Council managers taught about the Jewish community

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has hosted fourteen members of the management team of the City of Glen Eira on its second City of Glen Eira Jewish Immersion Day. Read more

Five letters to finalise a torah

A brand new Torah in Australia’s Parliament House was completed by all five Jewish Members of Parliament witnessing the moment. Read more

Safer beaches for Tel Aviv

With Magen David Adom announcing that 134 people have got in difficulties swimming in the Mediterranean Sea on Israel’s coastline, news that a new nippers program on Tel Aviv’s beach will be signalled by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm when he visits Israel later this month. Read more

Post holiday precipitation…writes Michael Kuttner

On the last day of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) we pray for rain over the forthcoming winter season. Read more

From Out of Left Field: The JCCV shifts to the Left

Anyone familiar with the stances adopted by the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) in recent time will surely have noticed that it has shifted sharply to the left, especially over, but not limited to, the referendum on same sex marriage…writes Professor Bill Rubenstein. Read more

So who goes to Beersheba?

As New Zealand welcomes its new Labor Prime Minister, it is a waiting game to see who will represent at the 100th anniversary of the famous Light Horse cavalry charge which won Beersheba and marked the end of the Ottoman rule. Read more

Maccabi in Champion of Champions grand final

A  Maccabi Hakoah Football Club team is looking to create local Jewish football history this weekend when it aims to capture the Football NSW’s Under 21 Champion of Champions title this Sunday at Sydney’s Valentines Park. Read more

Deepavali Festival in Sydney

The Jewish community represented at a Deepavali festival at Parramatta Park in Sydney. Read more

Palestinian unity deal could allow Hamas leader to become PA president

The Gaza-controlling Hamas terror group’s recent decision to sign a unity deal with the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ruling Fatah party may have been motivated by more than just a desire to reconcile after years of bitter rivalry. Read more

Securing the Sydney Jewish Museum’s future

The Sydney Jewish Museum honoured four families who have made substantial contributions to the Museum’s Endowment Fund to help ensure the future sustainability of the Museum and the vital work they do in the community. Read more

Fairfax makes up quotes to attack NZ-Israel innovation deal

Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union, has issued a press release and penned an article to correct false and misleading reporting by Fairfax journalist, Madison Reidy, that gave the impression that the Taxpayers’ Union had an anti-Israel agenda.    Read more

Four out of six were made in Australia…a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

The SSO’s Emirates Metro Series chose the theme of fire for its Opera House concert last night. And fiery it was – mostly. Australian composer Brett Dean conducted his own Fire Music while Australian pianist, Piers Lane, had to fire up to get into the ring with Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor leaving Sibelius to represent Finland with six minutes of Scene with Cranes Op 44 No2. Read more

Hope for reason to prevail at the UNHRC as Australia takes its place

The Jewish community has welcomed the Australia’s election to Unite Nations Human Right Council. Read more

President Trump did the right thing by walking away from UNESCO

The State Department announced on Thursday that the United States would be withdrawing from the UN agency UNESCO, citing financial reasons, the need for reform and the body’s “continuing anti-Israel bias”…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Fatah-Hamas reconciliation: A fusion of evils…writes Isi Leibler

World leaders – including some of our American friends – are apparently still unwilling to face reality and continue to delude themselves that Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority can be induced to making a peace settlement if Israel continues to appease them and excuse their crimes. Read more

Historian travels New Zealand to recount Holocaust Denial experience

History aficionados attended an event at University of Otago’s Wellington Campus on the weekend to hear a famous historian share how he overcame an infamous Holocaust denier. Read more

World Jewish Congress calls Austrian election result ‘distressing’

The World Jewish Congress (WJC)  has voiced serious concerns about the strong showing of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Austria’s parliamentary election. Read more

What did Michael do in Israel?

Media reports it had evidence Labor MP Michael Danby had attended a security conference when he was reported visiting Israel last year when on sick leave from Parliament. Read more

Australia elected to U.N. Human Rights Council

Australia was elected overnight by a majority of United Nations member states to serve a three-year term on the Human Rights Council, the world’s peak body for promoting and protecting human rights. Read more

My view…writes Ron Weiser

President Trump continues to surprise his critics when it comes to the Middle East. He behaves in a more measured way, carrying out most of his administration’s activities behind the scenes and by maintaining different levels of pressure upon parties on all sides. Read more

Islamic State claims responsibility for rockets fired at Israel from Sinai

The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for firing two rockets from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Sunday night. Read more

New portions of Western Wall and Roman theatre unveiled in Jerusalem

The Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) has announced large-scale excavations conducted in the Old City of Jerusalem for the past two years have revealed massive portions of the Western Wall unseen for 1,700 years, as well as an ancient Roman theatre. Read more

Danby uses a sick pass to visit to Israel

The Australian has reported that Federal Labor MP for Melbourne Ports furnished the party with a medical certificate in order to take time off from the sitting parliament in September last year…and that he used the time to travel to Israel. Read more

Hamas’s reported agreement to cease terror against Israel seen as ‘highly unlikely’

Under the new unity deal brokered last week between the Gaza-controlling Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ruling Fatah party, Hamas reportedly agreed to cease all terror attacks against Israelis…writes Adam Abrams/JNS.org. Read more

Racing journo taunts club exec about his “Yid mates

A Melbourne Racing Club executive has complained to The Age newspaper that one of its racing journalists spoke to him of  his “Yid mates at Caulfield”. Read more

America and Israel quit UNESCO over “Palestine” fiasco

UNESCO’s decision to admit “Palestine” as a member state in 2011 in apparent breach of UNESCO’s own Constitution has come back to bite UNESCO with a vengeance – as America and Israel now give formal notice of their intention to quit UNESCO on 31 December 2018…writes David Singer. Read more

Were Adam and Eve Jewish?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple has the answer, Read more

Feintooner

Feintooner on the Hamas/Fatah conciliation. Read more

“The Jews are like my people” – Aboriginal elder

At the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia’s Conference in Darwin delegates Josie and Ian Lacey heard an address by Djapirri Mununggirritj . Read more

An indigenous New Zealander says “I am a Zionist”

Part Maori, part Samoan and part Italian, this Kiwi explains why he is a Zionist…a video production. Read more

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