Sunday with V-PJV

Make an impact on climate change by attending Progressive Judaism Victoria online. Read more

Australia’s oldest operating synagogue approaching its 175th anniversary

Hobart Synagogue, the oldest Jewish place of worship still in use in Australia, is about to turn 175 – and a certain medical crisis hasn’t stopped the anniversary from being turned to good use. Read more

Junking the Jews is behind our current Hobbesian nightmare

International pressure on Israel not to extend its sovereignty over parts of the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria is increasing. Read more

More on prayer

We are living in a fraught, unpredictable world of conflicting values and policies.  So I am returning to an earlier post about prayer. Read more

Over 40% of Jewish community now considers antisemitism a big problem in New Zealand

There’s been a significant increase in the amount of Jewish New Zealanders who think antisemitism is a “very big” or a “fairly big” problem, according to a new survey of New Zealand’s Jewish community. Read more

Shander

This Yiddish word can be roughly translated as “shameful” and “disgrace.” Read more

New Irish government rejects effort to boycott Israeli products

The anti-Israel movement in Ireland has suffered a major defeat. Earlier this month, the political parties working on forming the next government in Ireland eliminated a key bill that would have placed a boycott on products produced in Israeli settlements. Read more

British education secretary ousted for sharing ‘antisemitic conspiracy theory’

British Labour Party member Rebecca Long-Bailey was ousted on Thursday as shadow education secretary after sharing an “antisemitic conspiracy theory” on Twitter. Read more

Footage, photos prove Ahmed Erekat committed attack, was not ‘executed’

Footage taken by security cameras, photos from the scene of the attack and other information clearly demonstrate that Ahmed Erekat was carrying out a terror attack on Tuesday in the outskirts of Jerusalem when he was killed by Israeli security forces, and was not executed, as Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and Arab-Israeli lawmakers alleged. Read more

Call for redress for Victorian victims for racial vilification

The Legal And Social Issues Committee Of The Legislative Assembly Of Victoria has heard statements from The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the mother of a five-yr-old child, a victim of racial bullying at a Melbourne public school. Read more

Jul-05 Zoom: In Conversation with Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins: Honouring First Nations sovereignty

Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue welcomes three important voices to our In Conversation series with Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins. Read more

In Conversation with Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins: Honouring First Nations sovereignty

Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue welcomes three important voices to our In Conversation series with Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins. Read more

UN secretary-general to Security Council: Israeli sovereignty ‘calamitous’ for the region

In a report to the United Nations Security Council, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged Israel to drop plans to extend sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, saying it would be a “most serious violation of international law.” Read more

UN envoy to Palestinians: ‘Do not lose sight of goal of free Palestinian state’

U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolai Mladenov told a mass gathering in the Palestinian Authority on Monday “never to give up” their aspirations for statehood. Read more

Terrorist killed in attack was nephew of PA’s chief negotiator

Ahmed Erekat, the terrorist killed on Tuesday while carrying out an attack in the outskirts of Jerusalem, was the nephew of Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and chief negotiator with Israel. Read more

Amid outcry, Knesset committee approves Netanyahu’s request for tax refunds

The Knesset’s Finance Committee approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for tax refunds going back a decade and worth hundreds of thousands of shekels, amid an outcry decrying the move as unseemly during a time the country is experiencing a severe financial crisis. Read more

The challenge for Jewish voices among progressives

Antisemitism takes many forms. It can come from the right or the left. It can be found in theology, but also in anti-religious political ideology…writes Suzanne Rutland Andre Oboler. Read more

Racism, Bowraville Murders and truth-telling

Sydney filmmakers Dan Goldberg and Adam Kay who produced “Code of Silence” and “Strictly Jewish have turned their attention to the unsolved murders of three Aboriginal children in Bowraville. Read more

Young blood keen to become involved in NSW community

Ninety-six members of the NSW Jewish community are vying for 70 positions as Elected Deputies of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies for the next two years with almost a quarter of the nominees are under the age of 30. Read more

Appreciation for five rejections at UNHRC

Australian Jewish organisations have voiced their reactions to the country’s voting against five anti-Israel resolutions in the United Nations Human Right Council. Read more

Antisemitism on social media

Antisemitism on social media and what to do about it was the focus of the latest webinar from the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). Read more

Israeli mentor to Australian desalination plants now on guard against Iranian terror

Boys Town Jerusalem graduate Shai Dreizin, CEO of Israel’s Ashkelon desalination plant, has been personally involved over the past years in launching two similar projects in Sydney and on the  Gold Coast. Read more

A rat’s tale changes our 
understanding of human evolution

Roughly 200,000-year-old fossils from a Carmel Cave in northern Israel indicate that human migration from Africa actually occurred during the Ice Age. Read more

Israel preparing for 2,500 COVID-19 patients on life-support, hundreds of dead

The Corona Cabinet unanimously approved the Health, Finance and Defence ministries’ proposal to prepare for the scenario of some 2,500 Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients on life support and “many hundreds of dead,” as the numbers of infections in Israel climb daily. Read more

Meet the Frydenbergs

Bariatric Surgeon Harry Frydenberg was the first Presenter on The Shtick way back in 2004. So, it seemed appropriate for Henry Greener to invite him to be his final Guest on C31, as he and his wife Dr Erica Frydenberg Zoom in from Lorne, where they have been living during the lockdown. Read more

Zoom: AJA to host Imam Tawhidion “Islam – Antisemitism & Israel”

The centre-right conservative-leaning Australian Jewish Association (AJA) will host a “ground-breaking” special event, a first within the Australian Jewish community. Read more

Australia says “Against” to UNHCR resolutions

The votes are in for the Forty-third session of the UN Human Rights Council which sat between 24 February and 20 March 2020. Read more

Neo-Nazi website booted out by web host

Web host Digital Pacific has removed the website of The National Socialist Network according to Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Read more

Jul-01 Webinar: National Cybersecurity

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Webinar: National Cybersecurity

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