What happened to the Israeli left?

Knesset member Ofer Shelah of Israel’s Blue and White Party is the architect of his party’s current efforts to form a government with the support of the Joint Arab List. Read more

Lie back and listen to Ludwig: a didn’t-happen music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Instead of arriving at the Sydney Town Hall next Wednesday night to hear the SSO, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, organ, and four soloists perform Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, I’ll probably be waiting for an Uber-eat paper bag to arrive at home. Read more

AIJAC reacts to arrest of man on terrorism charges

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has welcomed the news of the arrest of a man plotting a terrorist attack in NSW. Read more

Antisemitic man charged with terrorism offences

A known antisemitic man in southern NSW has been charged with terrorism offences. Read more

Can you bury a cremated person’s ashes in a Jewish cemetery?

Ask the rabbi… Read more

Joint List unanimously backs Gantz for Israeli premiership

All 15 lawmakers of the Joint List alliance of Arab and Arab-majority parties on Sunday recommended Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as Israel’s next prime minister, marking the first time that an Arab party has endorsed anyone for prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin in 1992. Read more

Opera Australia: the Sydney summer season is over

In accordance with the federal government’s escalation of the coronavirus precautionary measures, effectively banning all static public gatherings of more than 500 people in an effort to limit the spread of the virus, Opera Australia is cancelling the remainder of its Sydney summer season. Read more

Israel sends testing kits to Gaza

The IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) delivered 200 testing kits for detecting Coronavirus, another step Israel has taken to help the Palestinian Authority (PA) combat the spread of the virus. Read more

Israel enters almost full coronavirus lockdown

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday night that Israel was entering an almost full lockdown to stave off the spread of Coronavirus. Read more

On the other hand

Israel is in lockdown with most flights from and into the country cancelled and anyone returning from overseas required to self-quarantine for two weeks. Read more

Henry Greener meets Deb Filler

Henry Greener discovers the many roles DebFiller has filled in her Brilliant Career as a writer, performer, actor, comedian and musician. Read more

Governments advertising was supporting the hosting of terrorist manifesto

The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has put an end to advertising from the State Governments in NSW, Victoria and South Australia appeared alongside an antisemitic terrorist manifesto. Read more

Coronavirus: Ben-Gurion University joins the battle

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz has launched the BGU Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force to harness the University’s brainpower and ingenuity to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Coronavirus forces the The Hebrew University online only

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will delay the opening of the spring semester by one week to prepare for remote-learning options. Read more

Memorial event for Christchurch

The Ark Centre’s Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann together with faith and community leaders marked the first anniversary of the Christchurch massacre at the Islamic Council of Victoria headquarters in Melbourne’s CBD. Read more

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial closed for two weeks due to coronavirus

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial will be closed to all visitors for two weeks to help contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the museum said in a March 12 statement. Read more

Israeli doctors offer online advice to those quarantined in China and elsewhere

Israeli doctors are giving webinars to quarantined COVID-19 patients in China and elsewhere in a project organized by Innonation, an Israeli innovation platform for international collaboration. Read more

Iranian cleric allows buying potential Israeli vaccine, ‘if there is no substitute’

A prominent Iranian cleric said this week that would be acceptable for the country’s citizens to use a coronavirus vaccine developed by Israel—if “there is no substitute.” Read more

British lawmakers demand changes in Palestinian, UNRWA textbooks

Members of the British Parliament have said they want answers as to why textbooks used to “radicalize” children in schools run by the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) remain unchanged. Read more

An unexpected crisis debunks the Trump-Netanyahu analogy

Leaders of democracies serve a multitude of purposes. Most people say they crave moral leadership. But what most voters really want is someone who will stand up for their views and their values, and to implement policies they support. And if they have to choose between morals and partisanship, they invariably choose the latter, whether on the left or the right. Read more

Pandemic panic a breeding ground for the virus of Jew-hatred

Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in the period when the bubonic plague swept through Europe from 1347 to 1351. Read more

‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African continent

The BDS movement, whose goal is for rest of the world to quarantine the State of Israel as though it was the coronavirus, is undergoing a “rebranding” in its South African heartland. Read more

Davening in the shadow of Corona

Following the 24 hour closure of a Synagogue in Melbourne the Rabbinical Council of Australia and New Zealand (RCANZ) has received inquiries on what precautions should be taken for davening in a Minyan and congregating in Shules. Read more

Take your phone for a walk around Sydney

A Walk of Jewish Sydney‘s mobile app is aimed to revolutionise Jewish tourism to Sydney. Read more

Rivlin opens second Coronavirus call centre.

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has inaugurated the new national emergency call centre jointly run by Magen David Adom (MDA) and the IDF Homefront Command in Ramle as part of the efforts to deal with the Coronavirus. Read more

Delaying the inevitable

Trying to prevent events which are spiralling out of control from actually happening is an exercise in futility. Read more

Will a microbe seal the fate of Iran’s virulent regime?

The point about events that catch us unawares is that we are never prepared for the unexpected to happen. Who would have thought that the entire world would suddenly be destabilized by one microbe? Read more

Amid new virus cases in Israel, synagogue restrictions, nationwide school closures

Coronavirus cases in Israel topped 100 on Thursday, with an emergency-room doctor at the top-rated Sheba Medical Center contracting the illness, and the chief rabbinate issuing new directives for conducting prayers. Read more

Holocaust memorials set in pavement in Berlin in memory of Jews deported

Nearly 50 Holocaust stone memorials were recently set into the pavement around a major German publisher’s new main office in Berlin in honour of the dozens of Jews deported from the city in the 1940s. Read more

Yeshivah Centre to be reassessed on Sunday

Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre including services and the Mikvah will be closed until Sunday when the situation will be considered following Coronvirus being detected in staff member returning from the U.S. Read more

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