Tuesday, May 06, 2025

San Remo at 105: The conference that helped pave the way for modern Israel

From April 19 to 26, 1920, world powers gathered in San Remo on Italy’s Riviera to determine the fate of former Ottoman territories following World War I. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

May 6, 2025 by  

Angell Arthur Phillips – a dedicated teacher and writer Read more

Rabbi Smuley Boteach says Australia is a sewer of antisemitism

May 5, 2025 by  

This past week, I was attacked three times. Not for anything I said, or anything I did—but simply for being Jewish…Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tells the Jewish world. Read more

HKOPS still the world’s best kept secret

May 5, 2025 by  

I was privileged to attend the inaugural Jewish News Syndicate International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on 27/28 April (JNS Conference) – but shocked to find that none of the well- credentialled international and Israeli speakers I approached had ever heard of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS). Read more

Yuval Raphael’s emotional journey from Supernova to Eurovision

May 5, 2025 by  

One morning, when Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Supernova music festival massacre, was a 6-year-old girl, her father gathered her and her younger brother to announce they were relocating to Switzerland. Read more

The Beep Test

May 5, 2025 by  

A Melbourne theatre reviewed by Alex First Read more

Feintooner

May 5, 2025 by  

This week’s cartoon:  Broken Broker Read more

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi urges ‘reset’ in Israel ties

May 4, 2025 by  

In an address at the Israeli Embassy’s Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Pretoria on April 29, South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein called for “a reset of the relationship” between Israel and South Africa. Read more

Kneecap get kneecapped

The most successful musicians are those who understand that their art is about spectacle as well as sound. When it comes to popular music, the more controversy there is, the greater the spectacle becomes. Read more

Thunderbolts*

May 4, 2025 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale

May 4, 2025 by  

A musical reviewed by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

May 4, 2025 by  

Following Yom Hazikaron there is an instant switch to the celebrations of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. Read more

Schlissel Challahs

May 2, 2025 by  

Happy Chag Ha’Atsmaut even if for some it is already over. There was much to celebrate. Read more

A long journey home

May 2, 2025 by  

It has taken more than two thousand years for Jews exiled by the Romans to finally return to their promised homeland and reclaim sovereignty. 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

Shabbat Tazria & Metzorah

May 1, 2025 by  

Health

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From Australia’s Jewish past

April 29, 2025 by  

May Vivian Saqui – a forgotten actor Read more

Feintooner

April 28, 2025 by  

This week’s cartoon:The Dog and Phony show Read more

Jewish identity hijacked in UK for political vanity

April 27, 2025 by  

There is no shortage of people willing to sign their names to morally unserious causes…writes Steve Winston. Read more

On the other hand

April 27, 2025 by  

Preparing for Pesach for your family and guests may be challenging, but it is nothing compared to what the IDF faces. Read more

Who’s side?

April 25, 2025 by  

There’s no question that the challenges we Jews are facing at this moment, internally and externally, are enormous and scary. Read more

Impervious and Incurable

April 25, 2025 by  

Yom Hashoah this year is being commemorated in the shadow of the worst outbreak of Jew hatred seen since the Nazi era. Read more

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

April 24, 2025 by  

Echoes of history’s discords – book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

From Rome to Jerusalem: the unfinished dialogue between Jews and the Vatican

April 24, 2025 by  

When Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, died in 1958, the debate over his silence during the Holocaust had already spanned continents and consciences. Read more

Yom HaShoah and the meaning of “never again”, in a world that forgets

April 24, 2025 by  

As Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — approaches, Jewish communities around the world prepare to honour the memory of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, along with millions of others targeted for who they were. Read more

Shabbat Shmini

April 24, 2025 by  

 Two Brothers Go Wrong 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

Anzac Day- Memory and Destiny

April 24, 2025 by  

What a remarkable day, this Anzac Day is for us as Australians and for our fellow New Zealanders. Read more

Raving over fire that threatened Jewish governor?

April 24, 2025 by  

The oversized Palestinian flag was a tempting target.

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Netanyahu besieged: Israel’s endless revolt

They call it a revolution—the ceaseless internal upheaval, the persistent subterranean tremor that has characterised Israel’s history in these long months, as much as the war fought across seven fronts. There is, however, an eighth front: the war waged against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

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