As mandate passes to Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz, all eyes now turn to Mandelblit
October 24, 2019 by Dov Lipman - JNS
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the process of trying to form a government 28 days ago, he had 55 Knesset seats supporting him—32 from his Likud Party, nine from Shas, eight from United Torah Judaism and six from Jewish Home/New Right. Read more
Australian film award for Anna Kaplan
October 24, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Natalie Miller Fellowship (NMF) is thrilled has announced on the gala eve of the 2019 Australian International Movie Convention that Australian producer, Anna Kaplan, has received this year’s Natalie Miller Fellowship. Read more
JPs get thanks for 50 years service
October 24, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Member for Vaucluse, Gabrielle Upton MP today congratulated seven Justice of the Peace from the Vaucluse electorate in Sydney for their 50 years of service to the community. Read more
Do you believe in heaven and hell?
October 24, 2019 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi… Read more
Theodor Herzl Award for Nikki Haley
October 24, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder will honour former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, H.E. Nikki Haley, on November 6 with the WJC’s annual Theodor Herzl Award, which recognizes outstanding individuals who work to promote Herzl’s ideals for a safer, more tolerant world for the Jewish people. Read more
President Reuven Rivlin formally tasks Gantz
October 24, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin this evening last night tasked head of Kachol Lavan MK Benny Gantz, with forming a government. Read more
Feintooner
October 24, 2019 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon….Hot Potato. Read more
The beauty of sadness: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
October 24, 2019 by Fraser Beath McEwing
While concert programs are usually eclectic, so that everybody gets at least something they like, last night’s SSO offering in the Masters Series was unashamedly emotional from start to finish. And I, for one, loved it, not just for the program but the quality of the performance. Read more
Israel Police realizes dream of special needs child, makes him cop for a day
October 24, 2019 by TPS
Jamal Da’abas, nine-years-old from Kfar Nahaf in northern Israel who has a childhood disability and requires the help of a wheelchair, has always dreamt of becoming a police officer. Read more
Dassi and Nicole turn to the PM for assistance
October 23, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Dassi Erlich and her sister Nicole Meyer have met with Australian prime minister Scott Morrison to seek assistance in expediting the extradition of their former school principal Malka Leifer who is facing 74 charges of child sexual abuse. Read more
The grave of Australia’s first detective was consecrated in Sydney 151 years after burial
October 23, 2019 by Henry Benjamin
Israel Chapman, known to all those who knew him as Izzy, was Australia’s first detective and after a painstaking search, his unmarked grave was located in Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery where his brand-new headstone was consecrated today. Read more
Victorian Department of Education should protect children in its care
October 23, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The ECAJ has called on the Victorian Department of Education to protect children in its care following a 16-yr-old being charged with stalking offences after allegedly verbally abusing a Jewish mother whose 12-yr-old son was forced to kiss the foot of a fellow student. Read more
Human Rights Award final berth for Philip
October 22, 2019 by Henry Benjamin
Philip Feinstein is a musician and long-time advocate founded Music for Refugees, a self-funded music and literature program designed to ease the burden of life in Australian detention centres and is one of five candidates to be awarded the individual gong for his work. Read more
Netanyahu gives up – Gantz to attempt to form government
October 22, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he is returning the mandate to form the government to the president because he was unable to do. Read more
Germany’s rising far-right threat
October 20, 2019 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
On the night of June 2, a German politician by the name of Walter Lübcke was found lying dead in the garden of his home in Wolfhagen — a village on the outskirts of the city of Kassel in the centre of the country — with a gunshot wound to the head. Read more
When the dust settles in Syria …
October 20, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
To speak about Kurds has suddenly become a cry in favour of human rights and self-determination by the Western press, and rightly so: The assault they are suffering is lethal and may become genocidal. Read more
Israel to send biggest delegation ever to 2020 Olympics
October 20, 2019 by JNS
Israel is set to send to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo its largest delegation of athletes ever. Read more
Walt Secord backs posthumous promotion of Sir John Monash to Field Marshal
October 20, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has thrown his support behind a plan to posthumously elevate Sir John Monash to Field Marshal. Read more
Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on project commemorating Jewish life in Lithuania
October 20, 2019 by JNS
Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in Vilnius, Lithuania, last week on a project depicting Jewish life before World War II. Read more
Still no Kosher food for David Cyprys
October 20, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Vote recount could possibly end Israel’s electoral morass
October 20, 2019 by David Singer
Israel’s President Rivlin is due to make a decision on October 24 on whether to extend for another 14 days the mandate he granted to Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel’s next Government. Read more
Beyond the chorus of indignation
October 20, 2019 by Efraim Inbar
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw American soldiers stationed in northeastern Syria from the Turkish border has been met across the board by a chorus of moral indignation. It has been termed “a betrayal of the Kurds” or an “abandonment of allies.” Read more
Dave Sharma tells federal parliament the frustration in extraditing Malka Leifer
October 18, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has told the federal parliament the story of Malka Leifer and the long, long battle to have her extradited from Israel to Melbourne. Read more
Cycling Tel Aviv – Israel’s largest cycling event
October 18, 2019 by TPS
Cycling Tel Aviv – Israel’s largest cycling event. Thousands participating this morning. Read more
Israeli journalists recite ‘Kaddish’ for end of Netanyahu’s Rule on live television
October 18, 2019 by Arye Green -TPS
Oded Ben-Ami and Amnon Abramovich, two of Israel’s top journalists, on Wednesday prayed for the end of the Netanyahu era while broadcasting live on Israel’s Channel 12, reciting part of the Jewish prayer “Kaddish,” which is traditionally recited while mourning. Read more
Friedman: Trump plan will not evict Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria
October 18, 2019 by JNS
The U.S. administration will not call for the evacuation of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria under the much-anticipated Mideast peace plan, according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday. Read more
Former concentration-camp guard stands trial in Germany
A former concentration-camp guard is facing trial in Germany in what may be one of the country’s last trials of Nazi war criminals. Read more
From Congress to classrooms: Reframing the Israel narrative
October 18, 2019 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Concern about resurgent antisemitism has been at fever-pitch among Diaspora Jews for years. Read more
Journalists report back
October 18, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
More than 300 community members heard reports by eight senior journalists who recently toured Israel in a delegation led by the CEO of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Vic Alhadeff. Read more
Sin? Not such a big deal
October 18, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
Next week we will restart the annual Torah reading cycle and that always reminds me of Sin! Adam and Eve and all that. Read more
