Israel welcomes 20,000 Olim from Europe since outbreak of war in Ukraine
May 19, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Close to three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, Israel’s Ministry of Immigration and Absorption welcomed 20,000 Olim (new immigrants) from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, as part of the historic operation for emergency reception of refugees from Ukraine and its environs. Read more
Israel starts to export cannabis seeds to US
May 19, 2022 by TPS
After nearly a year of discussions, a shipment of cannabis seeds took off from Israel to the US on Tuesday night, the first-ever shipment of cannabis seeds from Israel to a foreign country. Read more
Queensland Hebrew radio show a rating winner
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
After only six months from its launch, Radio 4EB’s Hebrew radio show in Brisbane has become the station’s second most-streamed program. Read more
Scott Morrison: I love Australia
At the start of the campaign, the first thing I said is that I love Australia…writes Scott Morrison. Read more
Jun-11 2:00am SBS-World Movies: Asia
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire
Asia’s motherhood has always been an ongoing struggle rather than an obvious instinct. Read more
Jun-07 8.00pm SBS-TV: Great British Railway Journeys
May 19, 2022 by J-Wire
Michael Portillo’s Bradshaw’s-inspired rail tour of London continues in Hampstead where shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, a ground-breaking Jewish doctor found refuge. Read more
Bennett criticised, heckled while visiting family of fallen Special Forces operator
May 19, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett faced harsh criticism and heckling on his visit to the family of Special Forces operator Noam Raz at the community of Kida in Benyamin on Wednesday. Read more
Israel Climate Forum
May 18, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog have hosted the first convention of the Israeli Climate Forum. Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Pallbearers at funeral of Al Jazeera reporter were convicted terrorists
May 18, 2022 by TPS
The funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a senior journalist and one of the icons of the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, was a show of forces by the Fatah movement in eastern Jerusalem, and the pallbearers were convicted terrorists, TPS has learned. Read more
The angel of death?
May 18, 2022 by Henry Benjamin
It started with a comment by an unnamed Liberal quoted in The Saturday Paper describing former Prime Minister John Howard as “the angel of death” as he ventured forth to rally support for Josh Frydenberg in the battle for Kooyong. Read more
ABC complaints review falls far from the mark
May 17, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
National broadcaster ABC has announced it is appointing an ombudsman following a review of how the corporation deals with complaints. Read more
Jewish voters face stark choices
May 17, 2022 by Peter Wertheim
As reported on J-Wire, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) last month sent out questionnaires to the major parties and to individual candidates in the Federal seats of Wentworth, Macnamara, Goldstein and Kingsford Smith, with high percentages of Jewish voters, to gauge their policies and attitudes on issues of particular concern to the Jewish community, ahead of the May 21 election. Read more
OPHI analyses Buffalo attack
May 17, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
EU cuts its UNRWA budget by 40 percent
May 17, 2022 by JNS
The European Union’s 2022-24 UNRWA aid budget will be 40% lower than during the previous three-year period, the E.U. announced last week. Read more
UK to pass legislation preventing public bodies from engaging in boycotts
May 17, 2022 by David Isaac
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has resolved to pass legislation that will stop public bodies from adopting anti-Israel boycott resolutions. Read more
The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East in retrospect
May 17, 2022 by David Bedein
Lohengrin: an opera review by Alex First
May 17, 2022 by Alex First
Treachery and subterfuge abound in the Australian premiere of a new production of Richard Wagner’s otherworldly romance Lohengrin at the State Theatre, Arts Centre in Melbourne. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Isaac Isaacs
May 17, 2022 by Features Desk
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG – Australia’s first Jewish Justice of the High Court; the first Jewish Chief Justice of Australia and the first Jewish Governor-General of Australia Read more
Buffalo get condolences from Israel
Israeli officials have conveyed their condolences to the US, to New York’s State’s Governor Kathy Hochul, and to Byron Brown, the Mayor of the City of Buffalo, following the racist shooting in the city which left 10 dead and wounded three others. Read more
What is the Jewish view of pornography?
May 16, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Three years after being killed in secret op in Gaza, identity of the Special Forces operator revealed
May 16, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
On Sunday, three and a half years after Lt. Col. “M.” was killed in a secret mission in the Gaza Strip, the identity of the Special Forces operator was revealed – Lt.-Col. Mahmoud Kheir el-Din from Hurfish, a Druze town in the Galilee in northern Israel. Read more
Israel’s Independence Day celebration at UN features sustainable lab-grown meat
May 16, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan and the Israeli Mission to the UN hosted a celebration of Israel’s 74th Independence Day featuring sustainable meat and innovative Israeli protein substitutes, with about 250 participants, including dozens of UN ambassadors from around the world. Read more
Podcast: Liberal Tim Wilson responds to questions from “L’Chaim to Life”
May 16, 2022 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein asks Tim Wilson (Liberal – Goldstein) questions of Jewish community interest about Israel. Read more
UN & UNRWA should demand end to refugee camps in Gaza and West Bank
May 16, 2022 by David Singer
The tragic death of Palestinian Arab-USA journalist – Shireen Abu Akleh – caught in crossfire between Israeli security forces and armed Palestinian Arabs in Jenin – should serve as a clarion call to the United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to demand: Read more
Proposed US legislation to hold Jordan accountable for failure to extradite Hamas terrorist
May 16, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Right before Jordan’s King Abdullah II is to meet with U.S. President Biden at the White House, the parents of an Australian-American-Israeli teenager murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2001 are hailing proposed U.S. legislation that would hold the government of Jordan accountable for its years-long refusal to extradite the Hamas terrorist who facilitated the suicide bombing. Read more
Feintooner
May 16, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Bullets and Libels.
An American in Paris: a theatre review by Alex First
May 15, 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
Podcast: Labor candidate for Macnamara Josh Burns talks to L’Chaim – to Life
May 15, 2022 by Features Desk
Ahead of this Saturday’s federal election, incumbent Labor MP for the Melbourne seat of Macnamara features on this podcast. Read more
Israeli peace negotiator Uri Savir dies
May 15, 2022 by AAP
Uri Savir, a prominent Israeli peace negotiator and dogged believer in the need for a settlement with the Palestinians, has died aged 69, Israeli media reports say. Read more
‘Say yes to the world’ but no to the Jews: Lufthansa’s anti-Semitic scandal
May 15, 2022 by Ben Cohen
It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a connecting flight to Budapest, was so shocking. Read more
