The Laden Table
The independent theatre company known for taking daring risks, Sydney’s bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company, will kick off their 2017 season with a powerful world-premiere, The Laden Table, written and developed by a collective of Jewish, Muslim and Christian women in response to ‘dinner table racism’. Read more
Tim Wilson slams UN resolution 2334
March 2, 2017 by J-Wire News Service
Liberal MP Tim Wilson spoke in federal parliament in an adjournment debate on cultural genocide…focusing on the 1915 Armenian genocide and last December’s United Nations resolution 2334 denying Jewish historic rights to East Jerusalem and the disputed territories. Read more
Israeli Citizen Linked to Islamic State Arrested and Charged
March 2, 2017 by Agencies
The Israel Security Agency (ISA), in cooperation with the Israel Police has arrested an Israeli citizen following receipt of intelligence information that he had tried recently to go to Syria in order to join the fighting as a member of Islamic State. Read more
The Russian boys get together: a music review
March 2, 2017 by Fraser Beath McEwing
The APT Master Series opened its SSO 2017 season at the Sydney Opera House with a cleverly conceived and superbly executed concert dominated by Russians…writes Fraser Beath McEwing. Read more
Edwin Black talks aboutn the two state solution
March 2, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Edwin Black is an American author of 11 books and investigative journalist visited Australia. Read more
Meet Joel Burnie: a Henry Greener interview
March 2, 2017 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
AIJAC’s Joel Burnie has a political pedigree going back to his student days. A video interview. Read more
Shul in dire straits
March 1, 2017 by Sophie Deutsch
Sydney’s South Head Synagogue is in the throes of a financial crisis, and its congregants and board members are questioning the suitability of head Rabbi Benzion Milecki. Read more
Eyeless in Gaza Online Launch
March 1, 2017 by Roz Tarszisz
Producer Robert Magid recently returned to Australia from showing his film Eyeless in Gaza in Los Angeles and New York before its official Australian launch this month.
The Jewish people should be able to determine their own future…writes Ron Weiser
March 1, 2017 by Ron Weiser
This year we will celebrate the 120th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress which took place in Basel in 1897 to consider Theodore Herzl’s plans to guide the re-establishment of the Jewish State. The third Jewish Commonwealth. Read more
New Chairman for AIJAC in NSW
March 1, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has named Paul Rubenstein as its new NSW Chairman. Read more
Community welcomes recommendation to no change decision to 18C
March 1, 2017 by J-Wire Staff
Community organisations have welcomed the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights decision to make no change to 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act whose critics want changes. Read more
Israel carries out evictions in Ofra settlement
March 1, 2017 by Agencies
Some 100 Israeli security officers arrived Tuesday in the Samaria community of Ofra to carry out the court-ordered eviction of nine homes that were illegally built on private Palestinian land. Read more
Netanyahu underscores Israeli security control as two-state solution loses steam
March 1, 2017 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
For the second time in a month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has informed the leader of a major Western power that Israel will retain full security control over all of the disputed territories in any future arrangement with Palestinians…writes Alex Traiman/JNS.org. Read more
Teaching Terrorism in the Classroom: The high price of Israel’s segregated educational system
March 1, 2017 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
On February 23, Israel’s Education Ministry, Jerusalem District Police and Shin Bet security agency closed down a Hamas-operated school in east Jerusalem for teaching a violent, antisemitic and anti-Israeli curriculum…writes Gidon BenZvi. Read more
Miss Sloane: a movie review by Roz Tarszisz
March 1, 2017 by Roz Tarszisz
In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) is a ruthless Washington D.C. lobbyist. Known for her successful track record, she will do whatever it takes to win.
