Peace is possible
July 15, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
Chabad Youth safeguards children
July 15, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Melbourne’s Chabad Youth has won top marks in the Australian Childhood Foundation’s Safeguarding Children Program for the third time since 2014. Read more
EU again breaches peace agreements, challenges Israeli sovereignty, supports illegal PA construction
July 15, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The European Union (EU) announced that it will continue to fund the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) construction in Area C, areas under full Israeli control and where PA development is illegal, in a challenge to Israel’s sovereignty and in contravention of international accords. Read more
Two MKs enter quarantine, over 20,000 active COVID-19 patients in Israel
July 14, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Two Members of Knesset (MK) entered quarantine after being exposed to Coronavirus (COVID-19) carriers, as the number of active patients in Israel passed the 20,000 mark. Read more
Feintooner
July 14, 2020 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Sports – a metaphor for life Read more
Grappling with COVID cases, Israel’s nurses threaten strike over staff shortages
July 14, 2020 by JNS
The Israel Nurses Association (INA) threatened a general strike on Sunday over what it claims are worsening work conditions caused by the coronavirus crisis. Read more
Can you sue your parents?
July 14, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the Rabbi. Read more
A Zoom warning
July 14, 2020 by Agencies
Video conference users should not post screen images of Zoom and other video conference sessions on social media, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers, who easily identified people from public screenshots of video meetings on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Read more
Hamas ranks in Gaza shocked after senior commander smuggled to Israel
July 13, 2020 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Sources in the Gaza Strip report feverish activity by Hamas’ intelligence services following the arrest of an Islamic State (ISIS) cell that was allegedly activated by Israeli intelligence and the smuggling of a Hamas officer into Israel who was exposed to valuable information. Read more
How can Israel help Diaspora Jewry?
July 13, 2020 by Caroline Glick - JNS
At Sunday’s government meeting, Israel’s elected leaders demonstrated their commitment to helping Jewish communities in the Diaspora. Read more
Unemployed? Jewish House ready to help
July 13, 2020 by Rachel Phillips
Sydney’s Jewish House has launched the Avodah (working again) Jobs Project – an initiative aimed at helping secure employment for people in our local community who have recently lost their job as a result of COVID-19, and other personal crises. Read more
Britain shamefully betrays the Jewish People again
July 13, 2020 by David Singer
Britain – the architect of the San Remo Resolution and Treaty of Sevres in 1920 that led to the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922 – has yet again shamefully betrayed the Jewish People by warning Israel not to extend its sovereignty into Judea and Samaria. Read more
On the other hand
July 13, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
Israel has successfully launched an advanced satellite into earth orbit which will help to keep an eye on what is happening in our neighbourhood. Read more
Third minister enters quarantine as high infections rate in Israel continues
July 12, 2020 by TPS
The Minister of Water and Higher Education Zeev Elkin entered quarantine today after being exposed to Coronavirus (COVID-19) carrier, the third minister to enter quarantine in the past week. Read more
COVID-19 update for the Melbourne community
July 12, 2020 by A J-Wire community service announcement
Australia’s Chief Health Officer and Victorian Chief Health Officer have both stated that Melburnians should wear face masks if social distancing cannot be maintained during their outings for one of the four permitted reasons to leave their home. Read more
Mideast experts, officials debate Israel’s sovereignty move and the need to ‘finally define borders’
July 12, 2020 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
As questions over Israel’s application of sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria linger, several leading Mideast experts and former senior officials debated the merits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan, and whether or not it should be implemented at all. Read more
Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel? According to whom?
July 12, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and opposition to bad things like racism is, in principle, praiseworthy, the virtue signalling is insufferable. Read more
A mezzuza for Michael
July 10, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In January, the tiny township of Beulah in western Victoria, 300 kms from Melbourne made headline news when newly-arrived residents flew a Nazi flag in their garden opposite a home where a Holocaust survivor was living. Read more
North Queensland family celebrated triple Barmitzvah
July 10, 2020 by Henry Benjamin
The Knezevick family drove eight hours north from their home in the North East Queensland town of Bowen to Cairns where their three sons celebrated their Barmitzvahs yesterday under the guidance of Rabbi Ari Ruben. Read more
What a mess we made!
July 10, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
The Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz we have just passed, initiates a three-week period of mourning for the loss, twice, of Jerusalem and the Temple. Read more
Understanding the collapse of liberal Zionism
July 10, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
There’s a reason why most Israelis find it difficult to listen patiently to lectures from liberal American Jews. Read more
Both hero and zero: Israel’s strategic incoherence
July 10, 2020 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
While Israelis are increasingly alarmed by the government’s loss of control over the coronavirus crisis, different events suggest that the country may have pulled off a spectacular advance in the battle against another intractable foe. Read more
Danon: Obama’s decision to ‘abandon’ Israel was lowest moment of UN tenure
July 10, 2020 by J-Wire
Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon reflected on his last five years in office and plans for the future during his final press briefing on Tuesday. Read more
Jewish Agency says 2,200 Jews died of COVID-19 in countries other than US, Russia
July 10, 2020 by JNS
Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Isaac Herzog told Jewish leaders from abroad that the coronavirus has claimed the lives of some 2,200 Diaspora Jews, not counting those from the United States and Russia, the two countries with the largest Jewish populations after Israel. Read more
Going Going Gone
July 10, 2020 by Michael Kuttner
With COVID 19 resurgence, continuing international hypocrisy, sovereignty hyperventilation, mysterious Iranian explosions and PC thought police in some countries running rampant, there is plenty to comment about. Read more
Meet Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann
July 10, 2020 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Henry Greener talks with the Ark Centre’s Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann who has been appointed the AFL Multicultural Ambassador as well as becoming a White Ribbon Australia Ambassador. Read more
Iran and Turkey key to Mideast chaos : Jonathan Spyer to AIJAC Webinar
In the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)’s latest webinar, Middle East analyst and author Dr Jonathan Spyer discussed the “war over the ruins” of a chaotic Middle East and particular regional flashpoints, with several economic and military dynamics exacerbated by the spread of COVID-19. Read more
Jul-31 8:30pm SBS-TV: Biography – Marshall
July 9, 2020 by J-Wire
In the year 1941, as the nation teeters on the brink of entering WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends its only lawyer, thirty-two-year-old Thurgood Marshall, to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against charges of rape and attempted murder brought by his wealthy socialite employer. Read more
Antisemitic bullying: MPs say enough is enough
July 9, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Two Victorian opposition members of parliament have criticised the Victorian Department of Education following reports of antisemitic bullying in a State secondary school in Melbourne. Read more
Meet the creator of Shtisel
July 9, 2020 by J-Wire
The creator of Shtisel, Yehonatan Indursky, will be zooming in from Israel to give a talk and Q&A session on August 5. Read more
