Netanyahu to Macron in Paris

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken at a joint press conference in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron. Read more

Israel tourism up 24% in November

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, 355,900 tourist entries were recorded in November 2017, about 24% more than November 2016. Read more

World Jewish Congress condemns firebomb attack on Swedish synagogue

The World Jewish Congress has expressed extreme concern after a gang of masked men hurled firebombs at a synagogue in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on Saturday night.  “Anti-Semitic violence will never be tolerated; we call on all European governments to make this message infinitely clear and enforced,” said WJC CEO Robert Singer. Read more

Preschoolers share Chanukah with Aged Care residents

There were around 80 or so odd years and a lifetime of experience between them, but laughter and song easily bridged the generation gap when pre-schoolers visited the residents of BUPA Aged Care in Sydney’s St Ives.  Read more

Jewish Care Celebrates Excellence at 2017 Staff & Volunteer Awards

Melbourne’s Jewish Care Victoria have presented their Staff and Volunteer Service & Excellence Awards. Read more

Maccabi Victoria welcomes marriage equality

Maccabi Victoria president Brian Swersky has stressed that all members of all sexual persuasions are welcome at all the organisation’s clubs. Read more

Europe violently protests Jerusalem changes as Netanyahu visits the continent

Anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstrations pervaded Europe this weekend as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the continent days after the Trump administration’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Hypocrisy Read more

Chanukah lights fulfil a double purpose

Rabbi Raymond Apple explains…. Read more

Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival

Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival’s first night of Chutzpah at Kadimah Hall saw a line up of comedic talent take to the stage with MC’s Justine Sless and Newton Gatoff introducing Josh Glanc, Marilyn Tofler, Jem Robin, Damien Vosk and Rebecca Harcourt who each had a shtick goin’ on… Read more

Religious Liberals: On the Way Down?…asks Bill Rubinstein

A recent report in the Australian Jewish News (“Rabbis Urge Compassion,” 24 November) concerned  a meeting of the Council of Progressive Rabbis and the Council of Masorti Rabbis in Australia. Read more

In decades-long AMIA Jewish center affair, the truth will come out

Like so many pins in a bowling alley, the treacherous former Argentine leaders who signed a secret pact exonerating Iran of its responsibility for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires are, finally, collapsing under the rolling weight of judicial scrutiny…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Leader of Israel’s Left slants right amid a changing political map

Avi Gabbay, a leader of Israel’s political left and presumably one of the top challengers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a future election, has surprised the Israeli public with what many consider right-wing rhetoric…writes Ariel Ben Solomon/JNS.org. Read more

Media falsely discredit Trump as he confronts UN on Jerusalem

The media has discredited President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital – falsely claiming the President has reversed nearly seven decades of American foreign policy…writes David Singer. Read more

Analysing Jerusalem

President Trump’s declaration and recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is undeniably a major symbolic milestone and one that is to be welcomed and applauded…writes Ron Weiser. Read more

Violence should not determine policy…writes Alan Dershowitz

Many who are opposed to President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital point to the call for violence by Hamas and the scattered violence on the West Bank as evidence that Trump was wrong. Read more

Polish Jewish cemetery being excavated to become a parking lot

The World Jewish Congress is urging the Polish authorities to put an immediate stop to the excavation of an old Jewish cemetery in eastern Poland being dug up for the construction of an electrical substation and parking lot. Read more

Ambassador Nikki Haley tells United Nations why Trump named Jerusalem Israel’s capital

The USA ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells the Security Council why President Trump declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. A video presentation.
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Sir Frank Lowy

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has knighted the Sydney-based co-founder of the Westfield Shopping Centre conglomerate Frank Lowy at Windsor Castle. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

The Festival of Chanukah is approaching and for those of us privileged to live in or near Jerusalem the miracle of this joyous occasion is evident everywhere we look. Read more

Moriah wins a tank

Sydney’s Moriah Primary School Student Voice representatives entered the Waverley Municipal Council Green Sparks competition and won $500 towards a rainwater tank for our garden.  Read more

Meet Gidi Grinstein and Tikkun Olam Makers

Gidi Grinstein, Reut Group Founder, talks TOM with Henry Greener in the Shtick Studio. Visiting TOM Melbourne at Swinburne University last week, Gidi saw first hand the way TOM Makers work with Need Knowers to design and create innovative, practical ways to solve problems that in a commercial world would be utterly impossible. Read more

Thank you Peter Dutton

Despite the shocking situation on Manus Island, Peter Dutton, Minister for Immigration and Border Control, has given clearance for the Music for Refugees organisation to send three cartons of music instruments to the detainees at Nauru. Read more

Jerusalem controversy nothing new

Donald Trump’s announcement recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was, in itself, nothing new, nor should it be controversial. Read more

Millie Phillips donates US$15 milllion to the Tel Aviv University

In a significant boost to its US$1 billion Global Capital Campaign, Tel Aviv University is naming its Student City student housing complex in honor of Sydney’s Millie Phillips. Read more

World Jewish Congress condemns vandalism of Amsterdam kosher restaurant

The World Jewish Congress on Wednesday condemned the vandalism attack carried out against a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam and said it stood behind the Jewish community in the Netherlands in fighting all forms of antisemitism. Read more

The Rabbinical Council of Australia and New Zealand applaud Donald Trump

Rabbinical Council of Australia and New Zealand have stated that Jerusalem is the eternal undivided capital of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Read more

Victoria opens office in Tel Aviv

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has officially opened a Victorian Government trade and investment office in Israel. Read more

The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference

The JP Diplomatic Conference took place on Wednesday 6 December and as usual attracted a variety of speakers ranging from politicians to diplomats and business leaders. J-Wire’s Michael Kuttner was there. Read more

Rugby fever breaks out at Israeli school

The Waldorf Rimon Junior High and High School in Pardes Hanna was recently the scene of a touch rugby carnival. Read more

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