What Palestinian flags reveal about Israel’s nation-state law
August 14, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
For the second consecutive week, Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square was the site of a Saturday-night protest against Israel’s nation-state law. But the difference between the two demonstrations speaks volumes about the nature of the debate over the controversial legislation…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more
An open letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
August 14, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Claims Conference has focused from its inception on its fight for restitution to compensate Holocaust survivors and now sends an open letter by video to Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read more
Fairfax changes their Gaza headline
August 14, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The problematic headline ‘Mother and child killed by air strike’, placed on an otherwise reasonable report by Isabel Kershner published on August 10 in both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age has now been changed to ‘Talk of cease-fire between Israel, Hamas interrupted by cross-border fire.’ Read more
Women of Diversity Dinner
August 14, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Around 300 women from over 20 cultural backgrounds came together for a night of singing, dancing, eating and laughing at the 2018 Women of Diversity Dinner (WDD) recently held at the Emporium Function Centre in Sydney. Read more
Roman Salyutov’s Melbourne piano recital
August 14, 2018 by Ron Jontof-Hutter
Russian-German pianist Roman Salyutov visited Melbourne on his way home from New Zealand where he enthralled music lovers in a recital…writes Ron Jontof-Hutter. Read more
UK’s Corbyn admits he was ‘present’ at memorial honoring Munich terrorists
August 14, 2018 by JNS
The United Kingdom’s Opposition and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn admitted that he was present at a memorial ceremony in 2014 in Tunisia for the Palestinian terrorists behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, but did not “think” he was involved in the wreath-laying. Read more
Deterrence against Hamas is evaporating
August 13, 2018 by Isi Leibler
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will see his electoral support plummet unless he finds a better solution to the barrage of Hamas rockets and incendiary kites than bombing empty buildings…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Netanyahu: Arab demonstrators want to see end of Israel as Jewish Nation State
The Arab demonstrators who raised Palestinian flags at Saturday night’s protest against the Nation State Law “want to annul Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at the weekly Cabinet meeting, yesterday. Read more
Netanyahu: Israel won’t accept anything less than full Gaza ceasefire
August 13, 2018 by TPS
Israel will not accept anything less than a complete ceasefire with Gaza, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday, while a senior minister said that the option of toppling Hamas was inching ever closer. Read more
The Turk in Italy: an Opera review by Victor Grynberg
August 13, 2018 by Victor Grynberg
2 parts Rossini + 1 part Phillips = a sparkling cocktail. Read more
Feintooner
August 13, 2018 by Feintooner
Feintooner’s view: Parse Farce Read more
Are suicides buried at the edge of the cemetery?…ask the rabbi
August 13, 2018 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple answers this and other questions. Read more
Premier for NSWJBD AGM
August 13, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be the keynote speaker at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies AGM next week. Read more
Gift of Life runs the City to Surf
August 13, 2018 by Community newsdesk
Several participants in Sydney’s annual City to Surf sported their Gift of Life Australia t-shirts to raise awareness about the life-saving program. Read more
Dedication of The Australian Jewish War Memorial and commemoration of the centenary of General Sir John Monash’s knighthood
August 13, 2018 by Yvette Goode
The ACTJC, the Canberra Jewish Centre has held a solemn ceremony in the grounds of the Centre dedicating the Australian Jewish War Memorial to honour Australian Jewish military personnel who have died in wars serving their country. Read more
Gaza: Lieberman gets an ‘F’
August 12, 2018 by Martin Sherman
Shortly after Avigdor Lieberman was appointed Israeli Defence Minister, two Palestinian-Arab terrorists cut down almost a dozen customers at a well-known coffee shop located a few hundred yards from the Ministry of Defence and Israel Defence Forces’ headquarters in Tel Aviv, killing four and wounding the rest…writes Martin Sherman/JNS. Read more
Yiddish 2 – with a Chinese twist
August 12, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Signalling that Yiddish still has some life in it, a Chinese scholar in residence at Oxford University who speaks it fluently has used a Chinese song using modern music demonstrating that Yiddish harmonies are not restricted to the shtetl. Read more
Yiddish 1
August 12, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The World Jewish Congress and its International Yiddish Centre has hosted the International Commemorative Conference of Yiddish Culture and Language in western Ukraine, as part of the Jewish Culture Days in Bukovina celebration. Read more
Head of the Sderot Yeshiva talks of the rocket attacks – a video report
August 12, 2018 by TPS
Rabbi Dov Fendel, Head of the Sderot Yeshiva speaks about the dozens rockets launched by Hamas from Gaza and the damages to the city of Sderot in southern Israel. Read more
Thousands of Christians stand with British Jewry amid Labour antisemitism row
August 12, 2018 by Jackson Richman - JNS
Thousands of Christians have voiced solidarity with British Jewry amid ongoing allegations of antisemitism by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Read more
Amazon pulls ‘Make Israel Palestine Again’ after outrage
August 12, 2018 by JNS
Amazon is no longer selling a T-shirt that reads “Make Israel Palestine Again” amid outrage from consumers and followers of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a non-profit that tracks radical Islam. Read more
Antisemitism on the rise in Germany
August 12, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The World Jewish Congress has expressed strong concern this week following the release of new figures in Germany indicating a 10 percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the country over the course of the first half of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017. Read more
On the other hand
August 12, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
Rockets from Gaza are raining down on Israeli communities in the south of the country…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
IDF airstrike demolishes Hamas building in Gaza City
August 10, 2018 by TPS
IDF jets have demolished a five-storey building in Gaza City used by Hamas’ internal security apparatus, a military spokesman said Thursday evening. Read more
Hamas is taking the region to the brink of war
August 10, 2018 by Yaakov Lappin
The security escalation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours shows that Hamas is prepared to take the region to the brink of war, and that it believes it can force new rules of conduct on Israel while paying a minimal price for its aggression…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS/military correspondent. Read more
2,200-year-old earring found in Jerusalem excavation sheds light on Hellenistic period in Judea
A 2,200-year-old golden earring was discovered at the City of David’s archaeological excavation just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, shedding light on life in the city after it was conquered by the Greeks. Read more
Social media and the hate-speech slippery slope
August 10, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Someone I know once told me that if his elderly mother ever wound up on Facebook, it would mean one of two possible things had happened: Either the social-media giant had become passé or literally everyone on the planet would have acquired a Facebook account…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Promised destination…writes Michael Kuttner
August 10, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
Those who are regular Synagogue attendees will know that at the moment we are reading and making our way through the Book of Devarim. Read more
Meet the Mishpacha family
August 10, 2018 by Paul Solomons
J-Wire introduces to the Mishpacha family and the first of their cartoon strips… Read more
A volunteering example
August 10, 2018 by Lisa Frenkel
Melbourne’s Yeshivah – Beth Rivkah students are imbued with a love of, and dedication to, volunteering and are inspired to initiate and engage in volunteer programs. Read more
