Saturday, July 26, 2025

L’Chaim to Life: Chip Le Grand

July 20, 2025 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Chip Le Grand, Chief Reporter for The Age newspaper, about the articles he has written since the recent arson attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue, the storming of the Israeli restaurant, Miznon, and the arson and graffiti attacks in Greensborough. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

July 17, 2025 by  

Nina Bassat – Antisemitism is not our problem, antisemitism is totally a societal problem  Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Jason Steinberg, President of the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies

July 3, 2025 by  

Jason unpacks his recent article in Brisbane’s Courier Mail, “The Bookends of Hatred are Closing in on Jews”. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: David Slade

June 26, 2025 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with David Slade, president of UIA-Keren Hayesod Victoria. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

June 22, 2025 by  

Yaakov Travitz and Gary Gould – Lions of Zion: against anti-Australian behaviour in the city of Melbourne Read more

L’Chaim to Life: David Southwick

June 6, 2025 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with David Southwick, MP for Caulfield in the Victorian Parliament. Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: George Foster

May 23, 2025 by  

 Celebrating survival and resilience Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Julie Nathan

May 22, 2025 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Julie Nathan, Research Director at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ). Read more

L’Chaim – to Life Anita Frayman, Esther Gyorki and Andrew Harris

May 8, 2025 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Anita Frayman, co-curator (with Esther Gyorki) of Buchenwald Ball – 80 Years Dancing in Freedom, and Andrew Harris, whose photographs are featured in the exhibition. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Sandra Burke

May 1, 2025 by  

The Greens are no longer an environmental party; they are extreme – just put the Greens last Read more

L’Chaim to Life: in Macnamara vote Burns [1] and Saulo [2] putting them both ahead of the Greens

April 24, 2025 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Tony Lupton, a passionate campaigner against what he refers to as the ‘extremist’ Greens Party, about preferencing candidates for the seat of Macnamara in the upcoming federal election. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: a podcast featuring Michael Danby

April 10, 2025 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with Michael Danby, former member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 until 2019 representing Melbourne Ports which is now Macnamara. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Zara Cooper

April 3, 2025 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Zara “Clammy Fraud” Cooper, CEO of Digital Defence, an organisation devoted to protecting all Australians through the creation of safer digital spaces, about the threat posed to most of us by the flood of misinformation, disinformation and abuse through social media platforms. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Tahli Blicblau

April 1, 2025 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with Tahli Blicblau, CEO of The Dor Foundation, a nascent not-for- profit non-partisan organisation with the mission to combat the antisemitism and hate now plaguing Australia and which has put the Jewish community under siege. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Josh Burns

March 9, 2025 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns, Labor’s Federal Member for Macnamara, about the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ recently tabled report of the Inquiry into Antisemitism in Australian Universities. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

February 27, 2025 by  

Peter Wertheim – We have the coalition openly and clearly committed to holding a judicial inquiry [on antisemitism] if they are elected to Government.

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L’Chaim to Life

February 9, 2025 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with John Anderson, a commentator who served as the leader of the National Party and the 11th deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1999 to 2005 under John Howard. Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim to Life

December 5, 2024 by  

Michael Gawenda – Books to educate parliamentarians Read more

Nov-14 9:20pm SBS Viceland: Greater Escapes with Morgan Freeman – The Sobibor Revolt

October 23, 2024 by  

During World War II, at Sobibor, Poland, a small group of Jews who were forced to keep the camp operational engineered a daring mass escape that saved many of their lives.

Simon Tedeschi does jazz

October 23, 2024 by  

One of Australia’s best-loved international pianists, Simon Tedeschi, returns to Sydney’s spectacular and historic Great Synagogue with a program of sublime jazz standards. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

October 10, 2024 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Peter Hartcher, award-winning political and international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, and non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, about his op-ed in the above papers, titled, ‘Too ugly to imagine: Australia can’t allow ancient hatreds, like antisemitism, to fester’. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Jacqueline Maley

September 22, 2024 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Jacqueline Maley, columnist and senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, about her recent Sunday Age opinion piece: “What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides”. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

September 19, 2024 by  

Maurice Klein speaks with Trevor Asserson, who put together a large team of lawyers and data experts to investigate the BBC bias reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict post October 7. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

August 29, 2024 by  

Israel At War Mythbuster – Suicide and Rape Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

August 20, 2024 by  

Trevor George Rapke – a Queen’s Counsel – colourful, strong, fair, and fearless Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

August 13, 2024 by  

Julia Rachel Rapke – feminist and civil rights activist Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

August 6, 2024 by  

Sir Philip David Phillips – an outstanding and respected lawyer gifted with an exceptional memory Read more

L’Chaim to Life

August 4, 2024 by  

Morry Frenkel speaks with Joe Gersh, former ABC Director. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

July 30, 2024 by  

Philip Masel OBE – businessman, writer, army officer Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

July 23, 2024 by  

Marion Phillips – Australian-born British Labour Party Politician and Member of Parliament Read more

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