The House with a Clock in Its Walls – film review by Elana Bowman

Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) in an old Michigan mansion. Read more

30 years after launch, Israel unveiled images of its first satellite

On a late Monday morning, exactly 30 years ago, Israel’s first satellite was secretly boosted into orbit around the Earth from the Palmachim Airbase, located south of Tel Aviv.
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Sarah visits home bringing Beethoven and Bach

Internationally acclaimed Australian pianist, Sarah Grunstein, returns to the Sydney Opera House by popular demand, to perform two concerts in 2018. Read more

Will I drive or will I walk?

Relate with me here: have you ever ventured out to buy a bottle of milk from the corner store, only to find out it’s been demolished and converted into a gym?…writes Rabbi Eli Schlanger. Read more

New primary head for Moriah

Lynda Fisher has been appointed as Head of  Primary School at Sydney’s Moriah College. Read more

Chelsea FC and WJC to convene international summit in Paris to fight racism in sports

The World Jewish Congress and its President Ronald S. Lauder, together with senior officials of the top English soccer team Chelsea Football Club have announced that they will convene an international summit in 2019 to battle discrimination, racism and antisemitism in sports. Read more

Turkey takes pragmatic steps towards repairing damaged relations with Israel

Amid shared concerns over Iran’s regional aggression among other interests, Israel and Turkey have been attempting to mend relations with one another despite their subtle differences, according to an Israeli media report on Monday. Read more

Why it’s still open season on ‘obstacles to peace’

One more Jewish life was just added to the list of those killed during the century-old conflict between Jews and Arabs…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Oslo Accords’ first quarter-century … and their next

Whether the Oslo Accords—the 25-year of their signing that was marked on Sept. 13—were dead-on-arrival or were asphyxiated by an Arab refusal to negotiate, or to abide by them or even to have accepted them over a period of time, remains immaterial…writes Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more

Israel’s unabating efforts to thwart terror

The intense focus on the Iranian issue, and in recent months on a possible military escalation in Gaza, has distracted us from a simple fact: The most complicated front Israel must contend with is Judea and Samaria…writes Yoav Limor/JNS. Read more

If Israel was a village of 100 people….

A look at how Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics would see the population… Read more

Yeshivah joins Manny Waks in welcoming settlement

Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre has followed child sex abuse advocate Manny Waks in welcoming the confidential settlement  between them in relation to the abuse he experienced at the Centre. Read more

UK Jews: Unity at any price…writes Isi Leibler

The list of 50 Most Influential Jews published by The Jerusalem Post included Marie van der Zyl, the recently elected president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Read more

U.S. updates special antisemitism envoy position to ambassadorial rank

The World Jewish Congress welcomes the U.S. Congress’ legislation to upgrade to ambassador level the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the State Department and calls for a swift appointment to the position. Read more

Supporters club

Leaders of a number of Christian Zionist organisations have joined with representatives of the two Jewish communal roof bodies – the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) for a lunch get together.

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Grosvenor was generous and brilliant: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

If ever there was a piano recital worth queuing up for it was the one given last night by young English pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor. Read more

Thousands mourn terrorism victim Ari Fuld

The funeral began with soft singing. The swelling crowd stood for over an hour lamenting his death through words of Jewish prayer and song. There was not a dry eye in sight. Read more

Incendiary balloons flown to Israel from West Bank

A yellow balloon with Arabic writing on it landed in the Jewish community of Beit Horon north of Jerusalem on Sunday, and is believed to be an incendiary “terror balloon” like the ones that have been launched from Gaza to start arson fires along the border inside Israel. Read more

Ari Fuld: A staunch defender of Israel and the truth

Ari Fuld died as he lived. He was a robust man of courage with inner and outer strength. So when 17-year-old Khalil Jabarin of Yatta, a village south of Hebron, stabbed him in the back outside the Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion on Sunday morning, it is no surprise that Fuld immediately got back up and started chasing him, drawing his personal handgun at the same time and firing off a shot, wounding the terrorist before collapsing and succumbing to his own wounds…writes Israel Kassnett/JNS. Read more

How feasible is a long-term truce with Hamas?

The prospect of a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas brings with it both risks and opportunities…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

IDF prepares to demolish home of terrorist who killed Ari Fuld

The IDF in conjunction with Shin Bet has raided the home of the 17-year-old terrorist, Khalil Jabarin, who killed well-known Israel activist Ari Fuld on Sunday morning in Gush Etzion. Read more

For all our sins…writes Jeremy Rosen

The Torah introduces us to the idea that we confess our sins to God (Leviticus 5:5 and 16:21). To God, not to humans—priests or otherwise—because, according to our tradition, it is a question of human dignity not to demean ourselves in the eyes of other human beings by revealing our errors to other humans. Read more

A mazeltov from Bibi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called gymnast Linoy Ashram and congratulated her on winning the silver medal at the 36^th Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Read more

Go “Beyond Borders” with Melton: Understanding the Middle East Conflict

The Arab-Israeli conflict is complex and seems intractable.  What if there were a way to get to “the bottom” of the conflict, gain a real understanding of its origins and be able to make sense of events in this turbulent region as they unfold? Read more

Israeli man stabbed to death in Judea by Palestinian teenager

A 45-year-old father of four and prolific pro-Israel activist was stabbed to death by an Arab teenager on Sunday morning outside a shopping center in Gush Etzion, Judea. Read more

Feintooner

Feintooner: The man who knew too little

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Manny Waks and The Yeshivah Centre

After six years of litigation against Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre for the ongoing sexual abuse that happened under their watch, followed by cover-ups and victim intimidation, the matter between the Centre of  child sexual abuse advocate Manny Waks has been resolved. Read more

Israeli human-rights org files criminal charges against Hamas leader in world court

An Israeli human-rights organization has filed a request at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, asking the organization to investigate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh for exploiting thousands of Palestinian children in the terror organisation’s quest to destroy Israel. Read more

After caring for thousands of wounded Syrians, including kids, IDF closes aid unit

With the Syrian regime again in control of its side of the Golan Heights border, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday that it would shut down its “Good Neighbor” campaign after two years of operations, during which it provided humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians across the border. Read more

Latest scientific field, Quantum Metamaterials, discovered in Israel

Two teams of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology collaborated to conduct monumental research to discover an innovative new scientific field: Quantum Metamaterials. Read more

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