Quantum leap forward for Dunera

The entertainment/lifestyle portal Dunera broke new ground when its two-hour production “To Melbourne with Love” attracted over 6500 viewers to its platform. Read more

Dymocks antisemitic book online under review

Bookseller Dymocks is reviewing the inclusion of a book available online known for its antisemitic content. Read more

$3 million for Qld Holocaust Museum and Education Centre

The Queensland Jewish community has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Government to contribute $3.5m to help establish a permanent Holocaust Museum and Education Centre in Brisbane. Read more

Andre Oboler appointed as an adviser to inquiry into antisemitism in Victorian schools

Dr Andre Oboler is to support the investigative team reviewing incidents of antisemitism in Victorian state schools. Read more

International Criminal Court placing its own foundations at risk

“If the International Criminal Court applies a double standard with regard to Israel,” Israel’s official Knesset representative to the International Criminal Court, lawyer and MK Michal Cotler-Wunsch told an AIJAC webinar recently  “the ramifications are that we undermine the entire infrastructure upon which the ICC is based.” Read more

Ukrainian president honours victims of Babi Yar

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky honoured on Monday the memory of the victims of the Babi Yar tragedy, where some 33,771 Jews were murdered by Nazis 79 years ago in a ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Read more

Nobody is ignoring the Palestinians

The common refrain heard from media pundits and left-wing critics of the Gulf kingdoms’ recognition of Israel is that it ignores the Palestinian Arabs. Read more

Biden compares Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has compared U.S. President Donald Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. Read more

Babi Yar at 79 … and its future

Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. Read more

In UN speech, Netanyahu warns of Hezbollah arms depot in Beirut

Addressing the annual U.N. General Assembly virtually on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a secret arms depot belonging to Hezbollah near Beirut’s International Airport and warned that the terror group’s depot could lead to an explosion. Read more

UK: car vandalised with swastika on Yom Kippur

A car in Bristol, United Kingdom, was vandalised with graffiti of a swastika on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Read more

Netanyahu Orders Health System to Prepare for Doubling of Severe COVID-19 Cases

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of discussions on Sunday just before the Yom Kippur holiday in which he ordered the implementation of further measures for preventing the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) as Israel is under a second full lockdown and as the infection rate remains very high. Read more

Mastercard and Visa must cut ties with PA banks or face legal action, PMW warns

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has warned Mastercard and Visa to cut ties with Palestinian Authority (PA) banks or face civil and criminal liability Read more

Henry Greener talks with Dick Gross

Councillor Dick Gross is a seasoned local government politician with a record four terms as Mayor of the City of Port Phillip in the Canal Ward in Melbourne. Read more

A Sukkot feature

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on Sukkot. Read more

Former Nazi’s ski field legacy looks set to stay

NZSki has, once again, doubled down on their refusal to remove the Mt Hutt ski field’s homage to former Waffen SS soldier Willi Huber – unless they receive evidence he committed war crimes. Read more

A candle for COVID-19 victims

President of Israel Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin has called on Israelis and Jewish communities around the world to light an additional memorial candle in memory of over one thousand Israeli victims of coronavirus. Read more

Will Hamas and Fatah unite in force as Israel develops ties to Arab world?

The recent deals to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and Israel and Bahrain, have led many to conclude that the Arab-Israeli conflict has reached a significant turning point. Read more

UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues responds to JUST ACT report

Lord Eric Pickles has been the U.K. Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues since 2015, dealing with issues of restitution of Holocaust-era assets, in addition to promoting Holocaust remembrance, education and research. Read more

UK Labour leader Keir Starmer is drawing a line under the Corbyn years

That old cliché about the media preferring a news cycle dominated by conflict rather than reconciliation has some merit when you look at the amount of attention received by the British Labour Party before and after the disastrous leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Read more

Meet David Zyngier

Social justice activist David Zyngier is the Greens candidate in Melbourne’s Camden Ward for the upcoming Glen Eira City Council Elections…he talks on video to Henry Greener. Read more

On the other hand

This Yom Kippur will be like no other we have ever observed. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon… Read more

Israel prepares for Yom Kippur, Sukkot services under COVID-19 restrictions

Synagogues across Israel will open in a very limited fashion on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and will be completely closed during the seven-day holiday of Sukkot, one of the most joyous holidays in the Jewish calendar. Read more

The night we had dinner with RBG.

The  very sad news that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died was summed up in an email from a friend in Minneapolis  – ‘Cry Our Beloved Country.  We have lost our moral compass.’ Read more

RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior

The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of Jews. Read more

MDA is on highest alert for Yom Kippur

Ahead of Yom Kippur which this year will take place during a national lockdown and the second wave of coronavirus, MDA is prepared with more teams and a high level of alert to provide emergency assistance during the fast day. Read more

BC and CE

Last Pesach (Passover) we experienced the first taste of life in the shadow of a lockdown. Read more

What’s the pointing of fasting?

Here are some of my thoughts on the significance of Yom Kippur. Read more

EU, France build illegal school for PA Arabs in Israeli Area C

The European Union (EU), the French Consulate in Jerusalem, the Agence Française de Développement, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) inaugurated on Tuesday a new building of Furush Beit Dajan Secondary Mixed School, illegally construed and located in Area C in the Jordan Valley, under full Israeli control and jurisdiction as per the 1994 Oslo Accords. Read more

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