Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA
March 28, 2024 by Alex First
Cirque du Soleil reviewed by Alex First Read more
Chicago
March 27, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7
In a no-holds-barred interview, former U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom that he supports Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and that he would have responded to the Oct. 7 attack in a very similar way. Read more
Hamas praises UN Security Council vote on Gaza ceasefire
Hamas on Monday thanked the U.N. Security Council for passing a resolution demanding a temporary halt to the Israel Defencce Forces operation against the terror group in the Gaza Strip. Read more
US, Israel defence chiefs to meet as Gaza tensions rise
March 26, 2024 by AAP
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to meet with his Israeli counterpart and discuss ways to defeat Hamas other than conducting a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Pentagon says. Read more
Need money to complete a short film project?
March 26, 2024 by J-Wire
Applications close for the JIFF Short Film Fund Monday 1 April. Read more
West Side Story – reviewed by Shirley Politzer
March 26, 2024 by Shirley Politzer
What makes a good night at the theatre?- a story that resonates, vibrancy, colour, emotion, great music, talented musicians and choreography, purposeful lighting, clear sound, the list goes on. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
March 26, 2024 by Features Desk
Sir Samuel Sydney Cohen KBE – an outstanding businessman, Jewish community leader and political activist Read more
Netanyahu says US ‘abandoned’ Israel in UN vote
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the US of “abandoning” Israel after it abstained in a vote held Monday by the UN Security Council, calling for a suspension of fighting in Gaza during the remaining two weeks of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read more
Zombie! The Musical
March 25, 2024 by Alex First
A Sydney theatre review by Alex First Read more
Feintooner
March 25, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Montreal Purim ShpieLibel 2024 Read more
Israel tags Guterres and UN as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
March 25, 2024 by David Singer
Israel’s patience with the United Nations (UN) has finally, and justifiably, exploded with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling out the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN and its agencies as being both antisemitic and anti-Israel. Read more
The Great Divide
March 25, 2024 by Alex First
A Sydney theatre review by Alex First
Jerusalem accepts deal to free female soldiers, Hamas yet to respond
March 25, 2024 by JNS
Israel has tentatively accepted a preliminary agreement brokered by the United States for the release of the female IDF soldiers held by Hamas in Gaza. Read more
Ex-UNRWA official: Hamas chief Haniyeh was one of our teachers
March 25, 2024 by JNS
The West is unhappy with UNRWA for giving rise to the top cadre of Palestinian leaders, former UNRWA official Ahmad Oueidat said in a March 14 interview on the London-based pro-Hamas Al-Hiwar Arabic-language satellite TV channel. Read more
Katz: UN ‘an antisemitic and anti-Israel body’ under Guterres
March 25, 2024 by Joshua Marks - JNS
Under the leadership of Secretary-General António Guterres, the United Nations has become “an antisemitic and anti-Israel body that shelters and emboldens terror,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday. Read more
The Russian dictator’s double terrorism standards
March 25, 2024 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Following Friday’s massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the outskirts of Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a video address to his nation. The slaying of “dozens of peaceful, innocent people … including children, teenagers and women,” he said, was a “bloody, barbaric, terrorist act.” Read more
Victoria Police calling for a system for protest permits
March 25, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Victoria Police has called for legislation changes to introduce a permit system for protests. Read more
AUJS meets Prime Minister Albanese
March 25, 2024 by J-Wire News Service
Fifty members of The Australasian Union of Jewish Students have visited Canberra, where they met major political leaders. Read more
ECAJ lodges complaints with the Australian Human Rights Commission against hate preachers
March 25, 2024 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has formally lodged complaints with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) against two Islamic preachers in western Sydney over speeches that were made late last year, recordings of which were uploaded online. Read more
Union leaders arrested at pro-Palestine port protest
The arrests of almost 20 pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally against an Israeli shipping company have been condemned as an attack on democracy but the NSW premier is backing the police action. Read more
The U.S. bans UNRWA funding for a year
March 24, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Shortly after Australia decided to lift a ban on funding UNRWA, the United States announced that its ban on the United Nations Refugees and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East would remain for one year. Read more
Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim
March 24, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Perhaps the best news I’ve heard out of Israel in recent months concerned the renaming of a holiday pastry. Read more
War is hell. Everywhere.
March 24, 2024 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
“War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” Read more
China, Russia veto US ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council
March 24, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Friday morning, saying the text didn’t go far enough in calling for a ceasefire in the war against Hamas in Gaza. Read more
Blinken’s Rafah blunder
March 24, 2024 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
In a press conference on Thursday in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated his opposition to an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, saying that such a move would be a “mistake.” Read more
Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians
March 24, 2024 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer believes the Palestinian people “want what any other people want: peace, security and prosperity.” Read more
As Israeli soldiers share PTSD struggles, Purim celebrations shift
March 24, 2024 by Sveta Listratov
In light of the ongoing war with Hamas, Israeli society is reevaluating one of its longstanding Purim holiday traditions — firecrackers. Read more
On the other hand
March 24, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Who would have believed this? The UN world happiness report for 2024 has just been issued and Israel appears as the fifth happiest. Read more
Two-state solution could follow Palestine recognition
March 22, 2024 by AAP
Recognition of a Palestinian state could pave the way for a two-state solution, Australia and Britain say. Read more
