Jun-28 9:25pm SBS-Viceland: Movie – The Last Vermeer
June 7, 2023 by J-Wire
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, fought in the Resistance during the Second World War, the witty, debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren hosted soirees and sold Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Jun-29 8:30pm SBS-TV: Devil’s Confession: Lost Eichmann Tapes
June 7, 2023 by J-Wire
As the Eichmann Trial continues, Gideon Hausner persists in his pursuit of the damning Sassen Tapes. Read more
Jun 27 & 28 Sydney: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla: Live at the Great
June 7, 2023 by J-Wire
The Live at the Great series continues featuring one of Australia’s foremost violinists and a didgeridoo player. Read more
Vivaldi vs Piazzolla: Live at the Great
June 7, 2023 by Features Desk
The Live at the Great series continues featuring one of Australia’s foremost violinists and a didgeridoo player. Read more
Investigative journalist awarded the ONZOM in the New Zealand King’s Birthday and Coronation Honours
June 6, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Nicky Hager has been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to investigative journalism. Read more
‘From the deepest hole to the highest mountain’
June 6, 2023 by Etgar Lefkovits
The view from atop the world’s highest peak was breathtakingly stunning. Read more
Netanyahu speaks with Musk, Altman, drafting national AI policy
June 6, 2023 by JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone on Sunday night with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose “insight and contribution to humanity” the premier holds in “high esteem.” Read more
OpenAI CEO visits Israel to discuss AI’s opportunities and risks
June 6, 2023 by JNS
Israeli President Isaac Herzog met on Monday morning with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose ChatGPT has quickly become an international sensation. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Vaiben Louis Solomon
June 6, 2023 by Features Desk
Vaiben was born on 13 May 1853 in Adelaide, the son of Judah Moss Solomon – nephew of Emanuel and Vaiben – and mother Rachel. Read more
Burst pipes or bad history? Wellington City Council’s new role as the arbiter of international conflicts
June 6, 2023 by Juliet Moses
On 15 May, newbie Wellington City Councillor Nikau Wi Neera tweeted a photo of himself grinning like a schoolboy who has just been gifted a PlayStation and clutching a piece of paper. Read more
IsraAID heads guests at Sydney breakfast
June 6, 2023 by A J-Wire community service announcement
IsraAID leaders Global CEO Yotam Polizer and Chief Development & Communications Officer Tamar Kosky Lazarus will be guests at breakfast in Sydney sponsored by the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and Stand Up. Read more
First air taxi test conducted in Israel
June 6, 2023 by J-Wire News Service
Israel’s National Air Drone Initiative (INDI) has taken a significant step forward with another week of flight tests and demonstrations simultaneously taking place at various locations throughout Israel. Read more
The Greens shifts its Middle East policy
June 6, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
AIJAC National Chairman Mark Leibler has questioned The Greens’ credibility following the political party’s Middle Eastern policy announced on Sunday. Read more
US warns Israel against Jewish settlements expansion
June 6, 2023 by AAP
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged continued US commitment to both Israel’s security and a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict but warned the expansion of Jewish settlements would be an obstacle to peace. Read more
IFA Bans Beitar Jerusalem from playing in EUEFA for one year
June 6, 2023 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
The Israel Football Association (IFA) came down hard on one of the country’s most popular teams, Beitar Jerusalem FC, banning it for one year from EUEFA’s (European Football Association) professional competitions. Read more
Euphoria: an installation at the Melbourne Town Hall
June 6, 2023 by Alex First
As Gordon Gekko, in the 1987 Oliver Stone-directed hit film Wall Street, Michael Douglas said “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”…writes Alex First. Read more
A minute’s silence
June 6, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Funerals held for three IDF soldiers killed on Sinai border
June 5, 2023 by J-Wire
The three Israeli soldiers killed by an Egyptian policeman at the border over the weekend were laid to rest on Sunday. Read more
Pockets await “In My Pocket”
June 5, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Feintooner
June 5, 2023 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Love is Blind Read more
New Torah L’am scholarships on offer to Jewish women
June 5, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Australia is to partner with leading Jewishly UK to offer the Torah L’Am Course. Read more
Why is black the colour associated with bereavement and mourning?
June 5, 2023 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi! Read more
Historian Martin Kramer cites paradox behind Israel’s judicial reform controversy
June 5, 2023 by J-Wire News Service
AIJAC’s latest webinar featured eminent historian Professor Martin Kramer, past Director of Tel Aviv University’s Middle East Centre and Fellow at the Washington Institute for Middle East Policy. Read more
Biden in bind as Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution turns 1
June 5, 2023 by David Singer
President Biden must be feeling decidedly uncomfortable as the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) approaches its first birthday – with Israel and Saudi Arabia negotiating to possibly implement its terms – mediated by Bahrain – not the US. Read more
The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty
June 4, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
What’s the use of the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? Read more
Ahlam Tamimi’s 16th victim
June 4, 2023 by Ben Cohen
Twenty-two years after a Palestinian suicide bomber devastated the Sbarro pizza restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, the 16th victim of that massacre succumbed to her injuries. Read more
The Egypt border attack: Key questions
June 4, 2023 by Yaakov Lappin
There are several critical questions that the joint Israeli-Egyptian investigation into the deadly terrorist attack on the two countries’ shared border on Saturday must address. Read more
On the other hand
June 4, 2023 by Michael Kuttner
One of the funniest aspects of life in Israel, at least for English-speaking Olim, are the numerous bloopers that appear when Hebrew notices, signs and instructions are translated. Read more
Climbers – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First
June 4, 2023 by Alex First
It’s all good, clean, innocent, engaging, adventurous and flirtatious fun, until it isn’t. Read more
Jerusalem Post annual conference set to begin
June 4, 2023 by Avi Kumar
The Jerusalem Post will hold its annual conference in a year celebrating Israel’s 75th anniversary of independence.
