Author: Jmedia Manager
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Surging Benjamin Netanyahu rival launches party leadership challenge
Or Yehuda: Upstart Israeli politician Gideon Saar officially launched his bid to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as head of the ruling Likud party. Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving leader, but he’s been weakened by a corruption indictment that may force him out of office, as well as back-to-back failures to form a government this year. Saar’s…
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‘World-class’ Holocaust museum, Jewish community hub on the cards for Perth’s north
A Jewish community hub with a “world-class” Holocaust museum and daycare centre is on the cards for Perth’s northern suburbs, following a $6 million cash splash by the Morrison government. The plans include the redevelopment and expansion of the current Jewish Community Centre on Woodrow Avenue, Yokine, home to WA’s Holocaust Institute, office spaces and…
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Breaking the deadlock in Israel
Israel’s unprecedented third general election in less than a year, set for March 2, says much about the vibrancy of democracy in a country surviving in a sea of oppressive dictatorships. But it also speaks volumes about the failure of leadership and the triumph of personal ambition over good governance in the Jewish state when…
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Federal Government announces $6m for Perth Holocaust museum
THE Federal Government will spend $6 million to create a Perth Jewish precinct including a Holocaust museum. Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Stirling MHR Vince Connelly today announced a $6 million grant for redevelopment of the Jewish Community Centre in Yokine. In a statement, Mr Cormann said $300,000 was previously committed ahead of the…
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Middle East protests: Careful what you wish for
For all the good intentions and international support, a local patronage system is the true lodestone on the region. Popular protests in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran once again mark the level of dissatisfaction that much of the Middle East has with their governments. Calls for freedom and human rights, jobs, and an end to corruption…
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PewDiePie is ‘taking a break’ from YouTube in 2020: ‘I’m tired’
Seems making YouTube videos is exhausting, with the internet’s most famous gamer PewDiePie announcing he’s “taking a break” in 2020 because of burnout. “I’m feeling very tired,” PewDiePie (aka Felix Kjellberg) told fans during his latest Pew News video, posted on December 14. In March he became an inadvertent poster boy for the far right…
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Protests turn violent in Beirut
Beirut: Lebanese security forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters for a second straight day on Sunday, local time, ending what started as a peaceful rally in defiance of the toughest crackdown on anti-government demonstrations in two months. The violence came on the eve of a meeting between the…
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Brazil committed to Jerusalem embassy move in 2020, says Netanyahu
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has been given assurances by the son of Brazil’s president that Brazil will follow the United States and move its embassy to Jerusalem next year. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signalled before he intends to move his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, but…
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Jojo Rabbit: Hitler humour and a child’s eye view of war
A Disney Hitler comedy by Taika Waititi – the Kiwi director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok – tests the line between funny and Führer. Jojo Rabbit is not Disney Studios’ first foray into Hitler parody. In 1943, it produced der Fuehrer’s Face – an anti-Nazi film inside Donald Duck’s nightmares. Now, Disney is the Australian distributor of Jojo Rabbit, a…
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Christopher Pyne: The hotel where world history is made
It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In Israel that means it’s either cold and sometimes snowing in Jerusalem but crisp during the day, much like a Canberra winter’s day, or it’s cool but possibly even sunny on occasion in Tel Aviv and in that cosmopolitan city, there could be intrepid swimmers still out on the…