Likud, United Torah Judaism sign preliminary coalition agreement

Likud and the United Torah Judaism party signed a preliminary coalition agreement on Tuesday. Read more

Nike drops Kyrie Irving following antisemitism scandal

Nike officially cut ties with NBA player Kyrie Irving on Monday, following a scandal in which the Brooklyn Nets star shared antisemitic content on social media and then failed to repudiate Jew-hatred. Read more

Is Alan Dershowitz right to warn against the ‘override clause’?

The enthusiastic response of the “anybody but Bibi” camp to a video message delivered on Friday by renowned criminal attorney Alan Dershowitz through the Hebrew news site Ynet is amusing. Read more

Germany issues arrest warrant for Israeli ‘Tinder swindler’ con man

Germany has issued an international arrest warrant for Israeli con man Shimon Hayut, aka “the Tinder swindler.” Read more

Ye: ‘Jewish people, forgive Hitler today’

In an interview released Monday night, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) continued his media tour of praising Adolf Hitler and spewing antisemitism. Read more

Former President Bill Clinton to receive honorary doctorate from Haifa University

The University of Haifa will award an honorary doctorate to former US President Bill Clinton, the university announced on Tuesday. Read more

Al Jazeera files lawsuit against Israel in The Hague over journalist’s death

Al Jazeera filed a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday over the death of its correspondent, Shireen Abu Akleh. Read more

Is the world waking up to the atrocities of the ayatollahs?

It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent tyranny that loathes women, dissidents and anyone who does not conform to its theocratic ideology. Read more

Netanyahu on criticism of coalition partners: ‘I ultimately decide policy’

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu attempted on Sunday to assuage critics of his emerging right-wing government by vowing to uphold Israel’s liberal democracy, pointing to his lengthy track record of guiding the nation and emphasising that the buck on devising policy stops with him. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rosa Smith  – her mission in life was only to help others

Rosa Smith was born Rosa Henriques in Port Maria, Jamaica, in 1853. Read more

Foster carers needed for Jewish children in Sydney

Sydney’s Jewish House is currently looking for people from the Jewish community who are interested in becoming foster carers who can support Jewish and other children in care. ​ Read more

Israeli study finds vaccine hesitancy predicts future COVID-19 vaccine side effects

While the production of COVID vaccines could have been the “light at the end of the pandemic tunnel”, this outcome was hampered at critical stages by vaccine hesitancy from the public. Read more

ECAJ calls for Australia to take strong measures against Iran

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has lodged a submission with the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee in response to its Inquiry into Human rights implications of recent violence in Iran. Read more

On the other hand

Have you ever tasted the difference between organically grown vegetables and the commercially available variety in supermarkets? Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: U.N.ETFLIX  Read more

NYT needs to end silence on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The visit to Hebron this week by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Kathleen Kingsbury, The New York Times Opinion Editor, could see the NYT finally breaking its silence on the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine proposal published in the Saudi Arabian government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022. Read more

$70,000 in grants for Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs

Member for the NSW State electorate Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton has announced that $400,000 in grants have been secured for 15 community organisations in the Vaucluse Electorate through the NSW Government’s 2022 Community Building Partnership Program. Read more

What is the best way to give charity?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Iran authorities execute four ‘Israeli spies’

Iranian authorities have executed four people accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency says. Read more

Walt Secord revisits historic Broken Hill Synagogue

NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair and State Labor MP Walt Secord last week paid a visit to the historic Broken Hill Synagogue and its museum in far western NSW. Read more

1982 Hakoah bomb attack

The NSW State Coroner has heard that the bombs were made by a known terrorist overseas. Read more

Reward for 1982 Sydney Hakoah terror bombings

A $1 million reward has been announced to help solve a 40 year mystery – the bombing of Sydney’s Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club which shook the Jewish community. Read more

Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake

A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again. Read more

Ye says he likes Hitler, pushes Holocaust denial in unhinged Infowars interview

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, tripled down on his antisemitism in a Thursday interview on Infowars, praising Hitler, pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories and defending Nazis. Read more

Circumcision

The month of Kislev that we have just entered is when we celebrate Chanukah and the rebellion against Greek overlords more than 2,000 years ago. Read more

Stable doors and bolting horses

This well known expression is generally understood as “to be so late in taking action to prevent something bad happening that the bad event has already happened.” Read more

Israeli hardliners to get settlements post

Israel’s designated prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a coalition deal that will give a hardline, pro-settler party control over a number of key government ministries and a senior role in overseeing the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Read more

Jack Chrapot tells Henry Greener why he is wild about Harry

AJAX Footy Stalwart Jack Chrapot has never missed a match day as a club man and junior team manager for over 40 years. Read more

UNRWA denounces tunnel discovered under Gaza school

The UN agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees announced that it discovered a tunnel underneath one of its schools in Gaza. Read more

Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander killed in shootout

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander and another terrorist were killed in a shootout with Israeli security forces early Thursday morning near Jenin. Read more

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