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 […]