South African activist changes after not finding ‘Black Only’ restrooms in Israel
February 22, 2023 by TPS
Desperate to find a restroom after a nearly nine-hour flight from Johannesburg, South African university student Klaas Mokgomole grabbed his carry-on and hurried off the plane…writes David Karsh. Read more
NASA to launch Israel’s first space telescope in 2026
February 22, 2023 by Pesach Benson
Israel’s first space telescope, ULTRASAT, will be launched by NASA into high Earth orbit in 2026, the Israel Space Agency and NASA announced on Tuesday. Read more
Adriana Lecouvreur: An opera review by Victor Grynberg
February 22, 2023 by Victor Grynberg
Francesco Cilea’s ADRIANA LECOUVREUR is a rarely produced opera nowadays, and this critic doesn’t recall ever seeing it before. Read more
Israel stands by to assist New Zealand
February 22, 2023 by J-Wire News Service
As New Zealand starts to recover from the deadly flooding experienced recently following Cyclone Gabrielle, Israel’s ambassador has offered the country whatever assistance Israel can provide. Read more
Feb-28 Sydney 6:39pm: Rooftop solar for Eastern Suburbs residents
February 22, 2023 by J-Wire
The Jewish Sustainability Initiative presents a rooftop solar information event. Read more
Netanyahu: Bringing Saudi Arabia into Abraham Accords would be ‘quantum leap’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday night said he was actively courting Saudi Arabia in an effort to persuade it to join in the Abraham Accords as that would constitute a “quantum leap” towards regional peace. Read more
Celebrating powerful women at the UIA Women’s Division events
February 21, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Women across Australia will join together for the UIA Women’s Division 2023 Campaign events on 19 March in Sydney, 22 March in Melbourne and 23 March in Perth. Read more
Palestinians claim new understandings reached with Israel
February 21, 2023 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that no new Israeli settlements would be established, Palestinian sources told the Tazpit Press Service that there is now a US-mediated understanding between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to lower tensions. Read more
Diverse religious Australians make moral case for the voice referendum
February 21, 2023 by Agencies
The Voice Referendum “Week of Action” has launched Statements from the Soul, a collection of passionate essays by Australians of diverse religions, making the moral case for Indigenous constitutional recognition through a Voice. Read more
15,000 Ukrainian Jews have immigrated to Israel since war began
February 21, 2023 by Pesach Benson
Ahead of the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israeli officials reported that in the last year, 15,000 Ukrainian Jews have immigrated to Israel. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Jonas Alfred Lipman – Actor, producer, film and theatre director, philanthropist and ‘colourful extrovert’
February 21, 2023 by Features Desk
Jonas, frequently known as “Joe’’, was born to Judah and Sylvia Lipman on 25 April 1877 in Adelaide, South Australia. Read more
Mar-01 4:00pm SBS-World Movies
February 21, 2023 by Features Desk
For nine months prior to World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission, opening its doors to over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Read more
Mar-04 5:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis
February 21, 2023 by Features Desk
In October 1934, around one million people are drawn to the Buckeberg in northern Germany. Read more
Feb-26 12noon SBS-Viceland: The Kimberley Cruise: The Full Journey
February 21, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Travelling by boat from Broome to Darwin, this route in Australia’s top end is a breathtaking coastline of open seas, bays, basins, islands and estuaries. Read more
Israel’s parliament advances law for judicial overhaul
February 21, 2023 by AAP
Israel’s parliament has voted to push ahead with a contested overhaul of the country’s judicial system championed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government that has sparked mass protests. Read more
Toddler refused to eat; doctors discovered ring in his throat
February 21, 2023 by Pesach Benson
In an unusual procedure, doctors at Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek Medical Center removed a ring stuck in the throat of a two-year-old boy. Read more
Olympic canoe star Fox continues Australian dominance
Olympic gold medallist Jessica Fox wasn’t prepared to be upstaged by her little sister Noemi, storming to victory in the final of canoe event at the Australian championships. Read more
Draft UN resolution demands end to Israeli ‘settlements’
A draft U.N. resolution that the Associated Press obtained demands an immediate halt to all Israeli settlement activities, condemning Israeli attempts to annex settlements and outposts and calling for their reversal. Read more
Why do I see so many Orthodox Jews drinking?
February 20, 2023 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Holocaust survivors in Sydney down to 2,000 What next for AAJHSD?
February 20, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Members of The Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants came together in Sydney’s Woollahra on Sunday for a frank, no-holds-barred forum to discuss and analyse the future of their organisation. Read more
Feintooner
February 20, 2023 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Inflated alliances Read more
Judges jeopardize Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine negotiations
February 20, 2023 by David Singer
The Government of Israel has been ordered to formulate and submit to the High Court of Justice by April 2 its plan for demolishing and evacuating the illegal Bedouin encampment of Khan al-Ahmar – compliance with which could have serious international repercussions and jeopardise negotiations begun on January 24 to create the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. Read more
Netanyahu confirms Iran attacked Israeli ship
February 20, 2023 by Pesach Benson
In his opening comments at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Iran recently attacked an Israeli shipping vessel in the Persian Gulf. Read more
On the other hand
February 20, 2023 by Michael Kuttner
Living in Israel one does not need a calendar to know when the next holiday is due or indeed which it is. Read more
Art: Alex First reviews Rone – Time
February 20, 2023 by Alex First
Geelong-born, Melbourne-based former street artist Rone (birth name Tyrone Wright) has crafted a remarkable time capsule three years in the making. Read more
Contrasts
February 17, 2023 by Michael Kuttner
A reader of J-Wire commented to me that it was left-wing socialists who had settled and developed what was then Ottoman-ruled and later British Mandated Palestine. Read more
Jewish case for sending Nikki Haley to the White House
Nikki Haley’s views on foreign policy, school choice and religious liberty are “clear strengths” that endears her to the Republican Jewish electorate, author and commentator Bethany Mandel wrote in an op-ed on Wednesday in The Forward. Read more
Can the whole world be wrong?
February 17, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
One of the mysteries of the war against Israel is the extent to which a monstrously twisted narrative about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs—casting the former as evil and the latter as sanctified victims—has been absorbed by so many people. Read more
Why?
February 17, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
Innocent worshippers were shot outside a synagogue. Read more
Opera Australia showcases premiere of Adriana Lecouvreur
February 17, 2023 by Features Desk
The Australian premiere of acclaimed Italian director Rosetta Cucchi’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur will feature an outstanding quartet of some of the world’s most extraordinary opera singers when it opens at the Sydney Opera House on Monday. Read more
