Mar-07 7:30pm Zoom: A discussion with Yuval Rotem

 

Mar-15 8:00pm SBS-TV: Great British Railway Journeys

Michael continues his travels through England’s Home Counties, beginning this time in Buckinghamshire at Stoke Mandeville, where he discovers the legacy of a German Jewish doctor who fled the Nazis to settle in Britain.

A shaken German Jewry opens arms to Ukrainian Jews

The inauguration of a Torah scroll at the newly refurbished Beth-Zion synagogue in former east Berlin on Sunday was supposed to kick off with a cheerful, musical street procession. Read more

Israel fears Western appeasement of Russia emboldens Iran

The United States, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany—known as the P5+1—appear to be closing in on a deal with Iran over its ongoing nuclear-weapons program. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Leonard “Jock” Livingston  – some say he was the best ever Australian Jewish batsman

Jock was born on 3 May 1920 in Sydney’s Hurlstone Park. Read more

Bennett holds first official meeting with Progressive Jewish leaders in six years

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with leaders of the Conservative and Reform Jewish organizations, from both Israel and abroad, at his office in Jerusalem Monday. Read more

Israel to support UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Israel will co-sponsor and vote in favour of a resolution at the United Nations condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “together with a decisive majority of the world’s countries,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced Monday during a briefing to reporters. Read more

Yad Vashem: keep Nazis out of Russia-Ukraine War

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, called on all parties to refrain from the use of terminology related to the Holocaust and analogies to Nazi Germany when relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more

World Zionist Organization to create space for 1000 Ukrainian families in new portable structures

The Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization is initiating a move to place about 1,000 new portable structures (large and permanent caravans) throughout the rural areas of Israel for the benefit of the absorption of new immigrants (olim) from Ukraine. Read more

Israel is navigating perilous diplomatic terrain in Ukraine

Ever since biblical times, the people of Israel have had to navigate the harsh terrain between clashing global powers. Now, here we are again, in Ukraine, having to maneuver between Russia and the West. The terrain this time around is exceedingly difficult, with significant security and ethical pitfalls along the way…writes Michael Oren. Read more

Will Israel find itself on the wrong side of the ‘changing’ world order?

With fighting raging in Ukraine, Israel finds itself torn between supporting independent Ukrainian sovereignty and not wishing to anger a newly belligerent world power in Russia. Read more

Meet Gillian Wess

Gillian Wess has recently been appointed as the CEO of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. She talks with J-Wire. Read more

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