Author: Jmedia Manager
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Leah Koenig opens eyes to breadth of Jewish food
A Melbourne reader invited us once to celebrate Shabbat with her family in their modest home in Melbourne’s Caulfield North. It was a touching night. The food? Challah, roast chicken, matzoh ball soup — meh. Kosher wine (I brought that) … unremarkable. But the experience? Surreal. Intimate, actually. I didn’t know Jews existed until the…
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What to watch on the Box this Week
South Tel Aviv is turned into Israel’s largest, most troubled enclave of the displaced in Asylum City. Following the murder of Michal Poleg (Mali Levi), a fierily committed young social activist working with the largely Eritrean and Sudanese refugees who have turned South Tel Aviv into Israel’s largest and most controversial enclave of the displaced,…
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Israel targets masterminds behind controversial iSignthis clients
Troubled tech group iSignthis is facing more potential regulatory headaches after it emerged US and Israeli authorities are pursuing legal action against the masterminds behind three of its customers over an alleged $150 million fraud. iSignthis is not involved in the legal action, but the court cases and the decision by the Australian courts to…
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Protests in Iraq and Lebanon pose a challenge to Iran
Baghdad: The day after anti-government protests erupted in Iraq, Iranian General Qassim Soleimani flew into Baghdad late at night and took a helicopter to the heavily fortified Green Zone, where he surprised a group of top security officials by chairing a meeting in place of the Iraqi Prime Minister. The arrival of Soleimani, the head of…
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Palestinian Film Festival 2019: Acclaimed Gaza movie screens in Hobart
The Palestinian Film Festival, which is screening for only the second time in Tasmania, aims to raise awareness of a delicate — and deadly — political issue by shining a light on the people most affected by it. ASPIRING cellist Karma Khaial sits among the rubble of an arts centre destroyed by war on the…
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Talking Point: Fatah and Hamas are allowed to keep this horror film playing
“Oh, you seven million Palestinians abroad, enough warming up! There are Jews everywhere! We must attack every Jew on planet Earth — we must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help.” These chilling words by veteran Hamas official Fathi Hammad at a rally in Gaza last July urging Palestinians to kill Jews, not Israelis, is…
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Trump’s Mid-East retreat raises the threat of war
If Saudi Arabia goes ahead with a float of a large chunk of its state-owned Aramco oil company, Chinese could be among the biggest buyers, in the view of Israel’s most brilliant strategic analyst, Ehud Yaari. That would not transform the Middle East overnight but would be a sign of diminished US influence. Nothing in…
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Ancient mystery solved: Dazzling ‘treasure tunnels’ found in Israel
It was the valiant last stand of the Templar Knights. They fought furiously to save civilians – and their treasure. But it all came tumbling down around them. Now, archaeologists are digging through the rubble. “These warrior monks are the stuff of legend and so is their gold,” says National Geographic presenter and archaeologist Albert Lin. “During…
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Israel vow to extradite teacher Malka Leifer
An Australian delegation in Israel including former prime minister John Howard has been promised that the Israeli government will extradite former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer as soon as it is ordered by the court. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, the leader of the Blue and White party, both made…
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WhatsApp sues Israeli firm over spies’ global ‘hacking spree’
Washington: WhatsApp is suing Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is…