The Time of Their Lives – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Like a dish described on a menu, some things don’t always live up to the promise.  A road movie with two (very) mature Englishwomen, running away from home and behaving disgracefully, plus the promise of late life romance, sounded delicious.

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Mesirah? Ask the rabbi

“Mesira” was a key word in the recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Rabbi Apple answers  about its meaning. Read more

Fallout after Carr’s address to NSW Labor

The executive director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Peter Wertheim has described some comments at the NSW Labor conference made by former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr as being “ignorant and disingenuous”. Read more

Women of Diversity

Over 350 women from across Sydney and communities worldwide attended the second annual Women of Diversity Dinner in Bankstown on Saturday night – half of them newly arrived from the Middle East, many of them Christians fleeing persecution, sexual slavery and genocide. Read more

Call for Temple Mount to not be a site for violence or incitement

Fifty years ago, after recapturing the Temple Mount which also houses the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosque, Israel established the so-called “status quo” which has remained more or less unchanged since 1967. Read more

NSW Labor group vows to oppose Bob Carr on Israel

The NSW Labor Israel Action Committee (LIAC) has vowed to continue to oppose former NSW Premier Bob Carr’s continued activity on Israel – after successfully forcing him to recognise Israel’s right to exist within secure and recognised borders”. Read more

No OK from NSW Labor to a federal Labor government recognising a Palestinian state unilaterally

The Australia Israel Labor Dialogue (AILD) today congratulated the NSW Labor Branch Conference in not agreeing to bind a future Federal Labor Government to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Read more

Drinkable water at the top of Israel’s list of national security issues.

Perhaps few resources are more valuable to a nation than water and energy supplies. Israel will soon reach what could be a point of no return in which the Netanyahu government will have to decide which to put first: water or energy. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

Some of this week’s good news which most probably never surfaced in your local media. Read more

Can the President pardon himself?

President Trump’s tweets about his broad power to pardon have raised the ultimate question: Can the president pardon himself? The answer is crystal clear! And anyone who gives you a different answer is misleading you, because there is only one correct answer…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Finding Jewish foster carers

Sydney crisis care community charity Jewish House has hosted an information evening for interested potential  foster care families.  Read more

Wanting introductions

I’m architect and professor in Brazil. Read more

SBS apologises for “sloppy and biased” reporting

SBS has apologised for a report on a recent attack in Jerusalem which stated that an “attacker was shot dead after stabbing a border police officer” which failed to report that the young policewoman victim died of her injuries. Read more

Israel’s VENµS Satellite to be launched into space next week

VENµS – Israel’s first environmental research satellite – will be launched into space on August 2 on the “Vega” launcher from French Guiana. Read more

The Scorpion and the Frog…writes Michael Kuttner

This tale of duplicity has a moral which basically teaches us that what is fundamentally vicious will not change because one’s nature cannot be changed. Read more

Kehillat Kadima takes over from South Head

A brand new congregation has been granted a six-month lease to the building which housed the South Head Synagogue which is in liquidation. Read more

UIA says thanks

UIA hosted its annual Volunteer’s Thank You Dinner for over 100 people in Melbourne. Read more

Peta Credlin and James Morrow talk about Israel

Sky News Political Contributor Peta Credlin and Daily Telegraph Opinion Editor James Morrow have addressed a luncheon hosted by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) in Sydney following their return from an AIJAC Rambam study mission to Israel. Read more

President Rivlin pays a condolence visit to the Salomon family

President Reuven Rivlin this afternoon (Wednesday), paid a condolence visit in Elad, at the home of Elad Salomon, who was murdered together with his father Yossi, and sister Chaya in a terror attack on Friday night in Halamish. Read more

Melbourne letter writing for Cairns Siyum Sefer Torah

Members of the Melbourne community has come together to help celebrate the first ever Sefer Torah to service the Jewish community in North Queensland. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel call for no change in Labor’s policy to Israel

Indigenous Friends of Israel spokesperson Munganbana Norman Miller again today urged the NSW and Federal Labor Party not to change its policy towards Israel. Read more

Magen David Adom focuses on one thing and one thing alone…saving lives.

Jewish tour-guide and educator for StandWithUs Kay Wilson and a friend were viciously attacked by terrorists, while hiking near Jerusalem. She will be the guest speaker at Magen David Adom annual campaign dinner in Sydney. Read more

EU court keeps Hamas on terror list

The World Jewish Congress has welcomed the European Court of Justice’s decision to uphold the European Union’s listing of Hamas as a terrorist organisation  and called on the EU do to everything in its power to prevent European entities from engaging in business or showing any other form of support with it.  Read more

Hebrew University dinner in Sydney

The Australian Friends of the Hebrew University (NSW Division) has co-hosted a dinner with the Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund at the InterContinental Hotel Double Bay. Read more

Sydney mother to swim the English Channel to raise support for families struggling with perinatal anxiety

A Sydney doctor is preparing to swim the English Channel next month to raise funds for  PANDA – Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia. Read more

Feintooner on Halamish

Feintooner turns his thoughts to the three Israelis murdered in Halamish. Read more

Australian World Orchestra’s  chamber spin-off…a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

With the veracity and popularity of the Australian World Orchestra now firmly established, its creators, led by conductor Alexander Briger, no doubt feel the need for development. That’s what last night’s chamber music concert was all about. Read more

Mother of Halamish terrorist arrested on incitement charges

Israeli soldiers arrested the mother of Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed Tuesday on charges of “aggravated incitement,” following her son’s fatal stabbing of an Israeli father and two of his adult children last Friday night in the Samaria community of Halamish. Read more

Meta-analysis finds that among men from North America, Europe and Australia, sperm concentration has declined more than 50% in less than 40 years

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report a significant decline in sperm concentration and total sperm count among men from Western countries.  Read more

Rising from the Ashes

For many who survived the terrors of the Holocaust, questioning ones faith and belief in G-d, religion and Judaism became a real and profound challenge to face. How do you continue to recognise a G-d who allowed such tremendous evil to occur?…a new video from Melbourne’s Jewish Care. Read more

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