Chief Rabbi sends a message on Rabbi Ingram’s new book launch

Rabbi Chaim Ingram has received a blessing from Commonwealth United Synagogue’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis after reading extracts from Rabbi Ingram’s fifth book Lattices of Love on Jewish prayer. Read more

Thank you, B’nai B’rith

Melissa Don Port, Executive Director NSW, JDC (The Joint) has presented a Certificate of Appreciation to B’nai B’rith NSW for their fundraising efforts towards the Ukraine Emergency Crisis Response. Read more

Australia’s new government rejects UN Right Council focus on Israel

Addressing fellow delegates following the release of the first report by the UNHRC’s Commission of Inquiry into alleged Israeli human rights abuses in Geneva,  Australia’s ambassador to the U.N. Amanda Gorely expressed the Australian government’s  “fundamental concerns” about the permanent inquiry and the “disproportionate scrutiny” of Israel. Read more

White House confirms Biden to arrive in Israel on July 13

The White House on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabia between July 13 and July 16. Read more

Leaders request Israel to commemorate global Jewish terror victims

Heads of major Jewish organizations, led by the Jewish Agency for Israel, delivered a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calling on the Israeli government to designate those killed in anti-Semitic incidents outside of Israel as official victims of terror. Read more

South African pro-Palestinian group calls for Justin Bieber to boycott Israel

Pop-music singer Justin Bieber is being threatened with being cancelled by an anti-Israel group in South Africa if the artist goes ahead with his planned tour stop in Israel. Read more

Hussein al-Sheikh is gradually stepping into Abbas’s shoes

Israeli and U.S. officials are watching Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ affairs with concern…writes Yoni Ben Menachem. Read more

Israel joins the Invictus Games

Israel, Colombia, and Nigeria are the three newest members of the newly developed Invictus Community of Nations, bringing the total number of community nations to 23. Read more

Jun-19 7:00pm Zoom : Anxiety issues in children post-Covid

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Israeli scientists uncover traces of fire dating over 800,000 years

Israel scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, using an advanced, innovative method they developed to detect nonvisual traces of fire, have seen the usage of fire at least 800,000 years ago, one of the earliest known pieces of evidence for the use of fire. Read more

Tributes to Lady Anna Cowen

Tributes have received the passing of Lady Anna Cowen who was the widow of former Australian Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen. Read more

Innovative exhibition focusing child survivors of the Holocaust

With funding from the Gandel Foundation, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) is designing a permanent exhibition with award-winning Art Processors to engage young visitors with the lessons of the Holocaust. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sidney Myer – creator of a department store empire

Sidney Baevski was born on 8 February 1878, in Krichev, then part of the Russian Empire and now known as the country of Belarus. Read more

Yair Lapid promises ‘whoever harms Israelis visiting Turkey will pay’

Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid called on Israelis not to travel to Turkey in light of the continuing terrorist threat posed by Iranian agents in that country. Also on Monday, Israel’s National Security Council raised its travel warning for Istanbul to its highest level, level 4. Read more

Masada hosts inaugural Jewish Educators’ Professional Learning Symposium

Sydney’s Masada College, together with The University of Sydney, welcomed 80 Jewish educators from across Sydney to the inaugural Jewish Educators’ Professional Learning Symposium. Read more

Austria, US, UK and 19 Countries against Human Rights Council’s Commission accusing Israel of human rights violations

Austria, the US, the United Kingdom, and another 19 countries from around the world have published a strong statement against the Commission of Inquiry (COI) established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following Operation Guardian of the Walls. Read more

Can I have a vegetarian option for my Shabbat dinner?

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Australian extremism focus ‘myopic’

A “myopic” focus on Islamist extremism in Australia since 2001’s September 11 attacks in the United States has come at the expense of monitoring the far-right movement, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has been told. Read more

Dr Quentin Tarantino

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino received an honorary degree–“Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa”–from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) at a festive ceremony during the 85^th Board of Governors (BOG) meeting. Read more

Yamina faction chair quits coalition increasing odds for new elections

Coalition MK and the leader of that party’s faction in the Knesset, Nir Orbach, has announced his intention to withdraw as a member of Israel’s current coalition government. Read more

EU restores PA funding unconditionally

Almost all of the EU member states- 26 out of 27 EU states – voted in favour of the decision to resume financial support for the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was suspended two years ago. In doing so, the EU relented on its demands for new measures that it had insisted be taken by the PA to renew funding. Read more

Forgive us – omitted on the Queen’s Birthday awards list

As expected, we have missed a couple of recipients of the Queen’s birthday awards list. Sorry to Graham and Deborah Read more

Israel testing robotic unmanned vehicle armed with drones

Israel will begin testing an unmanned Medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (M-RCV), developed by the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), the Tank and APC Directorate, and Israeli security industries, the Ministry of Defene announced today. Read more

Abbas to US envoy: ‘Our goal is to get rid of the occupation’

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas hosted a U.S. delegation on Saturday led by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf. Read more

How to kill a democracy

Israeli democracy is hanging by a thread. That is the lesson of last Monday’s testimony by prosecution witness and former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. Filber revealed that Netanyahu is not alone in the dock. Israel’s democracy is also on trial. Read more

Biden Israel & UN have two 100-year-anniversaries to celebrate

President Joe Biden’s postponement of his forthcoming trip to Israel this month due to “scheduling factors” gives Biden, the United Nations (UN) and Israel the opportunity to celebrate at UN headquarters the 100^th anniversaries of American and international support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…..Gnawing away at unification. Read more

Palestinian Authority education: No room for a two-state solution

Jerusalem’s Bedein Centre has analysed Palestinian Authority’s school textbooks. Read more

Queen’s Birthday Honours – the Jewish list for 2022

The percentage of women receiving awards today across Australia is 45%. Within the Jewish community, the percentage is 43%. Among those to receive their awards in the coming weeks is a Melbourne woman who will collect her partner’s. He died in August 2021 and she was awarded an OAM in January but did not receive it physically. This time she will be presented with her own award and her late partner’s.
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Qatar’s blood-stained World Cup

There was another significant announcement from an Arab capital last week about relations with Israel when Qatar—the wealthy Gulf nation that provides Hamas with financial and political support—confirmed that Israeli citizens would be permitted to attend the FIFA World Cup taking place there in November and December this year. Read more

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