Author: Jmedia Manager
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Talking Point: Why suffering and deprivation create the most joyous art
The State Cinema in North Hobart regularly hosts film festivals from around the world. But this weekend it is a festival with a difference — a series of films that record what it is like to live in an ancient land but to be stateless and oppressed daily by apartheid. The Palestinian Film Festival is…
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Ride Like An Anzac
On the 102nd anniversary of the Battle of Beersheba, this program showcases participants in the Light Horse Re-enactment and the ‘Ride like an Anzac’ commemorative bike ride. Watch the ABC TV program on Compass.
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Christopher Pyne: The curious case of Malka Leifer
Israel is the country in the Middle East that Australia praises most for its commitment to the rule of law – but the case of accused molester Malka Leifer is the test of that system, writes Christopher Pyne. Malka Leifer was brought from Israel to Melbourne in 2000 to be the principal of the Adass…
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Teen charged with threatening to kill bullied Jewish student, boy’s mum
A Victorian schoolboy has been charged with stalking, harassing and threatening to kill a bullied Jewish schoolboy and the boy’s mother. The 16-year-old is accused of threatening a 12-year-old Jewish boy who was photographed kissing another boy’s shoe in a widely reported anti-Semitic bullying episode in Melbourne’s south-east. The teenager will face the Childrens Court…
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The subtle, ongoing revolution of Iran’s film industry
One of the distinctive qualities of Iranian cinema is its perceptive but unsentimental focus on children. For whatever reason, there seems to be no shortage of young actors whose natural, unaffected performances bring to life the social and familial conflicts cooked up by the adults around them. Take Sara (Niousha Alipour) and Ali (Youna Tadayyon)…
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Why There’s So Much Hype Around Netflix’s Latest Docuseries ‘The Devil Next Door’
The series follows the trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi war criminal from World War II. f a series title is preceded by the genre true-crime or murder-mystery, it’s likely that audiences are going to be intrigued. Where it was the case that action blockbusters used to dominate the streaming services, it…
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Palestinian Authority’s censorship attempt prompts backlash
Featured: Faten Elwan, journalist Ammar Dwaik, director, Palestine’s Independent Commission for Human Rights Nadeen Baboun, West Bank entrepreneur The Palestinian Authority has been embarrassed by an intense public backlash against its latest attempt to suppress domestic dissent. The Authority administers the Palestinian cities and towns in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and has been trying to…
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Former grand Jerusalem street attributed to Pontius Pilate
A former grand paved street likely used by Jewish pilgrims as they made their way to the Temple in Jerusalem was built by Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea who is recorded in the Bible as washing his hands of of Jesus’ death, according to Israeli archaeologists. The almost 600 metre long and eight…
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Bail granted to man over alleged sex assault at Orthodox Jewish centre
Member of Melbourne’s Orthodox Jewish community “fear” the release of a former youth leader charged with the alleged sexual assault of a child in Bondi in the 1980s, a court has heard. The 51-year-old was granted bail to return to Melbourne at Central Local Court on Thursday, having been charged with a category four sexual…
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Scott Morrison backs Malka Leifer’s extradition from Israel
Scott Morrison assured the “brave and courageous” alleged sexual abuse victims of Malka Leifer he has not forgotten them, as he ramped up Australia’s fight to extradite the former Melbourne school principal from Israel. The government first issued an extradition request in 2014 and has increasingly pressured Israel to return the 52-year-old after she fled…