Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA
March 28, 2024 by Alex First
Cirque du Soleil reviewed by Alex First Read more
Chicago
March 27, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7
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 Shirley Politzer
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 Alex First
A Sydney theatre review by Alex First Read more
Feintooner
March 25, 2024 by Feintooner
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 David Singer
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 Alex First
A Sydney theatre review by Alex First
The Russian dictator’s double terrorism standards
March 25, 2024 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
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
March 24, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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 Ben Cohen - JNS.org
“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 Ruthie Blum - JNS
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
March 24, 2024 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
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 Michael Kuttner
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
March 22, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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
March 22, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
How dare we … Read more
Self Defence
March 22, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Vayikra & Zachor: Amalek
March 22, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor the Shabbat to Remember. Read more
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
March 19, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne ballet review by Alex First Read more
From Australia’s past: Isaac Nachman Steinberg
March 19, 2024 by Features Desk
Isaac Nachman Steinberg – never-tiring political thinker, activist, and realist Read more
Feintooner
March 18, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: The Court Jewster Read more
Betrayal, lies, politics and grief
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Alex First
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 David Singer
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 Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Love Lies Bleeding
March 17, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
The West’s abandonment of the Jews
March 15, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Read more