Froma Australia’s Jewish past

May 7, 2024 by  

Moritz Gotthelf – Prominent Commercial Businessman and Community Stalwar Read more

From the Holocaust to Oct. 7, history is repeating itself

May 6, 2024 by  

As Israel began commemorating on Sunday the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, Josef Avi Yair Engel, whose father survived the Nazi genocide and whose grandson recently spent 54 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, told JNS that history is repeating itself. Read more

Dry Bones: Remembrance

A depressing observation. Read more

Trump writes off UN two-state solution

May 6, 2024 by  

Former President Donald Trump has rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s mantra to create a Palestinian Arab state between Jordan and Israel during Trump’s wide-ranging interview in Time on 30 April. Read more

Feintooner

May 6, 2024 by  

This week’s cartoon by Feintooner:  NO-GO-tiations

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Dry Bones: Holocaust Remembrance Day

The first since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

Julian Leeser addresses Sydney’s Central

Federal Liberal MP Julian Leeser addressed the congregation during Sydney’s Central Synagogue Friday night service. Read more

On the other hand

May 5, 2024 by  

The countdown has started. Read more

The ivory tower jihad

The shocking scenes on campus over the past few days are far more significant than mere student demonstrations getting out of hand. Read more

The Grinning Man

May 3, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

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Holocaust Day

May 3, 2024 by  

Next Monday, we will observe our Yom HaShoah. We may hear the cliché “ Never again” and realize it means nothing to the majority of people in the so-called civilized world. Read more

Interviewer turns interviewee

Shelly Freeman interviews Henry Greener on the milestone 800th episode of his iconic Jewish TV Show. Read more

Ignominy

May 3, 2024 by  

Defined as a public shame and disgrace, this word more than adequately sums up the current turmoil convulsing universities. Read more

Dry Bones: Outside the box

Just thinking… Read more

IDF plans for Rafah op draw on extensive Israeli experience

May 2, 2024 by  

As the War Cabinet waits for a reply from Hamas to the latest far-reaching, unprecedented Israeli proposal for a hostage release deal, the IDF has drawn up operational plans for large-scale urban warfare in Hamas’s last remaining bastion in Rafah, southern Gaza. Read more

Don’t compromise with pro-Hamas students; expel or suspend them

Negotiating with mobs is always a fool’s errand. Read more

Director Guy Nattiv talks about Golda

May 2, 2024 by  

The biographical drama Golda is a new film released today about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Read more

Shabbat Acharei Mot: Forbidden Sex

May 2, 2024 by  


The Torah this week gives a list of forbidden sexual relations.

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The confused world and murderous rhetoric of Khyami James

May 2, 2024 by  

It looks like I need to take out a restraining order against Khymani James, who, at the age of 20, went down in modern history this weekend, clamouring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim to Life

May 2, 2024 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with Rev Mark Leach, co-founder of ‘Never Again Is Now’, a grassroots Christian movement educating and mobilising Christians to actively stand against the oldest of the world’s hatreds: Jew-hatred-antisemitism. Read more

The Fall Guy

May 1, 2024 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

You’re Being Dramatic

May 1, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Golda

May 1, 2024 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Potted Potter, The Unauthorized Harry Experience, A Parody by Dan and Jeff

May 1, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past:  Alan Philip Frankel – a World War I Veteran’s Journey

April 30, 2024 by  

The last story before Pesach was written about Philip Louis Frankel. Read more

Now is the time for choosing

April 28, 2024 by  

On Wednesday, hikers around the southern Israeli city of Arad discovered the remains of an Iranian ballistic missile from the April 13 overnight assault. Read more

Tony Abbott tells JNS: Talk of Palestinian state does not represent country

April 28, 2024 by  

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was not representing most of her country’s citizens when she said that recognizing a Palestinian state would not constitute a reward for Israel’s enemies, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott told JNS. Read more

On the other hand

April 28, 2024 by  

What time did you finish? Read more

RBG: Of Many, One

April 28, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

UN lobbies to recognize fictitious State of Palestine

April 28, 2024 by  

The United Nations has become actively involved in lobbying its member states to recognize a fictitious State of Palestine that does not meet the legal requirements for statehood laid down in the 1933 Montevideo Convention. Read more

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