Hanukkah in Auckland

Auckland Celebrates Hanukkah in the Bays with a fun family event to kick off the summer holidays. Read more

Maus forty years later

A beginning. Seems as good a title as any for musing on an everyday story of life these days. It was the Torah portion our older son had for his bar mitzvah twenty-seven years ago…writes Sue Fox. Read more

A Chanukah message from the Prime Minister

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used words penned by the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in his Chanukah message to the country’s Jewish community. Read more

…and on from Walt Secord

Once again, I am delighted to wish all my friends and family in the NSW Jewish community a Happy Chanukah. Read more

Two Jewish firefighters receive citations

A former Masada College student and a former Moriah College student have received citations for their work with the Rural Fire Service Brigades. Read more

JCCV happy with outcome of antisemitic incident’s investigation

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has welcomed the conclusion of the investigation into Dr Arthur Nasis who sent a letter with antisemitic remarks to his sister which was received inadvertently by the subjects of its content. Read more

A lot is in a name, actually

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet;” so says an iconic line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. While the sentiment that names are unimportant is enticing, the reality is that these star-crossed lovers’ names are deeply important. So, too, are the names we bestow on other things. Read more

UAE Sheikh purchases half of Jerusalem’s soccer team

Another historic phase in the rapidly unfolding Abraham Accords was recorded Monday when Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, a member of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) royal family, purchased 50% of the Beitar Jerusalem football club. Read more

UNESCO’s choice

UNESCO has established the world’s first Chair on Dance and Social Inclusion. However, their choice of co-chair is someone who has publicly affiliated with a terror group. Read more

Advanced Israeli drone tech that’s taken militaries by storm now eyes civilian use

An advanced immersive-technology Israeli drone company, which has recently won multiple tenders with the Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. Department of Defense, is eyeing new paths to enter the civilian security market, an executive has told JNS. Read more

Israeli company launches pilot program to help solve problem of textile waste

Re-Born Global, Israel’s first platform for a circular economy in textiles, has launched Re-Born Textiles, the first circular management system for textile waste. Read more

Vic tells how he was saved in the surf

An awareness-raising evening for the recently-formed Israel Life Saving Federation has been held in Sydney with Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff relating his own near-drowning experience. Read more

ECAJ annual conference: Take two

Foreign Minister Senator Marise Payne has addressed a second sitting of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s annual conference originally held a week ago. Read more

Australian politicians to join UK and Israeli colleagues in dialogue

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Pillars of Light to take the Chanukah message to Melburnians

Melbourne’s The ARK Centre will host ‘Pillars of Light’ festival with Gandel Philanthropy and Federation Square for the eight evenings of Chanukah. Read more

Chanukah’s history-poem

Ma’oz Tzur is part of the tug of war between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Read more

Music is Forever

Be transported to the world of tsars, gilded palaces, caviar and untamed wilderness with Dunera Project, an Emanuel Synagogue initiative. Join us for an online musical event, sponsored by JewishCare NSW and UIA, celebrating the richness, splendour and beauty of Russian music and culture: Muzyka Vechna… Music is Forever! Read more

Bahrain changes tune, says won’t allow imports from Israeli settlements

Bahrain will not allow imports from Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, Bahrain’s Industry, Commerce and Tourism Ministry said on Friday according to a report by the state news agency BNA.  Read more

Biden and Israel’s unsteady right

In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, presumptive President-elect Joe Biden reaffirmed his plan to return the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Read more

Do-gooders who do bad – NGO problems exposed at AIJAC webinar

With terrorism and antisemitism ever-present threats, the latest webinar from the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) featured NGO Monitor Vice President Olga Deutsch, whose topic was “Following the Money Trail: An Insight into the Funding of Terrorism and Antisemitism”. Read more

Top women diplomats from Israel, UAE, Bahrain come together in trailblazing event

The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s “Women in Diplomacy Network” together with the governments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Bahrain held a first of its kind panel examining the role of women in diplomacy 20 years after the adoption of UN Resolution 1325. Read more

Israeli aid delegation working round-the-clock in hurricane-struck Honduras

The IDF’s Home Front Command (HFC) and the Israeli Foreign Ministry aid delegation has been assisting cities in northwestern Honduras which were struck by the two hurricanes that blew through Central America last month. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Tasting Peace. Read more

On the other hand

It has been a great week for Israeli sportsmen and sportswomen. Read more

US Supreme Court to hear two cases related to Holocaust restitution

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on Dec. 7 related to the issue of Holocaust restitution. Read more

Biden makes the Netanyahu-Gantz divorce necessary

This isn’t what Israelis want to hear right now, but it’s nonetheless true. They need to hold another election. The prospect of a new administration in Washington is cause for concern, even if it may not prove to be the end of the world. But the challenge that this will pose requires Jerusalem to speak with one voice. Read more

The declining credibility of Palestinian objections to the IHRA definition of antisemitism

A group of Palestinian and Arab intellectuals, 122 in all, endorsed a statement last week published by The Guardian newspaper that attacked the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Read more

Malka Leifer appeal against extradition heard

In Israel’s Supreme Court a panel of judges has heard the oral appeal by Malka Leifer’s defence regarding the Jerusalem’s District Court’s decision to extradite Leifer to Australia to face 74 charges of child sexual abuse. Read more

Amir Peretz announced candidacy for Israel’s Presidency

Amir Peretz, chairman of the Labor Party and currently the Minister of Economy, announced Thursday his intentions to run for the position of the next President of the State of Israel after Reuven Rivlin ends his tenure. Read more

The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews

Among those who understood the depth of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s hostility to Israel, there’s understandable anxiety about the Obama retreads and acolytes among the foreign policy and security nominees being chosen by the prospective president-elect, Joe Biden. Read more

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