San Remo at 105: The conference that helped pave the way for modern Israel
May 6, 2025 by Yossi Lempkowicz - JNS
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 Ruth Lilian
Angell Arthur Phillips – a dedicated teacher and writer Read more
Rabbi Smuley Boteach says Australia is a sewer of antisemitism
May 5, 2025 by JNS
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 David Singer
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 JNS
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 Alex First
A Melbourne theatre reviewed by Alex First Read more
Feintooner
May 5, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Broken Broker Read more
South Africa’s Chief Rabbi urges ‘reset’ in Israel ties
May 4, 2025 by Steve Linde
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
May 4, 2025 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
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 Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale
May 4, 2025 by Alex First
A musical reviewed by Alex First Read more
On the other hand
May 4, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
Following Yom Hazikaron there is an instant switch to the celebrations of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. Read more
Schlissel Challahs
May 2, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Features Desk
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 Jeremy Rosen
From Australia’s Jewish past
April 29, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
May Vivian Saqui – a forgotten actor Read more
Feintooner
April 28, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon:The Dog and Phony show Read more
Jewish identity hijacked in UK for political vanity
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Jeremy Rosen
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Anne Sarzin
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 Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
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 Greg Bouwer
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 Jeremy Rosen
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 Features Desk
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 Rabbi Ralph Genende
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 Bruce S. Ticker
Netanyahu besieged: Israel’s endless revolt
April 23, 2025 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
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