UN votes to give ‘State of Palestine’ leadership of developing-nations bloc

In a landslide, the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday voted to grant the “State of Palestine” additional temporary rights and privileges that will enable it to head the largest bloc of developing countries at the United Nations. Read more

Billy Rose

Who was Billy Rose? If you have visited the museum complex in Jerusalem, not far from the Knesset, you will be familiar with the Billy Rose sculpture garden…writes Jeremy Rosen. Read more

The problem with B’Tselem

The U.N. Security Council heard testimony on Thursday about Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians from B’Tselem…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Chelm is alive and well…writes Michael Kuttner

Chelm was a mythical Yiddish-speaking town which had a disproportionate share of shlemiels and shlemazels whose mind-boggling stupidity provided an endless source of merriment and mirth. Read more

The John and Dave Show

Former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard who served Australia in the role from 1996 to 2007 walked around Double Bay shops today with the Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma.  Read more

The Kavanaugh imbroglio…writes Isi Leibler

Although I am not American, I must confess that I was glued to the screen watching the Kavanaugh hearings in the U.S. Senate. Read more

Dr Kerryn Phelps talks to Henry Greener

Independent Candidate for Wentworth, Dr Kerryn Phelps, on a visit to Our Big Kitchen, finds a few minutes to speak to Henry Greener about her political views, her connection to community work and her attempt to make a difference through entering politics as the Member for Wentworth. Read more

Board president’s quote on Dave Sharma’s flyers “a misunderstanding”

The president of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Lesli Berger has accepted Liberals’ Wentworth candidate explanation that a quote used by Dave Sharma’s team attributed to him on flyers was a misunderstanding. Read more

Wentworth final questions: Dave Sharma

In the interests of ensuring that our community is properly informed and engaged in the political process The Executive Council of Australian Jewry asked the four candidates currently polling at over 10% of the primary vote (as per the Reachtell poll published on 17 September), to state their positions on matters of special concern to Jewish Australians.  Read more

Wentworth final questions: Licia Heath

In the interests of ensuring that our community is properly informed and engaged in the political process The Executive Council of Australian Jewry asked the four candidates currently polling at over 10% of the primary vote (as per the Reachtell poll published on 17 September), to state their positions on matters of special concern to Jewish Australians.  Read more

Wentworth final questions: Dr Kerryn Phelps

In the interests of ensuring that our community is properly informed and engaged in the political process The Executive Council of Australian Jewry asked the four candidates currently polling at over 10% of the primary vote (as per the Reachtell poll published on 17 September), to state their positions on matters of special concern to Jewish Australians.  Read more

Wentworth final questions: Tim Murray

In the interests of ensuring that our community is properly informed and engaged in the political process The Executive Council of Australian Jewry asked the four candidates currently polling at over 10% of the primary vote (as per the Reachtell poll published on 17 September), to state their positions on matters of special concern to Jewish Australians.  Read more

Israel remains cautious amid global fury at Saudi Arabia over journalist’s suspicious death

Saudi Arabia appears to have severely miscalculated its ability to quietly silence critics after it has come under strong suspicion over the disappearance and possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the Saudi government and a columnist for The Washington Post…writes Israel Kasnett/JNS. Read more

Israel has reached decision time on Gaza

Events in Gaza are moving quickly, and Israel has now reached a critical fork in the road with two main paths: a significant military escalation, which has the potential to gain momentum and turn into a broader armed conflict; or a long-term arrangement, designed to restore calm to the area…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

Israel’s President Rivlin meeta with the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process

President Reuven Rivlin has met UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace process, Nickolay Mladenov, and discussed regional diplomatic and security issues. Read more

Mishpacha – chopped liver

Follow the adventures of a Jewish family with whom you may well recognise… Read more

How lucky is your adolescent child?

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Top Israeli journalist to speak at UIA functions

Ohad Hemo, the Palestinian Affairs Correspondent for Channel 2 News in Israel will speak at UIA events in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth next month. Read more

Netanyahu responds to Beersheva attack: ‘Israel will take very strong action’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “strong action” in response to a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday which smashed a home in Beersheva, Israel’s third-largest city. Read more

Jordan jumps on Trump bandwagon leaving PLO way behind

Any lingering thought that the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) would have any role to play in President Trump’s soon-to-be-released peace plan has vanished – after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that $165 million had been deducted from funding to the PLO because of its continuing “pay for slay” policy in breach of the Taylor Force Act. Read more

Three favourites that couldn’t miss: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he SSO programmers meet. Read more

Be’ersheva home destroyed by powerful Gaza rocket, family miraculously saved

A medium-range grad rocket fired by Hamas destroyed a home in Be’ersheva, Israel’s third largest city, deep inside Israeli territory. Read more

Wentworth: a pollster’s view three days out

Raphaella Kathryn Crosby believes that either Kerryn Phelps OR Tim Murray could win. Read more

Wentworth candidates address the Jewish community

Over 250 people packed NCJW Council House in Woollahra last night for the Wentworth by-election candidate’s forum co-hosted by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more

Liberal Democrats behind Jewish community…but disappointed

Liberal Democrats candidate for the Wentworth by-election, Sam Gunning, has reinforced the party’s commitment to Sydney’s Jewish community today but concedes it is disappointing the Liberal Democrats have been excluded from two key forums in the lead up to this Saturday’s poll. Read more

Semakh 100th anniversary commemoration

The centenary of the battle of Semakh has been recently commemorated in Israel.  Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Shifting scales of shifty states Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel leader welcomes Morrison’s statement on Jerusalem

Indigenous Friends of Israel Chairman Munganbana Norman Miller has welcomed the statement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to consider moving the Australian embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Read more

The Christian Arab dilemma

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem on Sunday and uttered something that was incontrovertibly true: “Israel is the only country that protects the human rights of all.” Read more

Scott Morrison has done us no favours

I am angry. Scott Morrison has done us no favours…writes Clive Kessler. Read more

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