2014

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/anti-semitism-is-not-a-soccer-ball/In a recent article for the Times of Israel, Ian Ben Zion tells us that an Israeli Knesset member is claiming that the Nike ad below, for the 2014 World Cup, is anti-Semitic. He writes: […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/so-just-what-is-a-palestinian-anyways/The Philistines, of course, were a seafaring people of the Aegean islands. They were one of the rivals for regional dominance competing with the ancient Israelites along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea over […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/uc-irvine-cancels-nonie-darwish-speech/Front Page Magazine reports the following: On the heels of Brandeis University’s controversial decision to rescind an honorary degree to women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, organizers of a week-long pro-Israel event called iFest, which is currently […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/jews-down-under-moving-today/Please update your bookmarks. The site should be moved to the new site by midday today Thank you.   Thank you for your support.http://jewsdownunder.com/

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/news-views-from-arlene-in-israel-continuing-thoughts/Submitted and written by Arlene Kushner.   I would like to pick up on the two topics I wrote about before Shabbat: accusations of Israel as “apartheid” and the debate about Israel as a Jewish […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/oztorah-ask-the-rabbi-yom-haatzmaut/Submitted and written by Rabbi Doctor Raymond Apple .   PRACTICAL ZIONISM This week we celebrate Yom HaAtzma’ut, Israel’s Independence Day. As always, the occasion will bring out its philosophers, analysing the meaning of Israel […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/chag-sameach-happy-66th-birthday-israel/   To My Country — Rachel. I have not sung you, my country, not brought glory to your name with the great deeds of a hero or the spoils a battle yields. But on […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/a-melbourne-terrorist-themed-play-praised-by-fairfax-media/A play, Wael Zuaiter: Unknown, currently showing in Melbourne, which romanticises a terrorist, was reviewed in the Fairfax media.   … this innovative and brilliantly constructed piece of documentary theatre achieves a haunting power through […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/jews-down-under-is-migrating-to-a-web-site/Jews Down Under  is migrating to a web site in the next day or two. Tuesday by the look of things. http://jewsdownunder.com/ This has been an amazing journey in the past 7/8 months and I […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/news-views-from-arlene-in-israel-bye-bye-negotiations/Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. Shabbat starts late at this season, which allows me the time to do a post – but even so, Shabbat is Shabbat and this will be brief. The nine-month […]