Israel Police chief urges caution in face of remaining two ‘desperate’ terrorist fugitives

Five days into a national hunt for six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from a jail in northern Israel, police captured two of the fugitives—Yaqoub Qadri and Mahmoud Ardah—in Nazareth on Friday night. Read more

Ministry of Health D-G: ‘We are at a complex point in time’

Israel is “at a complex point in time” and “there are positive signs of curbing the wave” of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, Ministry of Health Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash said, as the infection rate remained high. Read more

Third night in a row – Gazan terrorists bomb Israel, IAF hits back

Gaza-based terrorists fired rockets at southern Israel on Sunday night, and the Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighters bombed Hamas targets in the Strip in response, for the third night in a row. Read more

Knesset award for the last survivor of the Babyn Yar massacre

The Knesset has held a commemoration meeting to mark 80 years since the Babyn Yar massacre. Read more

PM Bennett: world powers should not be fooled by Iran on nuclear weapons

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made a number of remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday. Read more

Arizona shames Biden on Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Jews

Arizona has highlighted President Biden’s weak leadership in failing to condemn Jew-hatred – by selling off Arizona’s $143 million investment in Unilever bonds ($50 million still to be sold) – after Unilever’s subsidiary – Ben & Jerry’s – announced its intention to stop selling its ice cream products from the end of 2022 to Jews living in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Read more

Yom Kippur

Thoughts on Yom Kippur from Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

Australian Jews, Christians and Muslims commemorate 20th Anniversary of 9/11 together

Within days of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York and Washington, Jewish, Muslim and Christian Australians arranged a well-attended multifaith service of prayer and reflection in central Sydney. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Uniters not Dividers. Read more

Bennett: Time to act against Iran is now

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called for an “appropriate and rapid international reaction” after an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report warned that Tehran had made it impossible for its inspectors to oversee the country’s nuclear program. Read more

The real lesson of 9/11 isn’t a story about Islamophobia

One of the strangest aspects of post-9/11 America has been the compulsion of so many to change the narrative about the attacks that took place 20 years ago. Read more

Israel and region continue to feel reverberations of 9/11 two decades later

As the world marks 20 years since Al-Qaeda’s terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the unprecedented events and their aftereffects continue to reverberate throughout the region and beyond. Read more

Lior Raz on new show shot in Brooklyn, remembering 9/11 and being called sexy

Being an international action star might be enough for some, but not for Lior Raz…writes Alan Zeitlin. Read more

After capture of four escaped terrorists, manhunt on for the other two continues

Israel’s combined security services continued their manhunt for two Islamic Jihad terrorists who escaped from the Gilboa Prison almost a week ago after four of the six escapees were captured over the weekend. Read more

Bin Laden son feels ‘shame, horror’ towards father’s actions, wants to visit Israel

The son of Osama bin Laden, the slain leader of the Al-Qaeda terror group, reflected on the crimes of his father associated with the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and said he hopes to visit Israel in an interview with Yediot Aharonot. Read more

Alan Finkel joins Henry Greener on his 700th show

Dr Alan Finkel Zooms in to appear on the special 700th Episode of The Shtick. Read more

Two decades on, the West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the 9/11 attacks on America. Twenty years on, it’s painfully clear that many Westerners still don’t grasp the full nature and scope of what they witnessed when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan fell. Read more

Slovakia apologizes for World War II laws against Jews

The Slovakian government apologized on Wednesday for World War II-era laws that stripped Jews of their rights. Read more

Jewish community recalls 9/11 with service projects, prayer, concert, memorial walk

Allan Englander usually commemorates Sept. 11 at the Tribeca Synagogue, where he was having breakfast after morning minyan that Tuesday in 2001 when he heard a plane had hit the World Trade Centre…writes Kares Schwartz. Read more

This is how the ‘balance of deterrence’ was created in the security prisons in Israel

A very senior Hamas leader told TPS Thursday that “the statement heard among Israeli officials that it is the prisoners who control the prisons is incitement that is often repeated and is baseless.” Read more

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met yesterday in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. After the meeting, Lapid spoke about Russia and Israel’s connections and the Iranian threat to the world. Read more

IINZ welcomes NZ withdrawal from Durban IV

Four more countries have joined the growing list of nations boycotting the ceremonies to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Durban declaration. They are Italy, Croatia, Cyprus and New Zealand. Read more

Why God hides: Shabbat Shuvah and Shabbat Vayeyleh

The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is always called the Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return. Read more

NSW Labor approves draft bill to ban swastikas

This week, State Labor unanimously approved a draft bill for public consultation to ban the Nazi flag and swastika in NSW. Read more

Support for victims as Malka Leifer’s court proceedings start on Monday.

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Tzedek and VoiCSA are express their support for Nicole Meyer, Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper, and all of the alleged victims/survivors of Malka Leifer ahead of the committal hearing starting on Monday. Read more

Initial inquiry indicate multi-tier failure in prison break

The escape of six terrorists from the Gilboa Prison on Sunday night was the result of a multi-tier failure of the command and rank and file of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), an initial inquiry shows. Read more

IDF on high alert following prison break

The IDF is on high alert in Judea and Samaria and on the border with the Gaza Strip following the escape of six terrorists from the Gilboa Prison on Sunday night. Read more

Riots ensue in Judea and Samaria after prison break

Riots broke out throughout Judea and Samaria on Wednesday following the escape of six terrorists from the Gilboa Prison on Sunday night. Read more

Sydney community organisations come together for Kol Nidre appeal

In a communal gathering of hearts and minds, the NSW Board of Jewish Education (BJE), in collaboration with JCA, will be diverting funds from their annual Kol Nidre Appeal to support COA Sydney. Read more

Podcast: David Southwick on the ban of the swastika

L’Chaim had had its first guest on L’Chaim to kick off the year 5782, the newly announced Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, Member for Caulfield, David Southwick. Read more

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