   Read more

Does the U.S.-Israel military aid deal put to rest years of strained relations under Obama?

The United States and Israel made history on Thursday signing the largest ever military assistance package between the two allies…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org. Read more

Are the West Bank settlements illegal?…asks Ian Lacey

One of the original elements of the continuing “lawfare” against Israel , which is still resurfacing , is the assertion that the settlements are “illegal”. Read more

Peres update

Prof. Yitzhak Kreis, Director General of the Sheba Medical Center and Rafi Walden, Peres’ son in law and personal physician, regarding the condition of the Ninth President this morning.
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Israel to host first-ever international PTSD conference

A major International conference focused on the diagnosis and management of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related conditions will be held in Jerusalem next year. Read more

MP’s maiden speech tells of his father’s suicide

The first Jewish Liberal from NSW to be elected to the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal parliament has used his maiden speech to highlight suicides caused by depression citing his own father’s death. Read more

United Nations Rebuked For Promoting Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing Of Jews

United Nations member States need to examine their own consciences and policies following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu castigating them for promoting a Jew-free Palestinian Arab State in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and East Jerusalem…writes David Singer. Read more

Stoush over eruv erupts

Residents of St Ives, a Sydney suburb, are being asked to oppose the Eruv which has been in existence for about 18 months.

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75 Years after Babi Yar – A year of Commemoration

Over 110,000 people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators at Babi Yar near Kiev in the Ukraine in 1941…the 75^th anniversary of the worst of these massacres when 33,771 Jews were murdered on just two days, 29^th and 30^th September 1941, will be commemorated at a ceremony to be held at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre. Read more

Ancient city unearthed where David and Goliath battled

Archaeologists believe they have found evidence of King David’s footprints in a mysterious two-gated city from 3,000 years ago, mentioned in the Bible’s story of David and Goliath…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org. Read more

Europe’s “Most Notorious Jew-Baiter:” It’s a Tie!

Jew-baiting these days is a globally competitive field. The Middle East, Latin America and Asia could all put up credible candidates for the title of most notorious Jew-baiter…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Israel is not isolated Netanyahu tells WJC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a delegation of World Jewish Congress (WJC) leaders that despite the perception that Israel is isolated, there had been a dramatic expansion of relations with countries recently, including in the Arab world, something that would have been inconceivable just five years ago. Read more

Shimon Peres suffers major stroke

Ninth president of Israel Shimon Peres is in intensive care at the Tel Hashomer hospital in Ramat Gan following a major stroke. Read more

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