Author: Jmedia Manager
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The Goodlife and The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
Hot on the heels of Yom Kippur comes the eight day Jewish Festival, Sukkot. During the week of Sukkot Jewish families sleep, eat and entertain in huts, called sukkas – a bit like something you might see on Gilligan’s island and generally plenty of fun for the kids! At the heart of this festival are…
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Pompeo meets Netanyahu in Israel
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has underscored US-Israeli efforts to counter Iran in talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an apparent attempt to ease concerns in Israel that Tehran could exploit a US military pullback in Syria. Pompeo and Netanyahu met in Jerusalem hours after Turkey agreed with the United States to pause its…
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From Nazi labour camp to Melbourne suburbia, a family secret is revealed
Documentary maker Eve Ash grew up knowing little about her parents’ experiences during the Holocaust. Then, years after her mother’s death, she discovered a startling truth. t was the snow that helped Feliks Ash make his miraculous escape that night, the wispy, white snowflakes that drifted down over the barbed wire fences and brown brick…
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Former Orthodox Jewish youth leader extradited over Bondi sexual assault charge
A former Jewish Orthodox youth leader extradited to NSW to face an historic sexual assault charge remains “un-nourished” after going without kosher food while in custody, his barrister has told a court. Steven Doupe, who represented David Samuel Cyprys during his brief appearance before Central Local Court on Thursday, said his client had also been…
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Australia’s incredible shrinking department of foreign affairs and trade
Diplomacy could be helping to create a more favourable world for Australia’s interests, but with continuing budget cuts, it doesn’t seem like a priority It seems like every week the government is looking to cut spending somewhere in the budget as it chases after a surplus. How do individual government departments fare? Do some get…
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Antisemitism’s perfect storm
It’s the world’s oldest bigotry and it’s on the rise again. Antisemitism is associated with the darkest chapters of human history when humanity abandons civilised moral codes. Societies and ideologies which embrace it typically suffer a major decline if not complete destruction. Examples span the latter years of the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, the…
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We hit Iran with cyber strike, US says
The US carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran after September 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities, which Washington blames on Tehran, two US officials have revealed. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the operation took place in late September and took aim at Tehran’s ability to spread “propaganda”. One…
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Strange rescuers: my father’s Holocaust
Juliet Rieden is a newspaper and magazine journalist raised in Surrey in the UK. When she was a child she knew never to ask why there weren’t any uncles, aunts or cousins on her father’s Czech side of the family. She understood her father had been taken from Prague to the UK as a child…
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Australia has normalised Islamophobia. Is anti-Semitism next?
In 2015, a Reclaim Australia supporter at a rally in Melbourne told me that the reclaimers and “the students” (as he referred to the anti-racism protesters) had “just been set up to fight each other by the banks and the Rothschilds”. The reference to a notorious anti-Semitic conspiracy theory was unusual enough to make me do a…
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Former leader at Orthodox Jewish centre Yeshivah extradited to NSW
A former leader at an Orthodox Jewish centre in St Kilda East has been extradited to New South Wales to face historic sexual assault charges. David Samuel Cyprys, 51, was wanted over a sexual assault and act of indecency offence that occurred in the Sydney suburb of Bondi in the 1980s. He was arrested on…