Dramatic turnaround sees Moshe Lion elected Mayor Of Jerusalem
November 15, 2018 by Mara Vigevani - TPS
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns over opposition to Gaza ceasefire
November 15, 2018 by JNS
Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman abruptly resigned his post and removed his Yisrael Beytenu Party from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition less than a day after Israel reportedly agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas. Read more
Hamas rolls the dice … again
November 14, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
From the possibility of an agreement to that of war, complete with dead and wounded, Hamas has returned together with other terrorist militias to hold all citizens in southern Israel hostage. Read more
An avoidable war with Gaza becomes inevitable
November 14, 2018 by JNS
The Fourth Hamas War, as this latest conflagration may soon be called, comes as a surprise to no one. For the past six months, Hamas has been staging provocations and firing on Israeli communities at will. Read more
Israel needs a new policy in Gaza
November 14, 2018 by Martin Sherman
The escalation in the violence emanating from Gaza on the very day after Israel permitted the transfer of millions of Qatari-sourced dollars into the coastal enclave underscores the futility of persisting with conventional wisdom. Read more
Danon to UN: there are no ‘two sides’ concerning Gaza
November 14, 2018 by JNS
In advance of a closed emergency United Nations Security Council meeting, called by Kuwait and Bolivia, on the latest barrage of rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon had a message for the world: There is no moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Read more
In the Middle East, you win with fear
November 14, 2018 by Efraim Inbar
The past six months have brought us violent demonstrations along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, including cross-border infiltrations, rocket fire and incendiary kites and balloons. This means that a so-called “agreement” or truce is not a viable option. Read more
Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire after rocket barrage
November 14, 2018 by JNS
A senior Israeli official indicated that an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Hamas, and other Gaza terrorist groups, amid the latter launching more than 400 rockets into Israel since Monday. Read more
Hamas rockets and the idea of two states
November 14, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Does it really matter what started the shooting at the border between Israel and Hamas-run Gaza? Read more
Youth celebrating Israel
November 14, 2018 by Community Editor
The NCJWA “Youth Celebrating Israel” event marks the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, on 29 November 1947 calling for the establishment of a Jewish State alongside an Arab State, thus leading to the establishment of the State of Israel. Read more
The Be’ersheva Dialogue
November 14, 2018 by Ahron Shapiro
The Fourth Annual Be’ersheva Dialogue, held recently in Melbourne brought together defence officials, senior parliamentarians and analysts from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and Begin-Sadat (BESA) Centre for Strategic Studies and elsewhere to discuss areas of common interest and potential collaboration. Read more
ZFA condemns Hamas rockets
November 13, 2018 by Emily Gian
The Zionist Federation of Australia strongly condemns Hamas and other terrorist organisations operating in Gaza for firing over 300 rockets at Israeli civilians over the course of a few hours. Read more
Man killed, two seriously hurt in direct rocket hit in Ashkelon
Jeremy Leibler replaces Danny Lamm as ZFA president
November 13, 2018 by Emily Gian
Jeremy Leibler has attended the Zionist Federation of Australia’s biennial conference as its new president. Read more
Installation of Australia’s first female senior rabbi
November 13, 2018 by Leanne Shelton
Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel’s Rabbi Nicole Roberts will become the first woman in Australia to be installed as senior rabbi. Read more
Honouring Victoria’s Jewish senior citizens
November 13, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews announced today that a re-elected Labor Government will invest $3.4 million in a historic boost to multicultural senior citizen organisations. Read more
Hamas ‘raises the stakes’ with mass rocket assault on Israel’s south
November 13, 2018 by Yaakov Lappin
Hamas and other armed Gazan factions launched a widespread rocket and mortar assault on southern Israel as evening descended on Monday, in an assault seen by the terror organizations as a calculated risk. Read more
LIVE STREAM: Missile hits bus in Gaza Belt, over 300 rockets fired at South, IAF attacks in Gaza
November 13, 2018 by Yona Schnitzer - TPS
An Israeli bus was hit by an anti-tank missile shot from Gaza on Monday evening, severely wounding a 19-year-old male. Read more
Holocaust Memorial Exhibition launches in New Zealand
November 13, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Children’s Holocaust Memorial will be officially launched at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington on Thursday. Read more
Reporter’s notebook: under fire on the Gaza border
November 13, 2018 by Ilanit Chernick - TPS
The sky lit up for a moment and the quiet was shattered by the cries “Tzeva Adom” meaning Colour Red – the sign that there was an incoming rocket attack. Read more
One citizen’s rights wrongs another
November 12, 2018 by Rabbi Chaim Ingram
It was only just over a year ago that the Yes campaigners for the same-sex marriage vote were at pains to assure voters that religious institutions would continue to be protected…writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram. Read more
Walking together
November 12, 2018 by Community newsdesk
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV), together with the William Cooper Legacy Project invite friends and allies to join with us in Walking Together, as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the William Cooper march on the German Consulate which took place in Melbourne on the 6th December 1938. Read more
Senior Hamas commander killed in Gaza raid, IDF denies soldier kidnapped
November 12, 2018 by Ilanit Chernick - TPS
BDS targets Netta’s European tour
November 12, 2018 by Mara Vigevani - TPS
Eurovision Song Contest winner Netta Barzilai’s European tour, which begins in Vienna, is being targeted by anti-Israel boycott movements that have called for her to be given “warm BDS welcome”. Read more
The new Labor leader in Macquarie Street
November 12, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Labor frontbencher and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has welcomed the election of Maroubra MP Michael Daley and Upper House MLC Penny Sharpe as leader and deputy leader of the NSW Labor Party – respectively – saying they will be concentrating on NSW domestic affairs rather than foreign affairs. Read more
World-class pianist and UIA success story entertains longstanding supporters
November 12, 2018 by Jenna Chaitowitz
UIA NSW was honoured to host world-class pianist, Victor Stanislavsky from Israel at a ‘thank you’ brunch for cumulative givers. Read more
Cairns remembers Pittsburgh
November 12, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Chabad Cairns is to hold a public conversation after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Read more
Australians do support recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
November 12, 2018 by Peter Wertheim
The brouhaha that followed the federal government’s announcement that Australia will consider moving Australia’s Israeli embassy to Jerusalem continues to sputter along…writes Peter Wertheimer. Read more
Netanyahu in Paris for armistice commemoration
November 12, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined a host of world leaders in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice which heralded the end of World War I. Read more
Can you refuse medical treatment? Ask the rabbi
November 12, 2018 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple served for 32 years as the chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia’s oldest and most prestigious congregation. He is now retired and lives in Jerusalem where he answers interesting questions. Read more
