Aged Care Expo
March 29, 2022 by Community newsdesk
Despite the wet weather, more than 120 people gathered at Easts Bondi Junction on Sunday for the inaugural Aged Care Expo and Forum. Read more
The Abraham Accords: A historic milestone for peace, security and prosperity in the Middle East
March 29, 2022 by Ran Yaakoby
On 13th August 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates made the groundbreaking announcement that relations between the two countries would be normalised. Read more
Police arrest 12 Arabs in Northern Israel connected to Islamic terrorism
March 29, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The police raided several Arab towns in northern Israel on Monday night and arrested 12 suspects connected to Islamic terrorism, following Sunday night’s terror attack in Hadera in which two Islamic terrorists shot at Israelis, killing two Border Police troops and wounding some 10 others. Read more
IDF sends four extra battalions amid security tensions in West Bank
March 29, 2022 by JNS
The Israel Defence Force’s Judea and Samaria Division will receive four additional infantry battalions on Tuesday in the wake of two deadly ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Israel, Ynet reported on Monday. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past: Harold Boas – Architect, Town Planner and Community Leader
March 29, 2022 by Features Desk
This week we continue with the story of the Boas family. Read more
An American in Paris: A theatre review by Alex First
March 28, 2022 by Alex First
Once you learn that Robbie Fairchild was a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet you can understand why he glides so effortlessly across the stage in a stellar display as the centrepiece of An American in Paris. Read more
Bennett tests positive for COVID-19
March 28, 2022 by TPS
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday. Read more
Hiding in the same basement 81 years later
March 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Living alone in Odessa, 88-year-old Natalia Berezhnaya is one of over 40,000 elderly Jews JDC (The Joint) receiving care for in Ukraine. Read more
After warning of ‘settler violence’, Blinken condemns Hadera Islamic attack
March 28, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
After warning of “settler violence” as a source of tension and danger during the upcoming Muslim month of Ramadan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned an Islamic terror attack in the Israeli city of Hadera on Sunday night in which two Israelis were murdered and another 12 were injured by two apparent Islamic State (ISIS) supporters. Read more
Why should you not leave a siddur open?
March 28, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Two police officers killed in Hadera Attack; ISIS Claims Responsibility
March 28, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror organization claimed responsibility for the terror attack in the city of Hadera on Sunday night, in which two Israelis were murdered and another 12 were injured. Read more
The Phantom of the Opera: Victor Grynberg reviews the opera on the harbour
March 28, 2022 by Victor Grynberg
It’s 25 years since I first saw a production of THE PHANTOM, that time in the original production in London’s West End. Read more
‘Adopting the Palestinian narrative’: Bennett slammed for calling Judea and Samaria ‘West Bank’
March 28, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is facing harsh criticism after calling Judea and Samaria “the West Bank,” and his political opponents are calling for the toppling of his government. Read more
IS claim responsibility for Israel attack
March 28, 2022 by AAP
The Islamic State group have claimed responsibility for an attack in Israel, which it said killed two soldiers and injured 10, according to a statement posted on the group’s Telegram account. Read more
Feintooner
March 28, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Kumbaya at the Negev. Read more
Bennett meets Blinken
March 28, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem yesterday. Read more
Jordan-PLO-Egypt negotiations with Israel could be key to peace
March 27, 2022 by David Singer
The Negev Summit (Summit) taking place on 27 and 28 March – hosted by Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid– could be the catalyst for promoting the beginning of direct negotiations – without preconditions – between Israel, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Egypt – on the allocation of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza. Read more
America has to remain a leader in the fight against antisemitism
March 27, 2022 by Ben Cohen
In a departing interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in October 2012, Hannah Rosenthal—on her final day as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism—concluded by saying that “there will always be a need” for the post she held for three years. Read more
Israel hosts Secretary of State, 4 Arab FMs in historic Negev summit
March 27, 2022 by J-Wire
Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid is hosting the US Secretary of State and the Foreign Ministers of four Arab countries at “The Negev Summit” which will take place in Sde Boker today and Monday. Read more
Israel teams up with Australia and UK
March 27, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Embassy of Israel, the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, and Sheba Medical Centre in Israel held a webinar with experts from Australia, Israel and the UK on the topic of Long COVID. Read more
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Hosts zoom event
March 27, 2022 by Community Editor
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia recently hosted an event dedicated to showcasing global Torah learning programs that are available to Australian women who are wanting to further their Torah knowledge from the comfort of their own homes. Read more
Leo and Mina Fink: For the Greater Good – a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
March 27, 2022 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
For those of us of a certain age (say over 50) and raised in Melbourne’s Jewish world the names of Leo Fink and Mina Fink will recognise the names even if they did know them. Read more
On the other hand
March 27, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Israel has just passed a momentous milestone. Read more
The lesson of the Ukraine
March 25, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
The brutal violence of Putin (against dissidents as well as Ukraine) cannot be justified on any moral grounds whatsoever. Read more
The PA invited the Beersheva terror attack … and will reward it
Tuesday’s terror attack in Beersheva, in which four Israelis were murdered, is exactly the kind of attack the Palestinian Authority has been actively calling for…writes Itamar Marcus Read more
Family of terrorist in town of Houra deplore attack
March 25, 2022 by JNS
The extended family of Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, the 34-year old Israeli man from the Bedouin town of Houra in southern Israel who murdered four Israeli civilians in a terror attack on Tuesday, condemned his actions on Wednesday. Read more
Minor head injury leads to chronic syndrome in one of four kids
March 25, 2022 by Agencies
One in four children discharged from the emergency room after sustaining mild head injuries went on to suffer from a persistent post-concussion syndrome that can last for years, new Israeli research shows. Read more
Johnson criticizes UK universities for ‘being tolerant of antisemitism’
March 25, 2022 by JNS
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said universities in the United Kingdom have for “far too long been tolerant of casual or indeed systematic antisemitism.” Read more
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
March 25, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Two women and a rabbi were among four Israelis murdered in a terrorist attack this week in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Read more
Wollongong City Council awaits the review outcome
March 25, 2022 by J-Wire Staff
The Wollongong City Council is awaiting the results of reviews underway to assess the claim that Bronius Sredersas was involved in killing Jews in Lithuania in WWII before making its next move. Read more
