Jul-08 Sydney: Movie – Shiva Baby
June 21, 2021 by J-Wire
A laugh-out-loud JIFF audience favourite, Shiva Baby is a wildly entertaining and original film set within the confines of a family shiva (memorial service). Read more
Encyclopedia of Jewish Women
June 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Two Australian academics are members of the team which produced a new edition of the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Read more
Israeli forces arrest eight Arabs for lynching of Jewish man in Lod
June 21, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The Shin Bet security service and the Israel Police have arrested eight Arabs suspected of the murder of Yigal Yehoshua in a lynch last month in the city of Lod, amid countrywide anti-Jewish riots perpetrated by Muslims. Read more
Remembering Operation Protective Edge
June 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Reuven Rivlin spoke at yesterday’s memorial ceremony for the fallen of Operation Protective Edge, marking seven years since the operation. Read more
Bennett set to shake-up global consensus on two-state solution
June 21, 2021 by David Singer
Israeli Prime Minister – Naftali Bennett – seems set to challenge the decades-long failure by the international community to achieve its called-for two-state solution: Creating a second Palestinian Arab state, in addition to Jordan, for the first time in recorded history. Read more
Dr David Cumin and Juliet Moses in discussion
June 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Juliet Moses was invited to speak at the recent conference on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism In one session, there was open support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Read more
Jun-24 5pm AEST 7PM NZ Zoom: Dr David Cumin and Juliet Moses
June 21, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Juliet Moses was invited to speak at the recent conference on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism In one session, there was open support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Read more
Feintooner
June 21, 2021 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…A Butchered Election. Read more
$6million for the Sydney Jewish Museum
June 20, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney Jewish Museum is to receive $6million in the NSW budget to be announced on Tuesday. Read more
‘The Butcher of Tehran’: Israel slams Iran’s election of Ebrahim Raisi
June 20, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel harshly condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran following the election of its new president Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday. Read more
OBK feed the CEOs facing a winter’s night
June 20, 2021 by J-Wire News Service
After the event was scratched last year due to covid – hundreds of CEO’s slept out on Thursday to raise funds for the homeless. Read more
PA refuses Israel’s offer to transfer 1m COVID-19 vaccines
June 20, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The Palestinian Authority (PA) cancelled an agreement in which Israel was to transfer over one million Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to the PA, claiming the Pfizer vaccines were damaged. Read more
Indigenous Friends of Israel disagree with QLD Labor
Recently Queensland Labor voted on a resolution accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing, but Indigenous voices don’t agree. Read more
On the other hand
June 20, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
They are off and running. The only question is will they make it to the finishing line? Read more
Video: Henry Greener has a chat with Daniel Aghion
June 20, 2021 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria President Daniel Aghion speaks with Henry Greener on the values, culture and diversity of the roof body of Victorian Jewry. Read more
Palestinianism is opening up a posthumous Nazi front against Jews
June 18, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The Palestinian war against Israel is no longer something that the West can regard as a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom they know nothing. Read more
Israeli President-elect: ‘Yoni Netanyahu has become a symbol of courage and heroism’
June 18, 2021 by JNS
A memorial service was held on Wednesday at the gravesite of Lt. Col. Yonatan (“Yoni”) Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, who lost his life 45 years ago during “Operation Entebbe,” a successful counterterrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by Israeli commandos at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976. Read more
Haredim fume over coalition’s plan to review religious-secular status quo
June 18, 2021 by JNS
United Torah Judaism lawmakers were enraged to learn on Wednesday that Israel’s new government plans to set up a special committee to review the longstanding religious-secular status quo in Israel. Read more
Religious politics
June 18, 2021 by Jeremy Rosen
The personal attacks on Naftali Bennet coming from the Charedi parties in Israel because he has been instrumental in excluding them from power and has stood up to their blackmail are disgusting. Read more
Walt Secord returns to Labor frontbench: Shadow Minister for Police and Counter-Terrorism
June 18, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
In a comprehensive reshuffle of the NSW State Labor frontbench, Walt Secord was appointed to a number of shadow ministerial portfolios including Shadow Minister for Police and Shadow Minister for Counter-Terrorism. Read more
Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins attends Myall Creek massacre commemoration
June 18, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney’s Emanuel Synagogue chief minister Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins has joined descendants of the Wirrayaraay people to participate in the annual commemoration of the Myall Creek massacre near Bingara in northern NSW. Read more
Midsummer Nights’ Dreams
June 18, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
It may not yet be midsummer in Israel but the dreams or nightmares, depending on your political preferences, have already burst forth, domestically and internationally. Read more
Cop indicted for shooting of Arab man with special needs
June 18, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
A policeman who shot and killed Iyad Halak, an Arab man with special needs, was indicted after being charged with manslaughter. Read more
Low levels of vitamin D found in some COVID patients
June 18, 2021 by Elana Oberlander
A new study conducted by the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University and its affiliate Galilee Medical Centre is among the first to show that pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D is associated with increased COVID-19 severity and mortality. Read more
For the first time, Australia brands an extreme right-wing group as a terrorist organisation
June 17, 2021 by Henry Benjamin
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has approved regulations listing the antisemitic far-right Sonnenkrieg Division as a terrorist organisation. Read more
EU condemns Hamas for death sentences
June 17, 2021 by Andrew Issacson -TPS
The European Union’s (EU) Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah condemned the Hamas terror organization on Tuesday for two death sentences it issued in the Gaza Strip earlier this month. Read more
New Zealand groups concerned about Hezbollah and Hamas support
June 17, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
A group of concerned New Zealanders is deeply concerned at the response by audience members to statements made by Juliet Moses on behalf of the Jewish Council during a conference on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in New Zealand. Read more
Haley, Hagee show solidarity in visit to Israel, warn against revitalized Iran
June 17, 2021 by JNS
Israel, you are not alone. … We represent 10 million-plus people in America and these people say to you Israel, we have your back.” Read more
Israeli’s birthplace switched from ‘Jerusalem’ to ‘Occupied Territories’ on new UK passport
June 17, 2021 by JNS
Israel’s Foreign Ministry is investigating a report that an Israeli woman had her birthplace changed from “Jerusalem” to “Occupied Palestinian Territories” upon renewing her U.K. passport. Read more
Big blasts from Beethoven and Brahms: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing
June 17, 2021 by Fraser Beath McEwing
In last night’s Sydney Town Hall concert, Brahms was ranked above Beethoven – when the SSO performed Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56, before intermission, with Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major in prime-time after. Read more
