Shade Zahrai talks with Henry Greener

Shade Zahrai, an award-winning corporate strategist, career development expert for women, motivational speaker and life coach helps organizations navigate disruptions, inspires and motivates us in these times of uncertainty. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…WHO’s on first? Read more

Magen David Adom reconnects Holocaust survivors

Alongside the life-saving routine, and now in the wake of the national battle with the Coronavirus, MDA also operates a tracing unit for locating relatives, responsible for a large number of family reunions of Holocaust survivors and their families, with their relatives in Israel and around the world. Read more

Israel: Number of Coronavirus patients in severe condition declines

The number of patients suffering from Coronavirus (COVID-19) in severe condition and on respirators in Israel declined on Tuesday. Read more

I Heard your Voices

On Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, special remembrance activities took place on IDF army bases across Israel. Read more

Ins and outs of Israel’s unprecedented national emergency unity government

Israel’s 15-month political stalemate, which led to three election cycles within the course of a year, has come to a close with the signing of a unity government deal between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, and Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz. Read more

Let us remember what the survivors are unable to forget

Holocaust survivors do not need annual ceremonies to remind them of the Nazi atrocities that they endured or of the family members that Adolf Hitler’s henchmen slaughtered during World War II. No, those memories are just as inked in their hearts and minds as the numbers tattooed on their forearms. Read more

Palestinians celebrate International ‘Anti’-Women’s Day

The Palestinian Authority celebrated International Women’s Day last month by praising and honouring terrorists who murdered women. Read more

Decades after Holocaust, Jewish population has yet to recover

74 years after the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust which killed six million Jews ended, the Jewish population around the world has not recovered to its pre-1940 numbers, a special Yom HaShoah report published by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics shows. Read more

March of the Living ceremony on the Internet tomorrow

Although the 2020 March of the Living did not take place on Holocaust Memorial Day due to the Coronavirus world pandemic, around 10,000 people have participated in the organization’s virtual memorial plaque project during the last week. Read more

The Plague of Otherness (And How to Cure It)

The term “social distancing” has become the definitive buzzword to describe the advice to avoid close physical contact to contain the COVID-19 pandemic…writes Dovi Seldowitz. Read more

Netanyahu, Gantz ink deal to form new government after year-long political impasse

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz have signed a new coalition agreement to form a “national emergency government” ending a political deadlock that lasted more than a year. Read more

On Yom Hashoah “The Partisans’ Song”

Perth’s Eli Rabinowitz has produced an emotional video of the song which is emblematic of those Jewish partisans who fought those who perpetrated the Holocaust on their people. Read more

Yom HaShoah

Today is Yom HaShoah. Events have been cancelled but have been replaced digitally across Australia and New Zealand….this is the NSW commemoration under the auspices of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies in conjunction with The Jewish Museum and the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. Read more

Coronavirus vaccine in months? Israeli scientist awarded US patent for vaccine design

Professor Jonathan Gershoni of Tel Aviv University’s School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology was granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for his innovative vaccine design for the Corona family of viruses. Read more

The Triguboff Centre deals with Coronavirus challenge in The Negev

Established by The Triguboff Institute, Switch Centre has made necessary adjustments to their scope of work in order to assist the Bedouin minority which is disproportionally affected by the Corona crisis. Read more

A Coronavirus Zoom Q&A with The Technion

Join The Technion for a presentation and Q&A with Israeli scientist and entrepreneur Prof. Avi Schroeder who is working on a preventative drug for the Corona Virus by adapting a food additive designed for shrimp. Read more

Report: Gantz says he and Netanyahu are ‘on the brink’ of a unity deal

Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz has told associates over the weekend that he and incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are “on the brink” of a unity deal, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Saturday. Read more

Why are ten men needed for a minyan?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Torah music with an African touch

South African musician Jonathan Birin, one of the best known and admired names on the South African Jewish Music scene has created an innovative new album, ‘Simcha Africa’ (“Africa Joy”). Read more

Trump-hatred divides American Zionists 100 years after San Remo

Celebrations marking the 100^th Anniversary of the signing of the San Remo Resolution on 25 April 1920 by Britain, France, Italy and Japan will be marred by bitter confrontation between those American Zionists who support Jewish sovereignty being restored in 30% of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and those who don’t. Read more

‘Sadly unsurprisingly antisemitic’: Israel slams Iran for its state-sponsored antisemitic Coronavirus cartoon contest

Israel and an antisemitism watchdog have condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for launching an international cartoon contest on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that featured antisemitic and anti-Israel cartoons. Read more

On the other hand

We have just successfully navigated through a locked-down Passover and now face a still uncertain future. Read more

China’s hallowed status at the United Nations

If you are looking for an international institution that brazenly fawns over the world’s most despotic regimes regardless of how low they might sink on the moral scale, then the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) never fails to disappoint. Read more

‘Senseless statements’: IDF slams PA’s Coronavirus-related incitement, warns of consequences  

The IDF issued a stern condemnation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) over its utilization of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to incite against Israel, despite Israel’s close aid to the PA in its war against the virus and warned of repercussions. Read more

Worldwide name-reading campaign to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, when public gatherings have been banned in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak worldwide, Yad Vashem invites the public to participate in an international campaign to record themselves reciting the names of Holocaust victims, and share the video on social media using the hashtags #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames Read more

Call to ban public display of Nazi flags in NSW

NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has called on the NSW Berejiklian Government to undertake a formal investigation into ways to ban the public display of Nazi flags in NSW. Read more

Israel starts to ease restrictions

Yom HaShoah and Israel’s Independence Day will be held without attendees, but Israel is easing restrictions on exercise, praying and increasing the 15% limit of employees in workspace up to 30% and opening specific types of retail. Read more

The Sydney Friendship Circle is staying ahead of the curve

For Charlene Zulman, whose 17-year-old daughter Penny is a member of Sydney’s Friendship Circle, the disruption that social distancing would cause the family was a matter of considerable concern. Read more

A unique Holocaust commemoration in Sydney

Members of the community are invited to come together remotely tomorrow (Monday) at 7 pm to view the Yom Hashoah commemoration on the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies website – www.nswjbd.org. Read more

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