Israel’s Genesis Prize awarded to Sharansky

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin hosted the 2020 Genesis Prize ceremony, awarded to Natan Sharansky. Sharansky, a former Prisoner of Zion, human rights activist and politician was chosen to receive the prize for his service over many years to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Read more

Appalling apathy and deliberate denial

Albert Einstein, who knew a thing or two about human nature and behaviour, summed it up perfectly. Read more

Hasmonean Women

I realize what a patriarchal society we, like the rest of the world, have been until very recently. Read more

Israeli scientists develop gene therapy to treat loss of hearing in children

Israeli scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a gene therapy for deafness, a breakthrough that may help in the treatment of children with hearing loss. Read more

Israel will enter third countrywide lockdown on Sunday

Israel will enter a countrywide lockdown on Sunday, the third in 10 months, as the number of daily Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continued to increase. Read more

Yet another Likud MK bolts party to join Sa’ar’s New Hope movement

Likud Knesset member Sharren Haskel resigned from the Knesset on Wednesday and announced that she would be joining former Likud lawmaker Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party. Read more

US-Israeli delegation makes history in Morocco, signs diplomatic and economic deals

A joint Israeli-American delegation met with senior officials in Morocco on Tuesday, including King Mohammed VI, as part of a move to normalize relations between Israel and Morocco. Read more

Dr Andre Oboler’s short-lived presidency

One month after being elected president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Dr Andre Oboler has announced his resignation from the role, effective 29 January 2021. Read more

The upside of defeat

In an op-ed in the New York Post on Saturday, Kyle Smith—conservative critic-at-large for National Review—offered U.S. President Donald Trump “a nickel’s worth of free advice” on how to “destroy [his] enemies” after he leaves the White House. Read more

Kushner leads American-Israeli visit to Morocco

Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, led a delegation from Israel to Morocco on Tuesday aboard the first direct flight between the two countries as part of the ongoing U.S. effort to broker peace deals between Arab countries and the Jewish state. Read more

Trashing Trump’s two-state solution would be the height of folly

A departing President’s ability to make decisions seeking to impact his successor’s future actions – even as he is vacating the White House in the last weeks of his Presidency – was dramatically illustrated on 23 December 2016 when America failed to veto Security Council Resolution 2334. Read more

Should Jews be proud of American Jews in high positions?

The incoming U.S. President Joe Biden has named a number of Jews to his future cabinet and other senior positions. Read more

Violence against women on the agenda

The President of the Rabbinical Association of Australasia Rabbi Yaakov Glasman and The Ark Centre’s Rabbi Gabi Kaltman have met for with the new Executive Director of White Ribbon Australia Brad Chilcott in Melbourne. Read more

Be careful whom you type to

Online users are more likely to reveal private information based on how website forms are structured to elicit data, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have determined. Read more

Survivor talks at the Sydney Jewish Museum resume

Talks by Holocaust survivors will resume in the Sydney Jewish Museum over the summer period. Read more

Meet Andi Lew

Author Andi Lew Is Connected by Zoom from Bondi to Melbourne to tell us about her 8th Book entitled “CONNECTED – A Paradigm Shift in how we View Health”. Read more

Israel closing its skies following emergence of UK COVID-19 mutation

The Corona Cabinet has decided to close Israel’s skies almost completely, following the emergence of a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant in the United Kingdom that is rapidly spreading around the world. Read more

Knesset to dissolve Tuesday at midnight, Israel goes to 4th round of elections

The Knesset will dissolve on Tuesday night at midnight and Israel will go to the fourth round of elections in a bit less than two years after a bill to extend the deadline for passing the state budget was voted down in the Knesset plenum on Monday night Read more

Brian Sherman made Governor Emeritus of The Australian Museum

State Liberal MP for Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton addressed the Brian Sherman Dedication Dinner held at The Australian Museum. Read more

Jan-19 7.35p SBS World Movies: The Name of Love

Bahia is a free spirit from Algeria with a provocative personality and a love of flirting. Read more

Meet Sori Block

Sori Block grows from the inner work that she has particularly developed to adapt during these Days of Covid. Being a Fitness Coach, Wig Stylist, Writer and mother of four, with two grandchildren born in 2020. Read more

Jan-21 9:30p SBS World Movies: Son of Saul

A look at Saul Auslander, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from Auschwitz in 1944 who were forced to assist the Nazis by cremating the bodies of the dead. Read more

Samaria: mother of 6 murdered in terrorist attack

Esther Horgan, a mother of six from Tal Menashe, was murdered Sunday night in a terrorist attack in the Reihan Forest where she went for a run. Read more

What happens if a rabbi’s decision is overruled by a Beth Din

Ask the rabbi… Read more

Right livid after Gantz says Jerusalem has ‘room’ for Palestinian capital

Prominent figures on Israel’s right are furious with Defense Minister Benny Gantz for telling London-based Saudi news outlet Asharq Al-Awsat in a recent interview that he does not envision full regional peace without the Palestinians, and that Jerusalem had enough room to include a future Palestinian capital. Read more

LeDor VaDor: The Great Synagogue launches CD

Sydney’s The Great Synagogue is known for its beautiful choral services, sung by its cantor and choir and now has produced a CD. Read more

Yad Vashem mourns one of their best

Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Baruch Shub, a Holocaust survivor who served as a member of the Yad Vashem Directorate and of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations. Read more

President Rivlin vaccinated

President Reuven Rivlin has visited Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center and was vaccinated against coronavirus. Read more

Sydney HSC results

Despite a tumultuous and challenging year, Emanuel School’s Year 12 students’ focus and determination have converged to deliver outstanding results. Read more

European hypocrisy laid bare in kosher-slaughter legal judgement

Last time I checked, the French were still preparing their famed foie gras delicacy using the method of “gavage.” Read more

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