Everyone’s favourite anti-Semitic ABC journalist, Anne I-thought-you-were-supposed-to-be-in-South-East-Asia Barker, has come up with another special report, just in time for the holidays. It seems Bethlehem is having record breaking numbers of tourists, for Christmas, this year, due to the “lull in violence”. This is great news for both the Israelis and the Palestinians, right? I mean, [...]

My neighbour is away at the moment and I am collecting their mail.  Today there was a lot of junk mail.  However I received one brochure that my neighbour didn’t.  Possibly this was because my door is marked with a mezuzah, and my neighbour’s, not being Jewish, is not. The brochure is marked “The answer to anti-semitism” [...]

From JTA, December 2, 2010: SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – Australian Jewish lawmaker Michael Danby called on New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to dismiss his agriculture minister over a ban on kosher slaughter. Danby, a Parliament member from the governing Labor Party, in a statement issued Thursday blasted the minister, David Carter, who is embroiled [...]

Finally a young man from Sydney has found a way to show up the ineffectiveness of the current crop of kashrut organisations information distribution systems.  Most kashrut agencies rely on the publication of information in a kashrut directory. This might have worked in the past but is clearly out of touch with the modern kosher [...]