Froma Australia’s Jewish past
May 7, 2024 by J-Wire
Moritz Gotthelf – Prominent Commercial Businessman and Community Stalwar Read more
From the Holocaust to Oct. 7, history is repeating itself
May 6, 2024 by Amelie Botbol
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
May 6, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
A depressing observation. Read more
Trump writes off UN two-state solution
May 6, 2024 by David Singer
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 Feintooner
Dry Bones: Holocaust Remembrance Day
May 5, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
The first since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more
Julian Leeser addresses Sydney’s Central
May 5, 2024 by J-Wire News Service
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 Michael Kuttner
The countdown has started. Read more
The ivory tower jihad
May 3, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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 Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First
Holocaust Day
May 3, 2024 by J-Wire
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
May 3, 2024 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Shelly Freeman interviews Henry Greener on the milestone 800th episode of his iconic Jewish TV Show. Read more
Ignominy
May 3, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
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
May 2, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
Just thinking… Read more
IDF plans for Rafah op draw on extensive Israeli experience
May 2, 2024 by Yaakov Lappin
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
May 2, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Negotiating with mobs is always a fool’s errand. Read more
Director Guy Nattiv talks about Golda
May 2, 2024 by Alex First
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 Jeremy Rosen
The Torah this week gives a list of forbidden sexual relations.
The confused world and murderous rhetoric of Khyami James
May 2, 2024 by Bruce S. Ticker
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 Features Desk
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 Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
You’re Being Dramatic
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Golda
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Potted Potter, The Unauthorized Harry Experience, A Parody by Dan and Jeff
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
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 Features Desk
The last story before Pesach was written about Philip Louis Frankel. Read more
Now is the time for choosing
April 28, 2024 by Caroline Glick - JNS
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 Amelie Botbol - JNS
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 Michael Kuttner
What time did you finish? Read more
RBG: Of Many, One
April 28, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
UN lobbies to recognize fictitious State of Palestine
April 28, 2024 by David Singer
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