Author: Jmedia Manager
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‘Blood boiling’: Orthodox Jewish women on Netflix’s new reality hit
Almost as quickly as reality series My Unorthodox Life started streaming on Netflix, an opposing hashtag was born on social media: #MyOrthodoxLife. Through it, a legion of Jewish women wanted to dispel myths put forth in the Netflix show: that religious life is prohibitive, suppressive, diminishing. That’s been the line of its reality star Julia Haart, 50, who…
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Australian doctor on fighting COVID-19 while under Israeli bombardment
The Palestinian territories are on the verge of a fourth COVID-19 wave, as the number of people infected with the Delta variant continues to rise. But it’s near impossible to get an accurate picture of the outbreak after Gaza’s only testing centre was destroyed in May during intense fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant…
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Why Iran is stepping up its maritime piracy
On Tuesday there was an attempted hijacking of a tanker in the Gulf of Oman. According to the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), nine armed men boarded a Panama-flagged tanker before leaving several hours later – reportedly after the ship’s crew sabotaged the vessel’s engines. The UK believes this attempted hijacking was the latest in…
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Shah’s son urges West to drive ‘nail in coffin’ of Iran clerical state
Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last shah, believes the clerical state that toppled his father is on the brink of crumbling. What Iranians need now, he says, is stronger support from the West. As ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in Tuesday as the eighth president of the Islamic republic, Pahlavi, who lives in exile…
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Boarders exit tanker off UAE coast
Boarders have left a tanker that maritime sources had said was seized off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and the vessel is safe, Britain’s maritime trade agency reports. Three maritime security forces had told Reuters on Tuesday that the asphalt/bitumen tanker Asphalt Princess had been seized by suspected Iranian-backed forces, which Iran denied.…
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Is it too late to stop Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold?
Indirect negotiations in Vienna between the United States and Iran about the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) seem to be going nowhere. The Iranians apparently decided to leave the talks until after anti-Semitic hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, mass executioner of his own people, takes office as president, which happens this week. Whatever the outcome of the…
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Why is vaccinated Israel reinstating COVID restrictions?
Israel has the highest full vaccination rate in the world and the fourth highest overall vaccination rate: Yet its government is reinstating COVID restrictions due to a surge in infections after reopening last month: From the Jerusalem Post: Starting August 20, the full green pass system will be in place again, and starting Sunday, masks will…
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Israel vs Palestine
When the point scoring dies down there’s no question that since the British colonial occupiers of Palestine decided to enable a Jewish State in that land that it has been a disaster for the resident Palestinians. In 1948 the United Nations declared the new State of Israel under defined boundaries stimulated by the horrors of…
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Calls to outlaw ‘ghoulish trade’
Jewish groups have condemned an antiques dealership in regional NSW for selling artefacts from the Third Reich and renewed calls for the government to criminalise the sale of Nazi memorabilia. The antiques dealer says while he understands the sensitivity around the Holocaust, the items are part of history. Among items for sale at Robinson Ordinance…
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Iran ultraconservative Raisi inaugurated as president
Iran’s newly-inaugurated ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi vows that his government will endeavour to get US sanctions lifted but will not wait for foreign help to rescue the battered economy. Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi was Tuesday inaugurated as president of Iran, a country whose hopes of shaking off a dire economic crisis hinge on reviving a nuclear…