Senior Israeli defence official visits Australia, speaks to AIJAC

The head of Israel’s Political-Military Bureau at the Ministry of Defence, Zohar Palti, was recently in Australia. Read more

The Curious Case of Israel’s Invisible Election

With the great election redo of 2019 less than two weeks away Israelis across the political spectrum are meeting up in living rooms, pubs and coffee shops around the country to discuss the great issues of the day…not. Read more

He survived Bergen-Belsen and the 1972 Munich Olympics and still competes

Prof. Shaul Ladany is both a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in which he was an inmate for six months and of the terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in which he participated as a 50 kilometer race walker. This  week marks the 47th anniversary of the attack. Read more

Neither fake nor fiction

We happen to be living at a time when the deluge of news makes it very difficult to sort out the fake from the real facts. Read more

Trump open to meeting with Iran’s president at upcoming UN General Assembly

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated that he was open to meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this month at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Read more

The power of a dream: Israel’s new solar plant lights the way to a bright future

Driving along the long stretch of Highway 6, deep in Israel’s Negev Desert, you could easily think you are seeing a mirage: thousands of giant mirrors all facing the sun. Read more

White Australia has a Black History

Cairns author Barbara Miller has just launched her latest book called White Australia Has A Black History: William Cooper and First Nations Peoples’ Political Activism. Read more

Sad success

Last month, 19-yr-old Dvir Schnerb was severely wounded close to the Binyamin community of Dolev. His sister Rena was murdered and his father moderately wounded. This week he was released from the hospital and completed his EMT training at Magen David Adom. Read more

Doron Lazarus appointed Moriah Foundation Director

Sydney’s Moriah College Foundation has appointed Doron Lazarus as its new Foundation Director. Read more

UIA-HA partnership will help heal Israel’s Ethiopian community

Only 11% of Ethiopian Jewish students reach university in Israel, compared to 42% of their counterparts in the general population.  This worrying statistic is behind a ground-breaking agreement between the United Israel Appeal (UIA) and Hadassah Australia (HA) that will deliver up to 20, five-year nursing scholarships to this marginalised community. Read more

In remembering 1929 Hebron massacre, top Israeli leaders visit … and make history

We are not strangers in Hebron, and we will stay here forever!” were the climactic remarks made on Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an official state ceremony at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron commemorating the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Jewish massacre. Read more

The first vote cast

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand has cast the first vote of the upcoming elections due to be held on September 17. Read more

What Hanan Ashrawi really believes and says – in Arabic

Hanan Ashrawi, a veteran Palestinian leader and a PLO Executive Committee member, has recently made the headlines following her organization’s connection to the planned tour in Israel of Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Read more

Moriah gets a special visit

The Engagement & Intervention Unit of the NSW Police Counter Terrorism & Special Tactics Command facilitate positive interactions between emergency services and young people through a special program. They recently visited Moriah College in Sydney. Read more

Trump writes off West Bank and Gaza as separate country

The US State Department web site has removed the West Bank and Gaza (“disputed territories”) from its list of “Countries and Areas”– signalling that it no longer regards these disputed territories as potentially comprising a separate country – in addition to  Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Read more

A high-level leaders’ course named after Jeremy Spinak

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has launched its inaugural Jeremy Spinak Young Leaders Program. Read more

A community stalwart perishes in Sydney fire

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Sep-17 Melbourne: Cabaret

The People’s Choir Cabaret Soiree Read more

‘Nobody really knew what happened or what would happen next’: Israeli farmers recall the tense moments during Hezbollah’s attack

The children at Kibbutz Malkiya on the border with Lebanon went to the stable to feed horses on Sunday, on their first day of school, when they were suddenly disturbed by barrages of rockets launched by Hezbollah terrorists from across the border. Read more

IDF foils Hezbollah’s risky attacks and its attempts to secure guided missiles

Hezbollah launched a dangerous attack on an Israel Defense Forces’ base in northern Israel on Sunday—an attack that could have resulted in a rapid deterioration into a larger conflict. Read more

Something completely different: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Although Geoffrey Lancaster is a world-renowned performer on the fortepiano, it was risky to devote one of the four piano series recitals to a period instrument. Read more

MPs join Friendship Walk

NSW State Liberal Member for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton joined local residents, volunteers, family and friends of Sydney Friendship Circle for the 10^th anniversary annual Walk. Read more

Netanyahu once again vows to annex settlements in Judea and Samaria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday his earlier pledge to annex all the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Read more

Bahraini Foreign Minister backs Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon

Israel received surprising support for its retaliatory strikes in Lebanon after the Hezbollah terror organization attacked IDF targets on Sunday from Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, who said that Lebanon was to blame for the situation. Read more

IDF remains on high alert in north in expectation of another Hezbollah attack

Israel’s security forces along the northern border with Lebanon remain on high alert after the Hezbollah terror organization carried out an attack on IDF targets on Sunday, and in anticipation of another pending attack. Read more

What happens when a good deal ends up a bad deal?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Blowback. Read more

A present to Leonard. and to us all.

On September 21st, 2019 Leonard Cohen would have been 85.  I have a mixed feelings about this math. From one side, one feels like Leonard always was there with us. Or rather that it is us who were always next to him. Read more

Back home in the Shetlands, a taste of nostalgia and singular Jewish life

It was SRO, standing-room only—an amazing turnout. Young and old, locals and tourists, poured into the venue as part of my travels “back home.” They came, anxious to listen to my book talk and memories growing up as part of the only Jewish family on the remote Shetland Islands. The Greenwald name was respected throughout the Christian, G-d-fearing community. They came not just to hear a talk on kosher cuisine (mixed in with a dollop of nostalgia) but to share memories, still vivid, from more than 50 years ago…writes Ethel G. Hofman. Read more

Incentivized emigration: An idea whose time has come?

Past attempts to encourage Palestinians to voluntary emigrate have always failed, so time and effort would be better invested in reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.” — Yossi Beilin, former Israeli government minister and a principal architect of the Oslo Accords, Al Monitor, Aug. 26, 2019. Read more

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