Phantom of the Opera: Murray Dahm talks with Naomi Johns
March 25, 2022 by Murray Dahm
Naomi Johns was very excited to be involved in her first-ever Opera Australia publicity when I spoke with her ahead of the opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s Phantom of the Opera production which opens tonight. Read more
Beware the Ides of March
March 25, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Any history student of Julius Caesar’s life will instantly recognize the significance of the Ides of March. Read more
PM Bennett and Russia’s Putin discuss Ukraine war, again
March 24, 2022 by TPS
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday evening, the latest conversation between the two in several that took place in recent weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more
NSW first state to adopt the IHRA definition
March 24, 2022 by Henry Benjamin
The NSW parliament has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Read more
L’Chaim – Go Life: Podcast/Jenny Aharon – The EU perspective on the Ukraine and the Iran deal
March 24, 2022 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein talks with Jenny Aharon, who is the Director of Golden Gate public affairs, advisor on European Union-Israel affairs. Read more
LinkedIn makes first Israeli acquisition for total of $80 million
March 24, 2022 by JNS
In its first Israeli acquisition, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is acquiring Israeli marketing-analytics platform Oribi for $80 million. Read more
Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies of cancer at age 84
March 24, 2022 by JNS
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of State, has died of cancer at the age of 84. Read more
Israel opens humanitarian field hospital in war-torn Ukraine
March 24, 2022 by Agencies
On Tuesday, Israel began accepting patients at its humanitarian field hospital in western Ukraine, where it will treat people affected by the war raging in the country. Read more
At latest UN Security Council session, Israel faces continued scrutiny, despite coming under increasing terror attacks
March 24, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
By the time the meeting was over, four Israelis were dead, as part of a growing spate of terror attacks that has the capacity to help light the region ablaze. Read more
Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?
March 24, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you can’t win. Read more
Gazan terror groups attempt to ‘hitch a ride’ on Beersheva terror attack
March 24, 2022 by Yaakov Lappin
The deadly car-ramming and knife-stabbing spree carried out in Beersheva on Tuesday by Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, a 34-year-old Bedouin Israeli man and ISIS supporter, saw attempts by Gazan terror factions to “hitch a ride” on the violence and to further inflame the fans of terrorism. Read more
A mother of three, a rabbi – these are the victims of the Be’er Sheva attack
March 23, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
An Islamist terrorist, a Bedouin with Israeli citizenship, stabbed and murdered four Israelis, two women and two men, in the city of Beer Sheva on Tuesday evening, the deadliest attack the country has experienced since 2017. Read more
On the other hand
March 23, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
According to long-time locals and weather experts, this current winter has been the coldest, bleakest and longest we have experienced in recent memory. Read more
Feintooner
March 23, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon. The two faces of moral hypocrisy. Read more
Why can’t Jews and non-Jews paray together?
March 23, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Swimming with the tide: athlete, actor, volunteer and Israeli supporter Mark Spitz
March 23, 2022 by Howard Blas
Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in the 1972 games. Read more
US prepares to sign major appeasement deal with Iran
March 23, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
As the Biden administration prepares to sign a final deal with Iran that has been lambasted by numerous experts as nothing short of a major appeasement of the Islamic regime, Washington is now also weighing the removal of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from a terror blacklist in return for a public commitment from Iran to de-escalation in the region. Read more
The power of laughter: IDF medical clown volunteers with Ukrainian refugees
Two weeks ago, Nimrod Eisenberg—a military medical clown—was ordered to get ready for a possible trip to war-torn Ukraine, “a kind of call up of reserve forces.” Only in his case, instead of packing an ironed uniform and a beret, he filled his duffel bag with a felt duck, colourful juggling balls, a clown hat, balloons, and last but not least, a red foam nose. Read more
Report: Bennett considers Ukraine visit to promote negotiations with Russia
March 23, 2022 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that he would accept Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s invitation to visit the country on the condition that it made progress in talks with Russia, Ynet learned on Monday. Read more
Zelensky’s unfortunate Knesset address
March 23, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Clearly realizing, or having been told by advisers, that he’d crossed a line in his Zoom speech to the Knesset on Sunday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky subsequently softened his tone. Read more
Source: Republican leader whips up votes against antisemitism nominee Deborah Lipstadt
March 23, 2022 by Dmitriy Shapiro
Ahead of a likely vote on the nomination for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, how many Republicans, if any, will vote to favorably report her nomination out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee remains to be seen. Read more
US, UN condemn terror attack in southern Israeli that killed four people
March 23, 2022 by JNS
International officials condemned the Tuesday terror attack that killed four civilians and wounded at least two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Read more
Beersheva terrorist appeared to have ‘acted in line with ISIS manuals’
March 23, 2022 by Yaakov Lappin
Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, an Israeli man in his mid-30s from the Bedouin town of Houra who murdered four Israelis in a combined car-ramming and knife-stabbing attack in Beersheva on Tuesday, appeared to have acted in line with instructions found in ISIS attack manuals, a senior terrorism expert has told JNS. Read more
Israel’s Shining Star field hospital in Ukraine opens
March 23, 2022 by TPS
Israel’s “Shining Star” field hospital in the city of Mostyska in western Ukraine opened on Tuesday with a special ceremony that was attended by representatives of the Ukrainian government, the Deputy Minister of Health, the Governor of the Lviv district, and Mayor of Mostyska, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Israeli Embassy in Ukraine, the head of the delegation and other officials. Read more
42% of Arabs in Israel define themselves first as Arabs, 24% as Muslims and 17% as Palestinians
March 23, 2022 by TPS
About 42% of Arabs in Israel define themselves first and foremost as Arabs, 24% define themselves primarily as Muslims, and about 17% define themselves as Palestinians, according to a new survey conducted for the Haifa Conference on Arab Politics and Society in Israel at Haifa University. Read more
Bus driver who shot Be’er Sheva terrorist identified, can’t get his weapon back
March 23, 2022 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
The Egged bus driver who shot and killed the terrorist who murdered 4 people in a stabbing attack in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday has been identified as 44-year-old Artur Haimov. Read more
Four Israelis murdered, several injured, in terrorist stabbing attacks in Be’er Sheva
March 23, 2022 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
Two different stabbing attacks were perpetrated by terrorists Tuesday afternoon in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva – one at a gas station and the other at an outdoor mall on Yitzhak Nafha Street. 4 innocent civilians were murdered and one terrorist was killed at the scene. Read more
Israeli doctors implant world’s thinnest artificial cornea
March 23, 2022 by TPS
Israeli doctors achieved a medical breakthrough in the ophthalmology department at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem with the first implant of the thinnest artificial cornea ever printed in the world. Read more
Wollongong Art Gallery may be lauding an ex-Nazi
March 22, 2022 by Henry Benjamin
Bronius Sredersas was not a big earner but he amassed a fortune in carefully selecting prime Australian art and objets d’art which covered the walls of his very humble home on the Wollongong. But now there is hunt for the verification that the Lithuanian was a member of the SD death squads which killed tens of thousands of Jews during WWII. Read more
Two community stalwarts appointed to the Australian Multicultural Council
March 21, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Nathalie Samia and John Searle are among the 17 members appointed by the Australian Government to serve on the Australian Multicultural Council (AMC) for its next three-year term. Read more
