FIFA president urged to take action against Polish referee’s anti-Jewish rant

Jewish and antisemitism watchdog groups are urging FIFA to take a stance concerning a Polish soccer referee who went on a rant against Jews. Read more

Nov-23 9:40 pm SBS Viceland-TV: Strictly Orthodox

Stacey spends the weekend staying in the home of Rabbi Wollenberg, his wife Blima and their nine children. Read more

Top Italian soccer league adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

Italy’s premier soccer league, Serie A, has agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Read more

Netflix short film, ‘Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,’ leaves viewers cringing

It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected. Read more

The point of a case that helped start a war is to ensure unending conflict

On the 104th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, four Palestinian families, acting under pressure from both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, reminded us why the conflict between Jews and Arabs has never been resolved in all these years. Read more

Twitter’s new Mideast, North Africa news curator under fire for anti-Israel tweets

Twitter’s new “editorial curation lead” for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) news is drawing criticism from pro-Israel organizations, pointing to her history of anti-Israel bias. Read more

Israeli researchers identify COVID-19 proteins that damage blood vessels

Nearly two years since becoming a global pandemic that has killed millions of people, the mystery of which proteins in the SARS-CoV-2 virus are responsible for severe vascular damage that could even lead to heart attack or stroke has been solved by a team of experts led by Tel Aviv University. Read more

‘Important to regional stability’: Israel and Jordanian trade ministers meet

Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai and Jordan’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Yousef Al-Shamali met on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea on Wednesday, the first such meeting in a decade. Read more

Podcast: David Southwick talks on the Victorian Pandemic Bill

The president of the Victorian Bar has slammed the state’s new pandemic legislation as “appalling”. Read more

Qantas to delete “Occupied Palestinian Territory” and “State of Palestine”

The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) contacted Qantas for urgent clarification, after being alerted by a concerned supporter, that multiple areas of the company’s website appear to take a stand on Middle East politics at odds with Australia’s long-held bi-partisan stance. Read more

Sydney’s Waverley Council leading the way adopting IHRA definition of antisemitism

The Liberal members of Sydney’sy’s  Waverley Council which covers a major part of the city’s Eastern Suburbs were victorious when their motion for Council to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism was passed 9 to 1 with only Greens Cr Kanak voting against it. Read more

Wheelchair-bound Israeli minister left outside UN Climate Conference

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow was witness to an embarrassing incident on Tuesday when Karine Elharrar, Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources, who uses a wheelchair, was left out of the conference due to accessibility problems. Read more

PM Bennett meets with Bill Gates and world leaders at climate conference

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has met with Bill Gates, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

PM Bennett has historic first meeting with Bahrain’s Crown Prince

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett registered a historic moment on Tuesday during the United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow when he met with Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the first Israeli prime minister to do so. Read more

Spectacular ancient gold ring with precious stone unearthed in coastal Israel

A huge excavation conducted at the coastal city of Yavne by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), as part of an initiative to expand the city, has exposed an ancient and spectacular gold ring, the latest fascinating find at the site. Read more

Who is really polluting Judea and Samaria?

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel’s “colonial settlements and their waste” as “Palestine’s most significant environmental dangers” in his address at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow on Tuesday, listing the various grievances against Israel’s supposed environmental policies. Read more

‘Hypocrisy’: Israel’s envoy slams UN support for PFLP-linked organisations

Israel’s Ambassador to the US and the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan dispatched on Tuesday a firm letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the Security Council after the Palestinian Authority (PA) sent two letters of complaint against Israel to the UN regarding Israel’s declaration of six supposed civil society organizations as terrorist organizations. Read more

Women’s Dinner with OzHarvest’s Ronni Kahn

Next month: Sydney’s Jewish Women of the North Shore will present an inspiring evening to embrace and uplift your soul. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Jacob Levi Montefiore – a mover and shaker of the times

Jacob, born in 1819 in Barbados, was the son of Isaac Levi and Esther, and the brother of Eliezer Levi Montefiore. Read more

Red carpet, red lines and red flags: Israel’s race to the climate change agenda

Israel sent a 140-person delegation to the 26th U.N. Climate Change Convention (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, this week led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Read more

At Glasgow, Palestinian Authority blames Israel for environmental woes

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh blamed Israel’s “occupation” for his people’s environmental issues in his address to world leaders at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland on Monday. Read more

Bennett addresses UN Climate Change Conference

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has told the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow that “history will judge our generation’s response to this threat not by how ambitious we are, but by the actions we take”. Read more

Bennett asks Australia to recognize all of Hezbollah as terror organization

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met on Monday with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and discussed issues of mutual and pertinent interest. Read more

Why are there no Jewish monks and nuns?

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Israel & Jordan dividing Judea & Samaria is the key to peace

Two Australian politicians from Australia’s two major political parties – one of them Australia’s former Ambassador to Israel and Government backbencher Dave Sharma – have embarked on a trip to fantasyland in a rare show of bipartisan solidarity that has nothing to do with Australian domestic policy – but involves the “Palestinian People”. Read more

Annual event explores justice after the Holocaust with international thought leader Prof Philippe Sands

Prof. Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The Megillah of Displeasures. Read more

PM Bennett to address the UN Glasgow Climate Conference today

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is now in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference together with Energy Minister Karine Elharrar and Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg. Read more

President Herzog asks for forgiveness at Kafr Qasim Memorial for Arab victims of 1956 massacre

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog visited Kafr Qasim on Friday and addressed the memorial for the victims of the Kafr Qasim Massacre, during which he asked for forgiveness on behalf of the State of Israel. Read more

Bennett recycles Netanyahu’s pledge on Israel’s zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Energy Minister Karine Elharrar announced their decision to raise the threshold for reducing greenhouse gas emissions so that by 2050, Israel will reach zero emissions, essentially recycling similar pledges made by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

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