BDS co-founder: ‘If Israel finds a cure for coronavirus, no problem to use it’

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, said in a video on Sunday on Facebook that if Israel discovers a cure for coronavirus (COVID-19), then cooperation with the Jewish state is acceptable. Read more

Pakistan rearrests four men acquitted in Daniel Pearl murder case

The four men acquitted in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan have been rearrested and will remain in custody pending prosecutors appealing the ruling in the country’s Supreme Court, announced Pakistan’s interior ministry on Friday. Read more

First of 11 planes bringing vital medical supplies from China to Israel touches down

The first in a convoy of 11 El Al planes carrying tons of critical medical equipment to Israel from China touched down at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Monday morning, as the nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Moselmane resigns as assistant President of the NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council

NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has welcomed and long-term anti-Israel activist and Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane’s resignation as Assistant President of the NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council over his “extremely stupid” pro-Wuhan COVID-19 comments. Read more

Air train delivering millions of items of medical equipment on way from China to Israel

An airlift of 11 aircraft is delivering millions of items of essential medical equipment from China to Israel, including masks, protective gear, and ventilators. Read more

Victorian Jewish community update

We all know someone who will be spending Pesach alone this year. Read more

Kosher & Kosher for Passover for people in mandatory isolation in Sydney CBD hotels

Sydney’s Jewish House has been working closely with the NSW State Government over the past week as part of their COVID-19 Crisis Response Plan to facilitate access KosherLePesach foods for people in isolation in hotels. Read more

How can we say “shehecheyanu” at this time?

How can we begin Pesach this year with the “Shehecheyanu” blessing?  Ask the Rabbi. Read more

A Passover with a difference

Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese sends his Pesach message to Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Jewish House partners with Lifeline for Pesach

Jewish House has today announced a partnership with Lifeline’s Harbour to Hawkesbury branch which will extend across NSW to provide additional counselling support to people in the Jewish community distressed in the lead-up to, and during, Passover. Read more

This is not a Passover for despair

For most of us, this is the saddest Passover we can recall. Read more

“Restoring Jewish sovereignty” is not “West Bank annexation”

Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz have reached a critical point in their negotiations to form a Government of National Unity: whether to seize the opportunity presented by President Trump to restore Jewish sovereignty in Judea and Samaria – the heartland of the ancient and biblical Jewish National Home – after an absence of 3000 years. Read more

Sydney’s JCA to provide up to $18million to support increased community needs

Including the $1 million in emergency financial relief announced last Thursday, JCA will provide up to $18m to ensure that the community has the resources and backing it requires to continue to provide vital services. Read more

No new government in sight

The Likud and Blue and White parties continued their negotiations towards the establishment of a government, but no resolution appears in sight. Read more

Number of Coronavirus patients in Israel passes 8,000 mark

There are 8,018 diagnosed Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Israel, the Ministry of Health updated Sunday morning of whom 137 are in serious condition. Read more

Israel’s FM congratulates UK Labour new leader on his victory, expresses hopes for better ties

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz congratulated Keir Starmer on his election to lead the UK’s Labour Party over the weekend. Read more

Chag Sameach from Josh Burns

I want to wish all members of our Jewish community a Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more

Unprecedented

When people discussed the need for Israel to finally form some sort of unity government after three election attempts in order to deal with real matters of government, almost no-one imagined that as Bill Gates had predicted already in 2015 – the next danger facing mankind would not be something as big as a nuclear bomb, but rather something as small as the coronavirus. Read more

Pesach greeting from the Premier of NSW

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On the other hand

This Pesach millions of Jews throughout the world will be “home alone” as they sit down to celebrate the Seder and the entire week of the Festival. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Passover 2020. Read more

Professor Paul Zimmet’s message to Maccabi Life

As 2018 Senior Victorian Australian of The Year, one of my commitments was to work together with community organisations. In late 2018, this responsibility led to me joining the Advisory Board of Maccabi LIFE. Read more

Ride with the Israel national cycling team

Israel’s only professional cycling team, Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN), is inviting fans from across the world to join a series of online team rides, in order to help secure protective masks for medical staff fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Israeli missile-production line starts churning out much-needed ventilators

In ordinary times, Israel Aerospace Industry’s Systems Missiles Space group churns out advanced missiles, including interceptors used by the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 defence systems. Read more

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ Pesach message

With Pesach approaching, I would like to send my very best wishes to the Victorian Jewish community. Read more

Jewish, pro-Israel groups react to overturned sentences in murder of journalist Daniel Pearl

Jewish and pro-Israel organizations expressed shock and contempt over a Pakistani court on Thursday that overturned the four convictions related to the 2002 killing of Wall Street Journal Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl. Read more

Adopt-A-Safta offers ‘Seder Boxes’ for isolated elderly, immigrants in Israel

Adopt-A-Safta, Israel’s leading nonprofit initiative that pairs young adults throughout Israel with elderly, is appealing for donations for “Seder Boxes”—complete Passover seder kits delivered to their front doors. Read more

Israeli researchers believe coronavirus vaccine testing could commence by June

Israeli researchers said they are days away from finishing production of the active component of a coronavirus vaccine that could be tested on humans starting June 1. Read more

Amazon apologizes for Hitler book disguised as dog-training manual

Amazon has apologized to a British customer who called on the online retail giant to “immediately” remove from sale a book disguised as a puppy-training manual that in fact contains a full reprint of a 1930s Nazi propaganda book eulogizing Adolf Hitler’s achievements, ideology and work. Read more

Dr Jonathan Schanzer participates in AIJAC webinar

Dr Jonathan Schanzer told an AIJAC webinar 2020 will be the year of Iran’s Precision-Guided Missile. Read more

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