Author: Jmedia Manager

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NSW Senator Andrew Bragg has attacked the “disgraceful challenge” against Josh Frydenberg’s eligibility to sit in parliament and said it was underpinned by “anti-semitism”. Speaking in the Senate this afternoon under parliamentary privilege, Senator Bragg described the Section 44 legal challenge against the Treasurer as “illegitimate” and driven by “people who have an obsession with…

Port Phillip police increase patrols at synagogues in inner south ahead of Jewish High Holy period

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in Herald Sun, Print

A slew of “abhorrent” anti-Semitic attacks and a graffiti “swastika contagion” have police on high alert ahead of the Jewish High Holy period. It comes amid fears aggression towards members of the Jewish community is “spreading like wildfire”. Port Phillip Inspector Nigel McGuire-White told the Leader patrols would be stepped up near synagogues and other sites of significance throughout…

WeWork may try to wrap its roadshow and price its IPO before the Jewish New Year on September 29

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in Business Insider Australia, Online

WeWorkCEO Adam Neumann may be trying to wrap up his company’s IPO “road show” and price the IPO in a matter of days. Neumann, who is Jewish, is hoping to finish up before the important two-day Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins. The holiday involves pausing all business and it begins on sundown of September…

Will Israeli voters give Bibi a “get out of jail” card?

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in Online, The Interpreter

The corruption allegations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are the subtext to the elections on 17 September. Next Tuesday’s Israeli Knesset (parliament) elections are unprecedented in the country’s history. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (“Bibi”, to friend and foe) has called them because he was unable to form a governing coalition after the elections held in…

Flawed Netanyahu is still Israel’s best hope for peace

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in Print, The Australian

Caterwauling sirens elevate the heart rate and spread dismay. Israel, which probably spends more time thinking about the art of war than any other country, has refined the use of the humble air raid siren: 250 layers of data are being fed into the homeland defence system so that the alarm sounds only in the…

Tehran blew up nuke test site, claims Netanyahu

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in Print, The Australian

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran destroyed a facility this year where it had conducted secret nuclear weapons experiments. In a televised address in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu showed satellite images of the alleged facility in central Iran, south of the city of Isfahan, from late June and late July that he said demonstrated that…

Britain slams Iran for oil tanker ‘breach’

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in Other Print, Print

Britain has summoned Iran’s ambassador to London to accuse Tehran of “breaching assurances” that a tanker intercepted off Gibraltar would not deliver oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Iran “repeatedly gave assurances to the government of Gibraltar” that the Adrian Darya I, formerly known as Grace I, would not deliver oil to any…

Postcards: Exhibition in Jerusalem Challenges Perceptions of Modestly Dressed Women

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in Online, Other Communities

In this holy city, hats, hijabs and clerical habits are a way of life and go all but unnnoticed on its busy streets. Even so, No’am Bar’am-Ben Yossef, an expert on religious garb, was surprised when, a decade ago, she began to see Jewish women dressed much like devout Muslims and Orthodox Christian nuns. Walking along…

Holland is recognising their role in the Holocaust, we should recognise ours

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in Online, Other Source

In Holland, a concerted effort is being made to compensate for the horrors and the displacement many suffered in the Holocaust. We could certainly take a lesson. As you may remember, I am in Holland at the moment. And sometimes that leads to interesting comparisons and thought experiments. The other day, for instance, we were…

Benjamin Netanyahu vows to begin annexing West Bank settlements

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