IDF troops who served during Protective Edge sue Breaking the Silence and crew member for ‘spreading lies and fabrications’
January 22, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Breaking the Silence is facing legal action after two IDF soldiers who served during Operation Protective Edge filed a unique lawsuit in an Israeli court against the organization and Yaron Zeev, a former member of their tank crew, for defamation and “spreading lies and fabrications.” Read more
Yad Vashem launches IRemember Wall ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 22, 2021 by TPS
“I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger,” David wrote in his last letter, which he sent from Vilna in 1941. Read more
In a first, woman elected to head Israeli religious party
January 22, 2021 by Agencies
For the first time in Israel’s history, a woman was elected this week to head a religious party running for the Knesset, when Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe emerged victorious in the Jewish Home Party (Habayit Hayehudi) primary on Tuesday. Read more
Will America stay the strong horse when it comes to Iran?
January 22, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Can leopards change their spots? Or to be more pertinent, can those who put Israel, the West and the world in such danger through the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with the Iranian regime now accept that what they did was catastrophically wrong? Read more
Israel’s UN envoy steps into role of US ambassador
January 22, 2021 by Agencies
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Thursday assumed the role of ambassador to the United States, taking over from Ron Dermer, who held the position for the past seven years. Read more
Hard-hearted
January 22, 2021 by Jeremy Rosen
My last blog was intentionally controversial. The aim was to point out that people rarely seem capable of hearing, let alone absorbing another point of view. Read more
Resurrection time has arrived
January 22, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
I never thought that this would ever happen in our lifetime but miraculously it is unfolding before our very eyes. Read more
A Holocaust Memorial Centre at Babyn Yar
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre (BYHMC) unveiled its plans for constructing one of the world’s largest Holocaust memorial centres. Read more
Benny Begin joins New Hope
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Former minister and senior Likud figure and son of the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Benny Begin has announced he would be joining Gideon Saar, and the New Hope Party as a candidate for the Knesset in the upcoming elections. Read more
Jan-26 8pm Zoom: Indigenous justice is the responsibility of all of us.
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire
Indigenous justice is the responsibility of all of us.
January 22, 2021 by A J-Wire community service announcement
A new hall and apartments for the Brisbane Hebrew Congregation
January 22, 2021 by Henry Benjamin
The Brisbane Hebrew Congregation has overwhelmingly given the thumbs up for the design for its new communal hall. Read more
Feb-10 3:25pm SBS-TV: Who Do You Think You Are?
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire
Robert ‘Judge’ Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, hearing first-hand testimony of the horror of Nazi forced labour camps, as well as of the hope offered by a new life in Lake Windermere. Read more
Feb-13 10:55pm SBS-TV: Movie – The Pianist
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire
Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as WWII begins. Read more
New principal for Masada
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Masada College has announced that Mira Hasofer has been appointed as college principal taking over from Martin Tait at the start of Term 3, 2021. Read more
#everynamecounts
January 22, 2021 by J-Wire News Service
Together with volunteers from all over the world, the Arolsen Archives in Germany is building the largest digital memorial to the victims of Nazism. Read more
Egyptian and Jordanian message to Abu Mazen: ‘Israel warns of consequences for Hamas’ election victory’
January 21, 2021 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
“Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence chiefs who visited Ramallah this week and met with Abu Mazen warned the Palestinian Authority that Israel would not cooperate with a Palestinian government in which Hamas would be a partner,” a senior Fatah official told TPS. Read more
Israeli leaders welcome Biden
January 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Israeli leaders have warm congratulatory messages to President Joe Biden on the first day of his presidency. Read more
The changing of the guard in US-Israel relations
January 21, 2021 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
Like many American policies now expected to undergo an about-face following the inauguration of 46th President Joe Biden, U.S.-Israel relations may be gearing up for a great reset. Read more
Unity or deprogramming? How about defending free speech?
January 21, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Inauguration Day is a moment when it ought to be possible for both the winners and the losers in America’s political battles to set aside their enmity and at the very least pay lip service to the notion of national unity. Read more
Biden taps two additional Jewish nominees to senior posts in intelligence, health
January 21, 2021 by JNS
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has appointed former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the same role. Read more
Trump pardons Jonathan Pollard handler Aviem Sella
January 21, 2021 by JNS
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Aviem Sella, the former handler of Jonathan Pollard, a former civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy who sold U.S. military secrets to Israel while working at the Pentagon in the 1980s. Read more
Biden nominees stress that US will not be rejoining Iran nuclear deal anytime soon
January 21, 2021 by JNS
Several nominees for U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team acknowledged on Tuesday that the United States isn’t ready to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Read more
Secretary Of State Nominee Blinken: US Embassy staying in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital
January 21, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and the US embassy will not be removed back to Tel Aviv, and Iran is only three to four months away from breakout time for a nuclear weapon, Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden’s selection as secretary of state, told the Senate. Read more
Tlaib calls Israel ‘racist’ for not offering COVID vaccines in Palestinian territories
January 20, 2021 by JNS
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused Israel of being “racist” for not distributing coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian territories, despite the fact that the West Bank is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and the Gaza Strip is run by the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas. Read more
30-day mourning period for Israeli Esther Horgen to be observed online
January 20, 2021 by Josh Hasten - JNS
Family and friends of Esther Horgen, the 52-year-old Israeli mother of six who was murdered by an Arab terrorist last month, are organizing a Zoom event for the general public on Wednesday evening, Jan. 20, to mark her shloshim—the culmination of the traditional 30-day Jewish mourning period since her death. Read more
Israelis over the age of 40 now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine
January 20, 2021 by JNS
Israel’s Ministry of Health lowered the age of those eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine to 40 on Tuesday. At the same time, the ministry ordered the country’s four health management organizations to prepare to distribute a quarter of a million vaccines per day. Read more
Israeli Health Ministry: Level of antibodies generated by Pfizer vaccine higher than in those who contracted COVID-19
January 19, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The level of antibodies that the Pfizer-developed Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine produces is higher than that found in those who contracted the virus and their bodies produced it naturally, the Israeli Health Ministry has found. Read more
Curious Obsessions in the History of Science and Spirituality – a book review by Jeffrey Cohen
January 19, 2021 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
Rachael Kohn was for over a quarter of a century the religious voice at the Australian Broadcasting Commission, having retired from the ABC in 2018. Read more
Scott Morrison in video conference with Netanyahu
January 19, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has participated in a video conference of leaders including Scott Morrison hosted by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Read more
