AJN reader writes: It must’ve felt a bit like Yom Kippur… The attendees sure spent a long time in Shul…starting with the morning service and only leaving after the afternoon service. Read More »

How dumb are they? The Jewish News couldn’t resist illustrating its feature on chief rabbi Sacks other than by showing him chatting with a convicted (and currently jailed) rapist, ex-Israeli president Moshe Katzav and the “avi avos hatumah” the pope! Read More »

While we’d like to claim that the following article in the AJN this week was inspired by our ‘classic’ post 2 years ago, we can’t. After all, the AJN has been listing names by popularity for years. Read More »

We here at AJNWatch have watched with amazement and pride at the accolades, admiration and esteem expressed by virtually all the leaders in Australian politics, academia and the media about former Governor General, Sir Zelman Cowen. Read More »

  It really is a bit sloppy of our friends down at the Temple Beth in not yet having introduced a “Blessing the Animals” ceremony. Not doing so, they are forcing fine Jewish families to have their pets blessed in church. Not nice. Read More »

Interesting to see that Rabbi Raymond Apple’s column in this week’s AJN,  seems to be referring to our recent post about purveyors of porn… Read More »

If anyone thought that the Jewish News couldn’t sink lower than the smutty scribbling of their dreckerati recorder Adam Kamien, (read here , here , here and here ) they werein for a real shock when replacement- Bob Meiser – made his appearance last week. Read More »

Rebbe’s Chair In Every Home A brief report in “Yediot Jerusalem” reports about the new craze among Chassidim: Purchasing replicas of their Rebbes’ chairs ● A distritbutor in Jerusalem teamed up with wood carving professionals in Australia to bring you an exact replica of the Rebbe’s chair for $770 ● Full Story Chabad. Read More »

We know of Doktor Rabbiners and Rabbi Drs, but ”Rabbi chef” is definitely a new one. Seeing that there are so many people who have received some sort of Semicha but didn’t follow it up with a rabbinic post, we won’t be surprised to see “Rabbi plumber”, “Rabbi-taxi-driver” and “Rabbi-hairdresser”. Read More »

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Old-timer writes: I was a bit surprised to read that Central Shul-Chabad will be sharing its new building with the Betar youth group. I cannot recall other times that Chabad and a Zionist organisation have combined. Read More »

Guest post by Hayitochen : I was most disappointed to read in last week’s Jewish News about Elwood Shul and the Yesodei Hatorah college battling it out in the Supreme Court of Victoria, with the report that the Shul has already spent $430,000 on the Read More »

Can someone explain why have organisations and lay-leaders of our community – especially those who regularly criticise sections of the local media for anti-Israel bias and mis/disinformation - not made submissions about this to the current Read More »

The following advertisement appears in the Sydney edition of this week’s AJN. Advertising the Kol Nidre appeal a month after (or 11 month’s before) Yom Kippur seems very odd. Or maybe they aim to show the ignorance of people who didn’t get a decent Jewish education. Read More »

Seudah Shlishit (presumably that is what was meant by “Sevdah” ) after - a very early - Maariv? Funny mob those Elwoodians… Read More »

“…the music department wished ‘a very big and hearty mazal tov’ to all those involved…” AJNWatch suggests that at the conclusion of “Urinetown”, the bracha of “Asher Yatzar” may have been more appropriate… Read More »

“Melbourne Rabbi” writes: I am extremely disappointed to learn that Blake Street Shul, which labels itself as Orthodox, is co-sponsoring a book festival where the majority of featured speakers are married out. Read More »

An AJNWATCH reader writes: While I understand the need for the KCA and Kosher Aust to publicise easily available brands of acceptable tunas , for those who seek a higher standard in Kashrut, it may be advantageous if you published the attached Read More »

Another message from Sydney reader JW: Well, well, well. My previous post here has achieved a quick result. The KCA has now forwarded the entire list of approved tunas which was previously banned from further publication by Melbourne’s Kosher Australia. Actually it seems from the time and date that their reaction was almost immediate! Good work. Read More »

Received from Sydney reader JW: I am a longstanding subscriber of the Sydney Kashrut group KCA who really do an excellent job in advising and assisting Kosher consumers here. Today I received the following email from them: From: KCA Sydney@yahoogroups. Read More »