Graf oration and the concentric circles of siege

Yossi Klein Halevi , author, commentator , political philosopher and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem,  was guest speaker at the annual Ervin Graf Memorial Oration for The Shalom Institute this week.  An audience of 450 gathered to listen to his view of current events in Israel. He likened the situation Israelis are experiencing as “concentric circles of siege”. Read more

The Selfish Giant…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Grim and gritty does work well in the North of England. Read more

New Principal for Kadimah

Auckland’s Kadimah School has appointed Kerry Jenner  as its new Principal. Read more

Support for Israel in Sydney

Over 1500 people gathered at Central Synagogue on Sunday to show solidarity with Israel. Read more

Still Life…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Funerals are meant for the living. Still Life opens intriguingly with the same solitary figure at a series of burial services. Read more

Venus in Fur…a film review by Roz Tarszisz

Venus in Fur – a play within a play. Based on David Ives’ Tony Award winning play “Venus in Fur”, this two hander directed by Roman Polanksi opens innocuously enough in a small rundown theatre in Paris.

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Giving life

25 volunteers, aged 18-45, gave blood at The Big Kitchen in Bondi for tissue typing in order to sign up for The Gift of Life world-wide registry of potential stem cells/bone marrow donors. Read more

Rock the Casbah…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Gritty and uncompromising, Rock the Casbah is an Israeli-French production set in 1989 in Gaza during the First Intifada. Read more

Edge of Tomorrow…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Europe has been overrun by hostile aliens and millions have been killed.   This science fiction outing from Director Doug Liman requires a hero to save the world. Read more

The Face of Love…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

There are a few questions that occurred to me during the screening of this film. Is it going to be one for the gal-pals or would it work for a grownup date night?  Could two people both still be so passionately in love after 30 years of marriage?   Is not Annette Bening even more beautiful now that she is a mature woman? Read more

Transcendence…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov has a lot to answer for. More than half a century ago his super-bright robots posed the question of where to draw the line between man and machine. Transcendence is Hollywood’s latest answer. Read more

Like Father, Like Son…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Are the ties of blood stronger than that of parental love?  A heartbreaking dilemma explores the bonds that define a family in modern Japan. Read more

Never Forget to Lie – a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

Some children survived the Holocaust only by denying their faith. “Never forget to lie,” is what they were told to do to survive. Read more

Besa: The Promise…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

A moral code that must be honoured in word and deed is at the heart of Besa:The Promise, a story of faith, decency and humanity that has waited decades to be told. Read more

When Day Breaks…a movie review by Roz Tarszisz

When an unfinished piece of music – When Day Breaks – comes into his hands, it changes the life and perceptions of an elderly, retired music teacher living in modern Belgrade. Read more

Life? Or Theatre?…a film review by Roz Tarszisz

Truth or Fiction?  A documentary is a brief introduction to a subject about which we may know very little. The viewer is taken into another world by expanding our knowledge of a small slice of it. Should we expect it to accurately reflect the truth? Read more

Gloria – a movie review by Roz Tarsziz 3/5

It is both heartening and scary to realise that age is no barrier to behaving badly.

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