Author: Jmedia Manager
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Facial recognition could help discover fate of Holocaust victims
“Face to Face” project asks people via social media to send in pictures for scans. An old photograph and modern face recognition technology could help two Israeli brothers find out how their father survived the Nazi Holocaust. Seeking clues to the past, Eli and Saul Lieberman turned to an Israeli research centre, which hopes to…
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75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Michael speaks to Vic Alhadeff, Chief Executive Officer of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, as survivors prepare to visit Auschwitz on the 75th anniversary of its liberation. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War 11 becoming a major site of the Nazis’…
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Australian detainee says she rejected invitation to spy for Iran
An Australian university lecturer jailed in Tehran says Iran tried to recruit her as a spy in exchange for her release, an offer she rejected in a letter smuggled out of prison. Cambridge-educated Kylie Moore-Gilbert begged to be allowed to leave the restrictive unit where she has served periods in solitary confinement. In letters smuggled…
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Iran tried to recruit me as a spy: jailed British-Australian
A British-Australian university lecturer jailed in Tehran has said she feels “abandoned and forgotten” and claimed Iran tried to recruit her as a spy. In letters smuggled out of her cell in Evin prison and seen by both The Times and The Guardian, Cambridge-educated Kylie Moore-Gilbert begged to be allowed to leave the restrictive unit where she has…
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Petition against Adelaide Fringe performer pictured in KKK costume gathers pace
A petition against a performer scheduled for the Adelaide Fringe Festival who was purportedly pictured wearing a Ku Klux Klan (KKK)-inspired outfit has gained more than 1200 signatures online and prompted an investigation by organisers. Sydney man Joshua Harrison started a Change.org petition called Fight Racism and anti-Semitism against a show called “50 Shades of…
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Pope condemns rise of anti-Semitism
Pope Francis has condemned the “barbaric resurgence” of anti-Semitism around the world, linking it to the rise of populism. Next week’s 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp should serve as a reminder not to become indifferent, Francis said to a delegation from the human rights and research group, the Simon…
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Israel securities regulator eyes rule changes for digital platforms
Israel’s markets watchdog said on Monday the authority would make regulatory changes to adapt to technological innovations such as digital markets. “The implication is that these platforms will provide a complete digital value chain for investors, from the underwriting stage to settlement and custodial services,” Anat Guetta, chairwoman of Israel Securities Authority (ISA), said at…
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Australia’s ABC News Considers the ‘Case Against Zionism’
The free market of ideas is a basic principle in all healthy democracies. But that doesn’t mean that there are no limits on what a newspaper should or should not publish. A piece written by one Salman Abu Sita, recently published by ABC Australia, claiming to make “The moral case against Zionism,” is a case in…
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The ABC promotes a rank anti-semite
The ABC has a track record of publishing material that is anti-Israel. The principal Jewish community organisations, AIJAC, ECAJ and AJA have repeatedly have repeatedly taken the ABC to task for promoting articles and programs that demean and demonise Israel1. Nevertheless, the ABC continues in this same vein, rarely apologising for its rank anti-Israel media…
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Every day Europe dithers, Iran’s uranium enrichment program grows
If the administration of President Donald Trump did indeed try to bully Europe into doing the right thing on Iran’s dangerous brinkmanship, this reflects poorly on both sides. Threatening Germany, France and Britain with a tariff on automobile exports to the US is the diplomatic equivalent of a nuclear option – the more egregious for…