Trump reverses Obama-UN treachery on West Bank and East Jerusalem
June 19, 2019 by David Singer
President Trump’s decision to back Israel’s claims to sovereignty in the West Bank and Jerusalem has resurrected America’s commitment to the Jewish people made by President Bush and Congress in 2004 after that commitment had been subsequently repudiated by President Obama in the last month of his Presidency in December 2018. Read more
Cambridge enables Malaysian Prime Minister to spread antisemitism unchecked
The Cambridge Union debating society hosted Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, a vocal anti-Semite, at the academic venue on Sunday, during which he reiterated his antisemitic and Holocaust-denying views while going unchallenged by the audience. Read more
Israeli public responds with rage to Arab’s vicious assault on 7-year-old Israeli girl
June 18, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israeli leaders and large segments of the public responded with shock, dismay, and anger to the news of an Arab who viciously assaulted a seven-year-old Israeli girl. Read more
Inter-Faith seminar Melbourne
June 18, 2019 by Community newsdesk
An Inter-Faith Leaders’ Seminar has been held at the Leo Baeck Centre, East Kew, as part of the 70th Anniversary celebrations. Read more
Sara Netanyahu signs plea bargain and will pay fine, bringing fraud case to a close
June 18, 2019 by JNS
Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was convicted on Sunday of taking unfair advantage of a mistake after confessing to the offence as part of a plea bargain struck last week regarding alleged misuse of state funds to hire catering for the Prime Minister’s Residence. Read more
Iran is dragging the Middle East into a dangerous standoff
June 18, 2019 by Yaakov Lappin
In recent weeks, Iran and its proxies have begun operating under a new directive best described as a policy of controlled escalation. Still, the potential for miscalculation and regionwide conflict has grown considerably. Read more
Todd Sampson films Gaza March of Return
June 18, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Popular TV identity Todd Sampson has taken his Body Hack team into Gaza for the opening program in the Network 10 series. Read more
Berlin’s Jewish Museum director resigns
June 18, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum has resigned following a tweet from the museum linking to Israeli academics who criticised the German parliament’s resolution condemning the BDS movement as being antisemitic
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Medieval Jewish ritual bath beneath a church in Sicily
June 18, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israeli scholars have announced the discovery of a Hebrew inscription on the wall of a medieval Jewish ritual bath located deep underground beneath the Church of St. Philip the Apostle in Syracuse, Sicily. Read more
My Sack Full of Memories: a book review by Geoffrey Zygier
June 18, 2019 by Geoffrey Zygier
People are motivated to bare their lives in public for different reasons. Read more
WOW weekend
June 17, 2019 by Community newsdesk
Sydney’s The Great Synagogue’s ‘Women of Worth’ WOW Weekend is back to WOW the women of Sydney. Read more
“Amen”….why did I say that?
June 17, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Diary of a Young Girl = Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine
June 17, 2019 by David Zwartz
The commemoration of what would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, had she survived Bergen-Belsen, was a double event for the Wellington Jewish community. Read more
Feintooner
June 17, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon from Feintooner…Smoke Signals. Read more
Ramat Trump
June 17, 2019 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
President Donald Trump has thanked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel for naming a town in the Golan Heights after him. Read more
Israel Institute wants answers over distorted view of Israel by Immigration NZ
June 17, 2019 by IINZ
Israel Institute of New Zealand co-director, Ashley Church, is seeking a full retraction and an investigation following the publication of an Immigration New Zealand ‘fact sheet’ which contained politicised distortions of the truth and totally erased Israel from the map. Read more
250,000 march in largest Gay Pride Parade in the Middle East
June 17, 2019 by Margaux Stelman
250,000 people from around the world gathered in Tel Aviv to march in the largest pride parade in the Middle East. Read more
World-wide communities show support to Romania
June 17, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Senior professionals representing Jewish communities from more than 50 countries have chosen Bucharest in which to hold their annual meeting to support the 5,000 Jews still living in Romania. Read more
Toronto becomes first city in new Jewish service initiative
June 16, 2019 by JNS
Former rabbi of Sydney’s Morial College Rabbi Benji Levy, CEO of Mosaic United, a partnership between the State of Israel and the global Jewish community, recently met with leaders at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to formalize the Jewish community’s commitment of $1 million to the “Shalom Corps” Jewish service initiative. Read more
China or the United States? Israel needs to pick one
June 16, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Contrary to the myths cherished by some American Jews and many non-Jewish sympathizers, Israel is not the 51st state. Read more
Hamas endorsement of UNRWA elections underscores the agency’s inherent flaws
June 16, 2019 by Eliana Rudee - JNS.org
Following the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) union elections in Gaza on April 24 and the publishing of the results mid-May, various terror groups, including the Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hamas, have endorsed the new leadership of UNRWA’s union of teachers and administrators. Read more
Queen’s Birthday Awards: meet two honourees
June 16, 2019 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Henry Greener talks with Les Kausman and Vivien Brass. Read more
Save a Child’s Heart
June 16, 2019 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Henry Greener interviews Hannah Wollan is the Executive Director of Save A Child’s Heart, an NFP established in 1995 at the Wolfson Medical Centre in Holon, Israel. A video presentation. Read more
Jul-11 Melbourne: Russian Jews adapt their identity in Melbourne
June 16, 2019 by J-Wire
“From atheists to traditional? Identity of Russian-speaking Jews in Melbourne”. Read more
Courage to Care visits Darwin
June 16, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Students of Taminmin College in Humpty Doo, Darwin were the fortunate beneficiaries of an unexpected visit by a B’nai B’rith Courage to Care Victoria program team. Read more
On the other hand
June 16, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
Like the endless blue skies and soaring temperatures of an Israeli summer, the daily dose of amazing positive achievements makes us aware that good news does occur even if you do not read or hear about in your local media. Read more
Is antisemitism becoming mainstream? Experts see alarming trend in media, campus and public life
June 16, 2019 by Josh Hasten - JNS
Moderating a panel in Jerusalem this week titled “The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism: The Media, BDS and Celebrated Bigotry,” David Hazony, executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund, analyzed the issue right off the bat: “What you are seeing on [North American college] campuses is only a thin slice of the antisemitic beast that has emerged in our public life around the world in the last six months, in the last year.” Read more
One of the last Sugihara visa recipients in conversation
June 15, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Marcel Weyland, one of the last living recipient of a ‘Sugihara visa’ living in Sydney, will appear in conversation with Holocaust expert Professor Konrad Kwiet at Limmud Oz. Read more
In British Parliament, IDF reservists share human-rights abuses by Palestinians
Some 20 British legislators and 50 guests packed a hall in the British Parliament this week to hear, for the first time, Israel Defence Forces’ reservists speak about the terrorism and rampant human-rights abuses Palestinians perpetuate on their own citizens that they had witnessed in Judea and Samaria. Read more
Gaza rocket hits yeshivah in Sderot in second attack of day
A rocket launched by Hamas in Gaza struck a building in the southern Israeli town of Sderot late on Thursday, causing damage but no injuries. Read more
