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Four new Jewish novels recommended by Israel’s National Library

1 week ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

Three of the four novels shortlisted for the National Library of Israel's Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are debut novels – and the fourth is only the author's second novel. While last year's winner was the controversial non-fiction book, Palestine 1936 by Oren Kessler, this year the judges have returned to the prize's traditional fare, choosing novels that explore various facets of contemporary, historical and even possible future Jewish lives. The prize will be announced later this month.
Online antisemitism mars election campaign

1 week ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

An Israeli online monitoring organisation has identified 80 anti-Jewish posts related to Australia's election campaign. The posts peddled antisemitic stereotypes such as claiming Jews control Australia and exert undue influence on government. Some framed immigration policy as a tool of Jewish control, accusing both major political parties of being complicit in advancing this agenda.
Pamphleteers weaponise Jewish experience

2 weeks ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

Pamphlets distributed in two Melbourne electorates with a high proportion of Jewish voters have deeply upset Australian Jews this week. It follows other cases of weaponising Jewish issues this election campaign, with recent attacks on Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Wentworth independent Allegra Spender. A pamphlet distributed in the heavily Jewish area of Caulfield by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network attacks the Liberal party for "Giving the Jews everything they want".
Facing the influencer intifada - The Jewish Independent

2 weeks ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

This week, over 1.7 million people watched Ethan Klein and Hasan Piker debate Israel and Palestine on YouTube. Both hugely popular internet personalities, the former friends once hosted a political podcast together, The Leftovers, on Klein’s successful YouTube channel, the H3 Podcast. In October 2023, the pair debated the Hamas massacre, and the wider Israel/Palestine conflict, during a volatile episode titled ‘Israel vs Gaza.’ The next month, the podcast went on hiatus, never to return.
Focus Macnamara: Labor hears the pain

1 month ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

From one angle, Josh Burns looks like the ideal candidate for the substantial proportion of Melbourne’s Jewish community who live in Macnamara, the electorate including Caulfield, St Kilda, Ripponlea and Balaclava. Burns, 38, grew up in Caulfield and lives in St Kilda, went to Mount Scopus College, and played basketball for Maccabi, where he was a rare beast as a 1.91 metre (6ft 3) Jewish boy. Plus he has the advantage of incumbency and being a Labor MP in a safe Labor seat.
Why is this night different? Seder, Iraqi-style

1 month ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission. Enter site I recently told a friend that I wasn’t looking forward to Pesach, a festival I consider to be a culinary desert. “But you can eat rice!” she replied.
‘No Other Land’: singing from the same song sheet

1 month ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher

There's a bridge in northern Israel, spanning the main artery of Road 6, that bears a banner with three simple words: "No Other Land." As I drove past it last week, returning to Jerusalem after a holiday in Haifa, I found myself pondering: was this message placed by a Jew or an Arab? If placed by a Jew, it could be a reference to the historic and biblical connection of our people to the Land of Israel and the right to a Jewish state.
Labor promises $18 million for Jewish Arts Quarter

1 month ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

As campaigning for the May 3 election begins, Labor is fighting to retain the Melbourne electorate of Macnamara with a pitch for the Jewish vote. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles joined local MP Josh Burns today to announce an $18 million investment to support the creation of the Jewish Arts Quarter (JAQ) in Elsternwick.
Fears Jewish Liberal voters could deliver electorate to Greens

1 month ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

The electorate that represents most of Melbourne’s Jewish community has been a Labor seat for more than 100 years, but Jewish community disappointment with the Albanese government could change that in the upcoming federal election. Macnamara, formerly known as Melbourne Ports, represents a swathe of Melbourne’s southeast, including the “shtetl suburbs” of Caulfield, St Kilda East and Ripponlea, and the gentrified progressive-voting inner suburbs of Port Melbourne and St Kilda.
Jewish groups call for Australian sanction against Israel

1 month ago | thejewishindependent.com.au | Deborah Stone

The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission. Enter site Israel Hamas WarNewsAustraliaJewish groups concerned about the resumption of hostilities in Gaza have called for the Australian government to impose sanctions on the state of Israel.