Protests against Abbas’ rule in PA expanding

Over the weekend, protests against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Mahmoud Abbas expanded, a protest that began following the death of Nizar Banat, a political activist and harsh critic of Abbas, during an investigation by the PA security in Hebron. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Camp Iwannabeamartyr. Read more

President Rivlin meets WJC President Lauder

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has met Israeli President Reuven Rivlinprivately in New York to thank him for his many years of dedicated service to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Read more

Secord welcomes election of Scott Farlow as new chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel

NSW Labor frontbencher and deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel Walt Secord has welcomed the election of Liberal MP Scott Farlow as the new chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel. Read more

UN should start focusing on the Jordan-Israel two-state solution

United Nations Secretary-General – Antonio Guterres – was at it again this week repeating the failed decades-old UN mantra supposed to end the 100-years-old Jewish-Arab conflict: Read more

Poland: FM Lapid’s attack on Holocaust Reparations Law is ‘indicative of ignorance of the facts’

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s attack on Poland’s amended Code of Administrative Procedure that relates to reparations for Jewish victims of the Holocaust is “indicative of ignorance of the facts and the Polish law,” Poland’s Foreign Ministry charged. Read more

As South Florida grapples with loss, Jewish community props up first responders, family

While the wait continues for word on those missing after Champlain Towers South,  Jewish groups are offering support and comfort to the community and to family members who have arrived in the area seeking news. Read more

The ‘right’ way to be antisemitic, according to Human Rights Watch

Only a generously funded, celebrity-endorsed NGO utterly convinced of its own rectitude would have the chutzpah to proffer advice on combating antisemitism, just weeks after it labelled the world’s sole Jewish state as the faithful reincarnation of apartheid South Africa’s white minority regime. Read more

Fourth wave? Israel returns masks, number of cases climbs

The Ministry of Health announced Friday that all Israeli are required to wear masks in closed public areas, only a week and a half after the requirement ended, and as the number of new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continue to climb in the country. Read more

On the other hand

The long summer school holidays have arrived and students are enjoying their release from lessons following a year marked by corona lockdowns and disrupted studies. Read more

WATCH: Nesher Ramla Homo – New Type of Prehistoric Man Discovered in Israel

The bones of an early human, unknown until now to science, who lived in the Levant at least until 130,000 years ago, were discovered in excavations at the Nesher Ramla site, near the city of Ramla in the centre of Israel. Read more

PA official daily lauds family who named son Eichmann ‘to anger Zionism’

The official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida had warm words for a member of the Atwan family who chose to name his son Eichmann, after SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, one of the key Nazi major officials who propagated the Holocaust. Read more

Jewish House providing help during lockdown

Sydney’s Jewish House has responded swiftly to the latest COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the Eastern Suburbs. Read more

Israel dispatches aid delegations to Miami disaster site

The State of Israel and the IDF have dispatched a team of specialists to help the rescue teams operating at the site of the collapse of the Champlain Towers at Surfside, just outside Miami. Read more

Who really cares about the Palestinians?

In the last several weeks, there has been a surge of interest in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more

EXPOSED: Foreign diplomats say Abbas has lost right to lead PA

What do European leaders really think of Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas? Read more

Countering consistent deceit

When was the last time you heard or read a full-blooded counterattack against the daily barrage of lies aimed at Israel? Read more

Sam Weiss: Composer in Residence

Sydney musician Sam Weiss has become the Composer in Residence for Sydney Children’s Choir. Read more

The irrational faith in reason of the liberal intellectual

Anyone who imagines that the increasingly aggressive behaviour of the Iranian regime will force U.S. President Joe Biden to abandon his attempted revival of the lethal 2015 nuclear deal is almost certainly in for a rude awakening. Read more

Belgian government decides to remove army protection from Jewish sites

The head of the European Jewish Association (EJA) said on Wednesday that the Belgian government’s decision to remove army protection at Jewish institutions makes “zero sense” and leaves Jews “wide open with a target on our backs.” Read more

Stay at home orders for some Sydney readers

To protect the people of NSW from the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, current restrictions will be extended to at least midnight on Friday 2 July. Read more

Rabbi Jeremy Rosen: Shabbat Balak

It seems strange that the whole Parsha we read this week should be named after a Midianite/Moabite King, Balak, and be devoted to a non-Jewish magician Bilam.
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Thought for the week

On Sunday is the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz. It is a minor fast that lasts from dawn to dusk and ushers in a period of mourning that leads up to the 9^th of Av when we commemorate the loss of two Temples. Read more

Abbas facing heavy criticism after torture and death of political opponent

Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas is facing sharp criticism after his political opponent, Nizar Khalil Mohamad Banat, was arrested by PA forces in Hebron on Wednesday night and apparently tortured to death. Read more

Gilad Shalit, former Hamas abductee, married

Gilad Shalit, a former IDF soldier who was in Hamas captivity for five years, married Nitzan Shabbat on Wednesday night in Sharonit, central Israel, after being engaged for over a year. Read more

Julian Leeser has told the House of Representatives that Hezbollah should be listed in its entirety as a terrorist organisation

LiberalFederal MP Julian Leeser has spoken in the House of Representatives on the recommendation to the Australian government to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation in its entirety. Read more

Anti-Abbas activist dies in PA custody

Nizar Khalil Mohamad Banat, a well-known political activist in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and one of PA head Mahmoud Abbas’ fiercest opponents, died on Wednesday night in Hebron while in PA custody and after they arrested him. Read more

The 2021 Gaza war: An overview

The 2021 Gaza war, which raged from May 10 through May 21, was the fourth (2008, 2012, 2014) military exchange between the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinian terror organizations, led by Hamas, since Israel unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005. Read more

Technion, Israel Aerospace Industries launch project to develop nanosatellites

The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology has signed a cooperation agreement with the Space Division at Israel Aerospace Industries to develop and launch a nanosatellite that will enter low-altitude orbit around the moon and collect data using a payload of scientific instruments. Read more

Aida: Tragic love story is operatic triumph – an opera review by Victor Grynberg

Re-staged in Sydney for the first time since its amazing success in 2018 this digital backgrounded production of Giuseppe Verdi’s blockbuster reached even greater heights this season. Read more

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