Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA

March 28, 2024 by  

Cirque du Soleil reviewed by Alex First Read more

Chicago

March 27, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7

March 26, 2024 by  

In a no-holds-barred interview, former U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom that he supports Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and that he would have responded to the Oct. 7 attack in a very similar way. Read more

West Side Story – reviewed by Shirley Politzer

March 26, 2024 by  

What makes a good night at the theatre?- a story that resonates, vibrancy, colour, emotion, great music, talented musicians and choreography, purposeful lighting, clear sound, the list goes on. Read more

Zombie! The Musical

March 25, 2024 by  

A Sydney theatre review by Alex First Read more

Feintooner

March 25, 2024 by  

This week’s cartoon: Montreal Purim ShpieLibel 2024 Read more

Israel tags Guterres and UN as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel

March 25, 2024 by  

Israel’s patience with the United Nations (UN) has finally, and justifiably, exploded with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling out the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN and its agencies as being both antisemitic and anti-Israel.  Read more

The Great Divide

March 25, 2024 by  

A Sydney theatre review by Alex First

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The Russian dictator’s double terrorism standards

March 25, 2024 by  

Following Friday’s massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the outskirts of Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a video address to his nation. The slaying of “dozens of peaceful, innocent people … including children, teenagers and women,” he said, was a “bloody, barbaric, terrorist act.” Read more

Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim

Perhaps the best news I’ve heard out of Israel in recent months concerned the renaming of a holiday pastry. Read more

War is hell. Everywhere.

March 24, 2024 by  

“War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” Read more

Blinken’s Rafah blunder

March 24, 2024 by  

In a press conference on Thursday in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated his opposition to an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, saying that such a move would be a “mistake.” Read more

Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer believes the Palestinian people “want what any other people want: peace, security and prosperity.” Read more

On the other hand

March 24, 2024 by  

Who would have believed this? The UN world happiness report for 2024 has just been issued and Israel appears as the fifth happiest. Read more

The American betrayal of Israel

As some of us have long feared, and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defence against a malevolent foe. Read more

Dry Bones

How dare we … Read more

Self Defence

March 22, 2024 by  

Elliot Horowitz’s overview of Purim over the ages, Reckless Rites and the Legacy of Jewish Violence, has a subtext. It is a quote from the English poet W.H. Auden: “ Those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return.” Read more

From Shushan to Tehran

March 22, 2024 by  

Haman of Shushan and Khomeini and Raisi of Tehran are comrades in arms bound together with the same evil agenda. Read more

Wicked Little Letters

March 22, 2024 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Vayikra & Zachor: Amalek

March 22, 2024 by  

The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor the Shabbat to Remember. Read more

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

March 19, 2024 by  

A Melbourne ballet review by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s past: Isaac Nachman Steinberg

March 19, 2024 by  

Isaac Nachman Steinberg –  never-tiring political thinker, activist, and realist Read more

Feintooner

March 18, 2024 by  

This week’s cartoon: The Court Jewster Read more

Betrayal, lies, politics and grief

March 17, 2024 by  

Seven years have passed since criminal charges were brought in Washington, D.C., against the woman who murdered my sunny, lovely, empathetic 15-year-old daughter Malki. The anniversary of the charges being made public was on March 14…writes Arnold Roth. Read more

On the other hand

March 17, 2024 by  

For the second time in two months, we have had an “only in Israel” experience while travelling on the train. Read more

Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius at The Lume, inside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

March 17, 2024 by  

Has there ever been a creative intellect greater than Leonardo da Vinci? I dare say that question could spark animated discussion. Read more

Biden must get Security Council to rescind Resolution 2334

March 17, 2024 by  

President Biden can stem the outbreak of Jew-hatred worldwide by convincing the Security Council to rescind Resolution 2334 adopted on 23 December 2016 – only after the Obama-Biden administration failed to veto its passage. Read more

Swansong

March 17, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Love Lies Bleeding

March 17, 2024 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

The West’s abandonment of the Jews

March 15, 2024 by  

With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Read more

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