Assistant Foreign Minister to headline ZFA Biennial conference
October 27, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts will headline the 2022 Zionist Federation of Australia Biennial Conference, to be held on Sunday. Read more
Libs to make Jerusalem election issue
October 27, 2022 by AAP
The federal coalition will take the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to the next election. Read more
Kanye West’s net worth plummets after Adidas cancels partnership for anti-Semitic comments
October 26, 2022 by JNS
Kanye West’s net worth dropped from $2 billion to $400 million after Adidas ended its “Yeezy” brand partnership with the rapper on Tuesday, according to a report from Forbes. Read more
Why Israeli firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir is soaring in polls, and why the left calls him a racist
October 26, 2022 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
The rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir is one of the major storylines of Israel’s fifth election cycle in little more than three years. Read more
The danger of another Israeli electoral deadlock
October 26, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s falsely dubbed “centre left” Labor Party, doesn’t even bother these days to temper the radicalism that makes her indistinguishable from Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On. Read more
IDF will act ‘whenever we have precise intelligence on terrorists’
October 26, 2022 by Yaakov Lappin
The Israel Defence Forces will act on all precise intelligence on terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, which threatens Israeli civilians or security personnel, a military official told JNS on Tuesday. Read more
Rishi Sunak inaugurated as Britain’s prime minister
October 26, 2022 by JNS
Rishi Sunak was inaugurated as Britain’s new prime minister on Tuesday, just days after fellow Conservative Party member Liz Truss resigned from the position and after securing the Tory leadership without a vote. Read more
DanceX Part II: reviewed by Alex First
October 26, 2022 by Alex First
The Australian premiere of Johan Inger’s comic, romantic dance theatre piece I New Then, set to songs by Van Morrison, is superb. Read more
Chris Minns visits Our Big Kitchen
October 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
NSW opposition leader Chris Minns has visited OBK, the Bondi community kitchen providing humanitarian support for the needy and emergency services. Read more
International Day of the Girl
October 25, 2022 by J-Wire
The National Council of Jewish Women NSW has commemorated the International Day of the Girl with a large-scale creative charity event. Read more
Israel should stay out of the war in Ukraine
October 25, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Eight months into Russia’s brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine, two things are clear about the conflict. Read more
Gantz offers early warning system but no weapons to Ukraine
October 25, 2022 by JNS
Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov, on Monday and offered to provide the war-torn country with an alert system for early warning of Russian missile and drone attacks. Read more
The UN gives a master class in anti-Semitism
October 25, 2022 by Anne Bayefsky
Guilty of Nazi-like crimes. That’s the verdict of a United Nations “commission of inquiry” on Israel that was created by the U.N. Human Rights Council to commit the Nazi-like crime of demonizing and destroying the Jewish state. Read more
Five Palestinians killed in West Bank raid
October 25, 2022 by AAP
Israeli troops have raided a stronghold of an armed group in the occupied West Bank’s second-largest city, blowing up an explosives lab and engaging in a firefight in which five Palestinians were killed, the military says. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rabbi Dr David Hailperin – A Colourful Tale
October 25, 2022 by Features Desk
Among the many colourful Jewish figures to appear in the annals of Australia’s early history, David Hailperin remains unique. Read more
Parliamentary praise for The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies
October 25, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Liberal Scott Farlow moved a motion in the NSW parliament supported by all parties praising The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and acknowledging recently retired president Lesli Berger. Read more
Vic Alhadeff elected director for Australian Republic Movement campaign
October 25, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Former CEO of The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, Vic Alhadeff, has been elected one of nine new directors of the national committee of the Australian Republic Movement. Read more
Netanyahu dominates Israel’s election
October 24, 2022 by AAP
At a dead-end road in a crime-hit town in central Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu stands on a mobile stage enclosed by a glass wall, pledging through a window to restore law and order as the crowd chants “Bibi the king.” Read more
Major General Herzi Halevi new IDF Chief of Staff
October 24, 2022 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
The government of Israel has approved the appointment of Major General Herzi Halevi as the 23rd Chief of Staff of the IDF. Read more
$18 Million USD to erect new Albert Einstein Museum at Hebrew University
October 24, 2022 by Tali Aronsky
Israel’s government has approved the establishment of the Albert Einstein Museum at the Safra Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the cost of $18 million USD / NIS 64 million. Read more
Two Polish women honoured by Yad Vashem as ‘Righteous among the Nations’
October 24, 2022 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
Two Polish women, Renata Rostborowska and her aunt Kristina Wojwodzka were posthumously named “Righteous among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum. Read more
Do animals have rights?
October 24, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the Rabbi… Read more
Is Israel returning to the policy of ‘Targeted Eliminations’?
October 24, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
Tamer Kilani, a 33-year-old leader of the Nablus-based terror cell Lion’s Den, was killed in an explosion in the early morning hours on Sunday. Read more
The ‘settler violence’ narrative and Knesset elections
October 23, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
The current spike in Palestinian terrorism, marked by dozens of rock-throwing, firebombing, stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks each day, was upstaged last week by what the local press and certain politicians were highlighting as an intolerable “surge in settler violence.” Read more
Israel must arm Ukraine
October 23, 2022 by Ben Cohen
As Russia continues to pound Ukrainian population centres with “kamikaze” drones manufactured in Iran, the time has surely come for Israel to arm the democratic government in Kyiv. Read more
White House ‘deeply disappointed’ by Palestinian pivot toward Russia
October 23, 2022 by JNS
The U.S. administration has criticized Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas for seeking to involve Russia in the peace process with Israel, Axios reported on Saturday. Read more
15th century Swiss knight’s graffiti found on Mt Zion
October 23, 2022 by TPS
The Israel Antiquities Authority’s Michael Chernin and Shai Halevi recently discovered graffiti dating back to the 15th Century on a wall in the “King David Tomb Complex” on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. Read more
On the other hand
October 23, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
We have just finished celebrating Succot, one of the three Pilgrim Festivals when Jews from all over the country, as well as from the Diaspora, would visit the Temple in Jerusalem. Read more
La Traviata: an opera review by Alan Slade
October 23, 2022 by Alan Slade
It’s always disappointing when you walk into the foyer ahead of a performance to read a sign advising that one of the principal players is not in the performance. Read more
Feintooner
October 23, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Kangaroo Switcheroo. Read more
