Roy Nissany becomes Israel’s first Formula One driver
January 16, 2020 by TPS-IL
Israeli professional sports car driver Roy Nissany will become the official test driver for the UK-based Williams Group, making him Israel’s first Formula One driver. Read more
Next Level Guest for UIA 2020 Campaign
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
UIA Australia’s 2020 Campaign will be taken to the next level as we celebrate the incredible milestone of Keren Hayesod-UIA’s 100 years of supporting the People of Israel with a very special guest. Read more
Down she comes
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Nazi flag flying in the town of Beulah in north-west Victoria has been brought down following a joint push by neighbours and local police. Read more
Israeli Right does not seek overthrow of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy
January 15, 2020 by David Singer
The claim that: “The Israeli right has no solution for civil rights for Palestinians after annexation, except for overthrowing Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy” – is a canard that must be totally rejected. Read more
Feb-02 9:35 pm SBS-World Movies: The Counterfeiter
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire
Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is an expert Jewish counterfeiter enjoying the good life until he’s sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Read more
Shemot and the world around us
January 15, 2020 by Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann
In the midst of World War II whilst stationed in Kaunas, Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defied orders and distributed an estimated 6,000 visas to Jewish refugees, ensuring their escape and survival from Europe. Read more
March 15 Kangaroo Valley NSW: Holocaust cultural connection with Aboriginal history
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS JEWISH COMMUNITY Read more
Present Tense by Natalie Conyer: a book review by Geoffrey Zygier
January 15, 2020 by Geoffrey Zygier
In Bereishit, the first reading of the Torah, Eve picks a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, despite the Almighty’s specific prohibition. Read more
Israeli skier makes history by winning Israel’s first Winter Youth Olympics medals
January 15, 2020 by JNS
Israeli alpine skier Noa Szollos, 17, won Israel its first medals in the Winter Youth Olympic Games when she competed in the competition recently this month in Lausanne, Switzerland. Read more
Co-founder of education site named JTA editor in chief
January 15, 2020 by JNS
Philissa Cramer, a co-founder and editor at large of the education news organization Chalkbeat, has been named editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, announced the wire service yesterday. Read more
Leifer case stalls again
January 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In spite of a call to expedite the extradition hearing to return Malka Leifer to Melbourne where she is facing 74 charges for child sexual abuse, a Jerusalem court has accepted her defence argument to cross-examine psychiatrists who have found her fit to face court. Read more
A Nazi flag flies in Victoria and there is no way to bring it down
January 14, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A woman who has German ancestry is flying a Nazi flag in her front garden in her home in the regional town of Beulah in Victoria. Read more
John Bell’s Havana colours bring extra delight To Carmen: an opera review by Victor Grynberg
January 14, 2020 by Victor Grynberg
George Bizet died tragically at only 37 years of age, after 33 mixed-reviewed performances of his Spanish-themed opera Carmen. Read more
Lord Polak: British taxpayer dollars funding Palestinian ‘pay-for-slay’ terror campaign
January 14, 2020 by Eliana Rudee - JNS.org
“Israel is being singled out ‘with nauseating frequency,’ to borrow a phrase, and we are joining in,” said Lord Baron Stuart Polak, president of Conservative Friends of Israel, in a House of Lords speech on Jan. 7. Read more
Enough with the Trump and Netanyahu analogies
January 14, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
In the coming weeks, a U.S. Senate trial of President Donald Trump on impeachment charges is looming. Read more
Blaming antisemitism on capitalism
January 14, 2020 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
It is progress of sorts. This week, one of the leading magazines of the American left published an article that took the phenomenon of antisemitism seriously. Read more
Israeli fighter jets damaged by flooding after record rainfall
January 14, 2020 by JNS
Eight Israeli F-16 fighter jets were damaged by flooding at Hatzor air force base in the country’s south following last week’s extreme rainfall, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday. Read more
Is it OK to throw a divorce party?
January 14, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the Rabbi. Read more
#WeRemember
January 14, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The World Jewish Congress has launched its fourth annual #WeRemember campaign to combat antisemitism and all forms of hatred, genocide and xenophobia. Read more
Israel requests proceedings against Malka Leifer be expedited
January 13, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Director of the Department of International Affairs, Office of the State Attorney, Ministry of Justice has submitted a request to Judge Chana Lomp of the Jerusalem District Court asking that the extradition proceedings against Malka Leifer be expedited. Read more
Left-wing parties unite ahead of elections
January 13, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The left-wing Labor-Gesher and Meretz political parties announced today that they will run jointly as one political entity in the upcoming March elections for the 23rd Knesset. Read more
Melbourne’s Jews of Pride
January 13, 2020 by J-Wire Staff
The biggest ever Jews of Pride contingent will come together at this year’s Midsumma Pride March in Melbourne. Read more
Netanyahu visits Nahariya
January 13, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has toured Nahariya where last week a man drowned after rescuing passengers trapped in a flooded car. Read more
Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Iranian protests make strange bedfellows. Read more
Iranians chant ‘not Gaza, not Lebanon, our hearts for Iran alone’
January 12, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Iranians took to the street on Saturday night and protested the country’s downing of Ukraine’s flight 752 early Wednesday which killed all passengers and crew, and called for the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Total of 2.3 million people visited Auschwitz in 2019, setting new record
January 12, 2020 by JNS
A record 2.32 million people visited the sites of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz and Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Poland last year, the Auschwitz Memorial announced recently. Read more
New Israeli laser system to become latest defence layer against rockets
January 12, 2020 by Yaakov Lappin
Israel’s Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday that its Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) has made a dramatic breakthrough in the world of laser weapons technology. Read more
Oppose Iran sanctions, but support BDS against Israel?
January 12, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
The rising tide of Jew-hatred that is sweeping around the globe is no laughing matter. So the idea of having a vote to determine who is the “Antisemite of the Year” may strike some as more of a publicity stunt than a sober attempt to deal with the problem. Read more
Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death – a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
January 12, 2020 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
In receiving this book, it brought back to me two issues. Read more
Antisemitism
January 12, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
The Bible says that poverty will never cease from the earth. Sadly, hatred and prejudice will never cease either. Some hatreds are more widespread and persistent than others. Of these cultural and religious hatreds, antisemitism has always been the most persistent and widespread. Read more
