Damn the other races, want to keep my country white

Jewish organisations have expressed concerns about a hate-fest musical festival scheduled to be held in Melbourne next month. Read more

AFL briefed on Jewish concerns

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Netanyahu and Trump hatch plan for a Jordan exclave in West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s last-minute election pledge to apply Israeli sovereignty in parts of the West Bank could possibly see a large part of the remainder of the West Bank being offered to Jordan as an exclave in direct negotiations between Jordan and Israel. Read more

Israel goes to vote, again

Israel’s citizens today went to the ballots to vote for Israel’s 22^nd Knesset and the country’s leadership for the next four years, for the second time this year. Read more

The elections that decided the future of the conflict

On the eve of the second Israeli election of 2019, there is no shortage of apocalyptic rhetoric about the potential consequences of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election. Read more

Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ following attack on Saudi oil field

Tensions in the Middle East soared on Sunday, with U.S. President Donald Trump warning on Twitter that the United States “has reason to believe we know” who is responsible for a crippling attack on a Saudi oil field on Saturday and is “locked and loaded pending verification.” Read more

BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti to speak at UK Labour Party Conference festival

Palestinian activist and co-founder of the BDS movement Omar Barghouti will speak on a panel at an event taking place alongside the British Labour Party Conference. Read more

Sep-22 Sydney: Torah celebration

Two Sefer Torahs are to be completed and paraded to their home at the Harry Triguboff Centre. Read more

Grandparents Day features Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah photos from Emanuel School’s recent Grandparents Day. The students took part in various Rosh HaShanah activities with their grandparents. Read more

Bargain Bazaar opens Sydney Pop-Up

B’nai B’rith Sydney’s op shop, Bargain Bazaar, has opened a pop-up shop for used furniture in Surry Hills Shopping Village.

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Netanyahu calls for emergency election committee meeting on ‘voter fraud’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for an emergency meeting with the head of the Central Election Committee, Supreme Court Judge Hanan Melcer, to discuss possible voter fraud in this week’s election. Read more

Analysis: Infighting within political blocs dominates days before elections

Israel (Sunday): With only two days ahead of the elections, the two major political parties, Likud and Blue and White, are attempting to lure voters from their own political blocs, in an effort to take the lead and form a government after the elections. Read more

Intel unveils ‘smartest building in the world’ in Israel

Intel has unveiled its new development centre in Petah Tikvah, which it considers to be the “smartest building in the world.” Read more

Ahead of Deal of the Century, cabinet approves establishment of community of Mevo’ot Yeriho

The Israeli government on Sunday approved a proposal put forward by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish the community of Mevo’ot Yericho, just two days before the elections and after he announced last week he would declare Israeli sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, if reelected. Read more

Talking about Yom Kippur

Rabbi Daniel Rabin from South Caulfield Shule shares his inspiring thoughts on the meaning of forgiveness and other aspects of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement…a video interview with Henry Greener. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Diplomacy, duplicity and diplunacy Read more

A Rosh HaShanah prelude

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes about Rosh Hashanah…. Read more

Strong support for Victorian MP’s Friends of Israel Lunch

A record number of Victorian Members of Parliament joined the Parliamentary Friends of Israel Co-Convenors, Paul Hamer MP and David Southwick MP, the Jewish Community Council of Victoria and Zionism Victoria for the annual Rosh Hashanah lunch at Parliament House recently. Read more

Bennett reveals alleged details of soon-to-be released Trump Mideast peace plan

Yamina candidate Naftali Bennett revealed on Sunday what he claimed were the details on how the long-awaited U.S. Mideast peace plan would divide the West Bank between Israel and the Palestinians. The alleged plan, which Bennett revealed on social media complete with a map, gives over 90% of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

Israel welcomes Trump’s announcement on advancement of ‘historic’ defence treaty

Israel has warmly welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to explore a Mutual Defense Treaty with Israel, after the elections in Israel, that “would further anchor the tremendous alliance” between the two countries. Read more

Secret diary of Jewish teen killed by Nazis to publish after nearly 70 years in bank vault

The Holocaust diary of Polish Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel will finally be published after being sealed away in a New York bank vault for nearly 70 years, CNN reported. Read more

On domes and drones

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” (“The more things change, the more they are the same.”) — Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French novelist (1849) Read more

Boltonism must not be allowed to disappear

John Bolton’s departure from the Trump administration should have had the left cheering from the rafters. Read more

Critics deny Jerusalem’s past and its future

Its critics have accused Israel of a lot of terrible things over the course of its 71 years of existence, but The New York Times has now added one more to the list that will particularly resonate with intellectuals. Read more

Limmud NZ a great success

Limmud NZ was a wild success in both Auckland and Wellington in two recent consecutive weeks. Read more

On the other hand

Between the growing threats from a nuclear cheating Iran, rockets from Hamas controlled Gaza and increasing terror plots from Hezbollah one can be forgiven for believing that good news has been banished from the Israeli scene. Read more

Israel rejects report it was spying on White House

Israel on Thursday denied a news report that it has been tapping the cell phones of White House officials. Read more

Are International Human Rights stifling people’s freedom?

What’s striking about the international community’s reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge to apply sovereignty to Jewish communities in the West Bank and the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to revoke the autonomy of Indian-administered Kashmir is the sound of crickets. Read more

Trump administration assures ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran in force

The Trump administration assured on Thursday that its “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran will continue, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin amid mixed signals that U.S. President Donald Trump could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani without preconditions and could even relax some sanctions in exchange for negotiations—both possibilities the secretary rejected. Read more

More than 100 Jewish lawyers in Texas request new trial for Jewish death-row inmate

More than 100 Jewish attorneys in Texas sent to the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin last week a 13-page brief requesting a new trial for a Jewish death-row inmate scheduled to be executed on Oct. 10, following claims that he was sentenced by a racist judge. Read more

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