Barmvitzah at 52

While a normal bar or bat mitzvah will typically feature a row of proud grandparents in the congregation doing what is known in Yiddish as kvelling, Dean Waring was surrounded by his wife and children as he had his bar mitzvah in the North Queensland city of Mackay. Read more

Kosher electoral office

The spiritual head of Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins visited the Edgecliff electoral office of newly elected Independent Dr Kerryn Phelps and joined her in affixing a mezuzah Read more

Progressive machzor

The new Machzor ‘Mishkan T’shuvah’ has just gone to press, to be delivered to the congregations of the Union for Progressive Judaism across Australia and New Zealand in time for next High Holy Days.  Read more

Outgoing Jerusalem Mayor Barkat: ‘Lion will continue the city’s positive cultural renaissance’

Outgoing Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat announced that he would not be running for a third term and will instead be entering national politics…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS. Read more

Israeli stem cell collaboration to change insulin need for Diabetes 1 patients

The Australian  Foundation for Diabetes Research has entered into an arrangement with Israeli company Kadimastem to explore overcoming the need for insulin administration in people with type 1 diabetes. Read more

IPO visit cancelled

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has cancelled the Australian leg of Maestro Zubin Mehta’s farewell world tour due to unforeseen issues with touring logistics. Read more

Baby of Chanukah terror victims pronounced dead

The baby son of Amichai and Shira-Ish Ran, delivered by emergency Caesarean section at just 30 weeks, was pronounced dead on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre. Read more

United Nations, Egypt and Jordan could scuttle Trump’s peace plan

President Trump’s long-awaited peace plan to end the Arab-Jewish conflict – slated for release by the end of January 2019 – could be indefinitely shelved…writes David Singer. Read more

Mishpacha

Follow the adventures of a Jewish family some of whom you might recognise… Read more

Despite new police recommendations to indict, Netanyahu has no intention or legal mandate to resign

When Israeli police issued a third recommendation to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for suspected bribery, opposition leaders increased their calls for Israel’s second longest-serving leader to resign. Read more

CAPHARNAÜM: a movie review by Hila Tsor

CAPHARNAÜM was a genuine masterpiece, a story that will stick with you months later.  Read more

Special religious education celebrated in bi-partisan NSW parliament event

Special religious education (SRE) in New South Wales is celebrating a resurgence in support and recognition after a successful event in parliament house endorsed by both the Government and the Opposition. Read more

Parents of young mother wounded in ofra terror attack say condition improving

Chaim and Liora Silberstein, the parents of Shira Ish-Ron, the young mother injured critically in Sunday night’s shooting attack at the Ofra Junction in Samaria, confirmed on Monday night that her condition is improving. Read more

Plan to halve unnecessary medications

Multiple medication use in older people is often harmful and unnecessary, contributing to the $1.2 billion national annual cost of medicine-related hospital admissions. Read more

Why the Magnitsky Act is important for Australia

Most Australians were unfamiliar with Ukraine prior to the missile shooting down Malaysian Airlines MH17. Read more

International Jewish LGBT+ community to hold its World Congress in Sydney

The World Congress – Keshet Ga’avah, the worldwide voice of Jews of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, will bring delegates from across the globe including United States, France, Holland, Italy, Latin America, New Zealand, Israel and around the globe to Sydney next year. Read more

Despite UN vote, Palestinian terror is still a losing strategy

The U.N. General Assembly narrowly defeated a resolution last Thursday that would have condemned Hamas for its terror campaign against Israel…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Pregnant Jewish woman and six others gunned down in Chanukah terror attack

A young pregnant woman and six other travellers were injured in a Palestinian shooting attack at a bus stop outside the Jewish town of Ofra on Sunday night. Read more

Brazil delivers on promise to vote with Israel

The symbolic victory against Hamas at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, in which 87 nations supported a draft resolution condemning Hamas, marked another milestone: Brazil took an unprecedented step by siding with Israel and the U.S. Read more

Human Rights Day – The Magnitsky Bill

Today marks 70 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Read more

Netanyahu: We have no interest in sparking Palestinian fronts unless there is no choice

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Rambam participants tell their story

Participants from two different groups of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Rambam study program to Israel and the Palestinian Territories have briefed an AIJAC luncheon in Sydney. Read more

Is a person who has left Judaism still Jewish? Ask the rabbi

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

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Tunnel Vision Read more

Israel Institute demands answers to NZ abstention on important UN vote

Institute of New Zealand director, Dr David Cumin, is demanding to know who was responsible for a ‘bizarre’ decision by New Zealand to abstain on an important procedural vote at the UN which helped pave the way for ‘a small degree of balance to the international bias against Israel’. Read more

UN-Hamas day of infamy mars Trump-Israel day of celebration

December 6, 2018, marks the day the United Nations General Assembly (“UNGA”) infamously sold its soul to evil by failing to agree on whether a resolution condemning Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza required two-thirds – or simple – majority vote…writes David Singer. Read more

Danon: ‘We don’t play defence anymore at the UN’

It is no secret that the United Nations has long been viewed as a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment. Read more

Through rapid raids, IDF’s special forces to play critical role in future war with Hezbollah

At the end of November, the Israeli military’s Commando Brigade held a secretive war exercise, which sheds light on how Israel is preparing new capabilities against Hezbollah and Hamas. Read more

Amid rising antisemitism in Europe, are Jews now safer in the East than the West?

The October attack on the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh has put a renewed spotlight on antisemitism in the United States, which has seen an uptick in recent years…writes Sean Savage/JNS. Read more

Hezbollah’s war on Israel takes precedence over the war on Bibi

Maybe you thought that the discovery of tunnels built by Hezbollah under the border between Lebanon and Israel would generate a full-scale debate about the deadly nature of the threat from the terror group and its Iranian masters…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

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