The ‘genocide Olympics’ gives the lie to human-rights rhetoric

On his Facebook page last week, Elisha Wiesel—the son of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel—had a poignant accusation for the world, and especially for those who revered the lessons his father tried to impart about the importance of speaking up against atrocities and totalitarian regimes. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Myer E Rosenblum – a gentleman, scholar and sportsman

Myer was born in South Africa in 1907, his family having emigrated from what is now Belarus but then part of the Russian Empire. Read more

First-ever Jewish Australian women’s speakers bureau

The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia has established the first-ever national Jewish women’s public speaker’s bureau. Read more

A chat with Henry Greener

Henry talks with Jewish International Film Festival Manager Erin Rosenberg who works full-time on the various film festivals that Classic Cinema Directors Lindy and Eddie Tamir organize releasing films of the highest standards. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon.  Amnesia International. Read more

Foreign governments gave $100m to Israeli organisations that helped author Amnesty’s anti-Israel report

The vast majority, 77%, of the organizations who provided materials for Amnesty International’s report against Israel were Israeli organizations that received a total of $105,209,347 (NIS 337,553,677) from foreign governments in the past decade, the Zionist watchdog group Im Tirtzu reported on Sunday. Read more

Israel takes action against Unilever

The State of Israel has commenced with a process to level sanctions against Unilever Global after the company announced a boycott on the country. Read more

Holocaust survivor, 91, dies of wounds from Hamas May bombing

Naomi Perlman, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, seriously injured in May when rockets launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip hit her home in Ashkelon, has succumbed to her wounds and passed away over the weekend. Read more

Amnesty hops on UN bandwagon to demonize Israel and Jews

Amnesty International has hopped on the United Nations (UN) bandwagon aimed at vilifying and demonizing Israel and the Jewish People with the release of its 280-page report entitled Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians (“Report”). Read more

Fred Nile shows support for the ban of Nazi symbols in NSW

The NSW Parliament’s Social Issues Committee has met to discuss the Display of Nazi Symbols Bill 2021. Read more

On the other hand

Amidst all the pressures generated by Omicron and seasonal winter ailments combined with overstretched medical personnel and resources, there was some positive news this week. Read more

UAE textbooks teach tolerance as those of PA teach violence, anti-Jewish incitement

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has uncovered thousands of pages of new teaching material produced by the Palestinian Authority that directly calls for violence and promotes anti-Semitism, even after promising European Union donors it would implement changes. Read more

Why the Amnesty ‘apartheid’ smear of Israel can’t be ignored

Say this for Amnesty International, its outrageous report alleging that Israel is an “apartheid state” has brought nearly all of the Jewish world together to condemn the organization. Read more

Israel’s gift of hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinians violates law

The Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum sent a request on Jan. 16 under Israel’s Freedom of Information Act to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, asking for information and details on his agreement to transfer hundreds of millions of shekels to the Palestinian Authority. Read more

Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race

Whoopi Goldberg has got herself into a terrible mess. She was suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s “The View” talk show after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was instead, she said, about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “white people doing it to white people.” Read more

Talmud for dummies

I do not waste my time on TikTok ( indeed I have all but cut myself off from any social media simply to save my time for more important things). Read more

Israel’s embassy in Australia donates devices for Indigenous sight-impaired

The Embassy of Israel in Canberra has donated five Israeli OrCam MyEye devices through Vision Australia to help support Indigenous health centres and remote communities in the Northern Territory. Read more

Concert to launch the The Great Synagogue Foundation

A significant gift in memory of Sydney’s Great Synagogue stalwart Lionel Green has been recognised with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque. Read more

Meaningless and meaningful words

As the well-known saying proclaims, actions speak louder than words. If our actions don’t change, the words become meaningless. Read more

Israel’s Watergate Affair

Police planted spyware on the mobile phone of a key witness involved in former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged corruption cases, prompting officials to demand a swift investigation into the allegations and a dismissal of the charges against him. Read more

Israel ‘must go on offensive’ to counter fallacious content by Amnesty International, urge watchdogs

Israel’s government and a host of Jewish groups denounced Amnesty International’s new report condemning Israel for “the crime against humanity of apartheid.” Read more

Legal experts expose biased research, reliance on terror organizations in Amnesty International report

Amnesty International’s latest controversial report released on Feb. 1 during a press conference in Jerusalem, this time accusing Israel of apartheid, has come under fierce condemnation from the Israeli government and Jewish groups around the world as being “anti-Semitic.” Read more

NSW parliamentary hears evidence as why Nazi symbols should be banned

Jewish groups are urging the NSW Parliament to pass a bill to ban Nazi symbols being publicly displayed amid a rise in right-wing extremist activity. Read more

Shabbat Terumah

We are now reading about the construction of the Tabernacle.  Its design and its contents. Its dimensions are similar to many ancient religious structures that have been found across the ancient Middle East both in the construction of palaces and temples, and they mirror the dimensions of Noah’s Ark and the three levels of Sinai. Read more

Israel donates aid for Tonga from New Zealand

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand Ran Yaakoby has presented to the Co-Chair of the Aotearoa Tonga Relief Committee Jenny Salesa MP two containers of  of food and aid to be delivered to Tonga

on behalf of Israel’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Read more

‘Gross misrepresentation of reality’: Israeli-Arabs condemn Amnesty report on Israel

Israeli Arabs and organizations working toward coexistence rejected and condemned the new report released by Amnesty in which it accused Israel of conducting an apartheid regime, saying its findings were “false and defamatory.” Read more

1.5 million years old bone found in Jordan Valley, earliest evidence of ancient humans in Israel

A new study, led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, The University of Tulsa, and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), unveiled a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra discovered in Israel’s Jordan Valley. Read more

Kotel Foundation ‘shocked’ by conduct of Women of the Wall

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the administrator of the holy site, expressed “shock” at the activities of the Women of the Wall following “severe physical violence perpetrated by this group.” Read more

Feb-20 10:05 pm SBS-TV: Every Family Has a Secret

Ellis Treleaven always believed she had been born in Amsterdam towards the end of WWII. Read more

Nides responds to Amnesty report accusing Israel of apartheid: ‘This is absurd’

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides has called the report by Amnesty International accusing Israel of apartheid “absurd.”
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