Shabbat Tazria: Naaman

The Torah this week goes into detail about what is called Leprosy, but it can be understood to mean any infectious skin disease. Read more

Sunset Vigil, marking six months since October 7th

Alon Cassuto, CEO of the Zionist Federation of Australia, speaks at the Sunset Vigil, marking six months since October 7th

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Podcast: L’Chaim to Life

Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Ron Elisha, renowned and prolific playwright about “Rootless Cosmopolitans”, the most recent of his plays to be produced in Australia. Read more

Corpus Delicti!

A part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and reviewed by Alex First. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch

Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch – businessman, property investor, and well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish Community Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine trashes UN & Arab failed policies

The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS): The merger of Jordan, Gaza, and part of the West Bank into one territorial entity – trashes many failed United Nations and Arab policies identified by HKOPS author – Ali Shihabi – an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Read more

After six months of war, how have Arab perceptions of Israel changed?

Six months into war with Hamas, Israel is both on the brink of either a multi-front war or establishing diplomatic relations with more Arab countries. Read more

A chat with Chris Mitchell – producer of The Marvellous Elephant Man: The Musical

The original Australian musical production of The Marvellous Elephant Man: The Musical is up for three Green Room Awards, Melbourne’s premier, peer-presented performing arts industry awards to be announced tomorrow. Read more

On the other hand

This week’s “only in Israel” experience has a Pesach (Passover) flavour. Read more

The global onslaught against Israel

As Israel battles for survival against Iran and its proxies, it is being subjected to a virtual auto-da-fé by its supposed allies. Read more

Lilith

There are many stories about evil spirits who are supposed to surround us and interfere in our lives. Read more

April Fools

It used to be that one day was sufficient for hoaxes and what passed as practical jokes. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Rabbi James Kennard

Rabbi James Kennard recently retired as Principal of Mt Scopus College and finally has time to talk about his 16 years leading Melbourne’s outstanding Jewish day school. Read more

L’Chaim to Life – Jeremy Ungar

Maurice Klein speaks with Jeremy Ungar, the senior trade officer of the Israel Trade and Economic Commission, Embassy of Israel in Australia. Read more

Gaza aid-worker tragedy risks overshadowing IDF efforts to protect humanitarian routes

Monday night’s unintentional Israeli drone strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy travelling along the Gaza coast, in which seven aid workers were killed, risks overshadowing a series of recent steps by the Israeli military to facilitate the flow of aid into the Strip. Read more

Ahead of national elections, South African Jews feel hope, trepidation

Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, religious leader and CEO of the African Jewish Congress, was recently walking in Johannesburg when, as a car passed by, the passengers screamed antisemitic insults at him. Read more

Is Trump really abandoning Israel?

Has Donald Trump turned on Israel? That’s the question some people have been asking in the wake of an interview he gave to Israel Hayom. Read more

Shabbat Shmini: You are what you eat

After dealing with the sacrificial system and with the roles that priests play within it, the Torah turns to the laws of kashrut. Read more

Jewish origins of Mozart’s librettist a ‘poorly kept secret’

One of the most important librettists, or authors of operatic texts, in music history, was born Jewish, but his origins weren’t known widely until the Nazis banned works of Jewish artists during the Holocaust. Read more

Dry Bones: Urban warfare

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The Biden administration’s war against the government of Israel

The war rages in the Gaza Strip, northern Israel, Lebanon, Eilat and on the streets of Israel’s cities as Iran’s Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni proxies maintain and escalate their operations against the Jewish state. Read more

Photographers who joined the Oct. 7 pogrom deserve censure, not awards

What is the obligation of a reporter or news photographer covering an act of terrorism or warfare? Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Philip Louis Frankel

Businessman, mason, chazan, sportsman, and loyal Jew Read more

HKOPS: The other two-state solution Biden could endorse

President Biden has for the first time suggested his readiness to abandon the failed two-state solution embodied in Security Council Resolution 2334 (Resolution 2334 two-state solution) – endorsing instead a different two-state solution that could possibly be the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS two-state solution). Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: US presents Israel with alternatives to Rafah battle Read more

Dry Bones

Unuseful idiots Pre-Islamic Europe Read more

Israel’s global isolation is caused by antisemitism, not bad policies

Israel’s critics and outright foes are right about one thing: Nearly six months after the Oct. 7 massacres, its isolation is growing. Read more

On the other hand

Another “only in Israel” event demonstrates the unique experience of living here. Read more

Henry Greener talks with ECAJ’s Lynzi Bennun

Lynzi Bennun is the Digital Advocacy Director at ECAJ, the Sydney-based Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the roof body of the Australian Jewish community. Read more

Israel’s Orwellian nightmare

For the Jewish world, these are nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Read more

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