Macron’s Middle East ‘grandstanding’ will backfire

This week, Israel revoked the entry visas of 27 French lawmakers and local officials. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Eva Bacon – dress designer, political activist, and feminist Read more

Mourning Pope Francis

Pope Francis was, without question, the most important and most influential religious and theological figure of the 21^st century, not just for Roman Catholics, not just for Christians, but for Jews as well. Read more

St Matthew Passion – Mendelssohn’s 1841 version

A music review by Shirley Politzer Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The 3.67% delusion Read more

Huckabee arrives in Israel to represent Trump’s views – not his

Mike Huckabee – America’s first-ever evangelical Christian Ambassador to Israel – has – on his first day in office – visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem – the most sacred place in Judaism – a remnant of the Second Temple – destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Read more

The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

The attack on the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro carries a number of lessons, none sharper and more urgent than the wake-up call for those who are least likely to want to acknowledge it. Read more

Chaim Shine’s Pesach

I don’t usually send out the ideas of others. But this is an exception. Read more

A Pesach journey into the heart of Sephardic-Portuguese heritage in the Caribbean

My recent Pesach Seder, hosted by Rabbi Dr. Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota’s family in Santiago—the Dominican Republic’s vibrant second-largest city—was an experience of profound cultural resonance and renewal. Read more

Dry Bones was resurrected as Israel’s premier cartoonist at age 81

Much has been written about the life of Yaakov Kirschen – known as “Dry Bones” to his large number of adoring fans – but little has been written about his return to drawing cartoons in his eighties until his death on 14 April at the age of 87. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Pinchas Goldhar – A Pioneer Australian Yiddish Writer Read more

The Art of Exile

New worlds for Young Adults to conquer. Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Azerbaijan: Augmenting the Abraham Accords

The Abraham Accords were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment of Trump’s first administration; he has made it clear that his new administration will seek to expand them- Forbes, March 8, 2025. Read more

Dry Bones: Togetherness

The chain of history… Read more

Bitter or better?

On Seder night, we eat bitter herbs to recall the bitter times that our Hebrew ancestors experienced during their years of enslavement and persecution in Egypt. Read more

Pesach 2025 – Are We Crazy?

I can’t think of a Biblical festival that is so popular and yet at the same time so obsessively neurotic and over the top as Pesach (AKA Passover). Read more

Shabbat Tsav & Gadol

Sweet Smell Read more

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

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

A Passover thought or two

There is no doubt that President Trump is a friend of Israel. Read more

Trump stumbles over student deportation process

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What creates a Palestinian terrorist and his foreign supporters?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump have a lot to discuss. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Hannah (Hansey) Eizenberg – Concert Pianist, Book Importer and Publisher Read more

Israel stakes claim while Trump takes aim

Israel has not been slow in coming forward to make two highly significant announcements affecting the future allocation of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) – as President Trump fails to meet his own self-imposed deadline of 4 March for providing his solution. Read more

The arrest of ‘Jerusalem Post’ editor sheds light on legal system’s failures

To be sure, I was shocked when The Jerusalem Post’s editor-in-chief, Zvika Klein, went to Qatar. I could not believe the platitudes that he gave to the Qataris, saying they are a force for moderation and a peacemaker with an outstretched arm to Israel. Read more

Gaza: a tragedy of terror, choices, and the path not taken

In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip, dismantling every settlement and evacuating its military forces. Read more

On the other hand

On Friday Jerusalem hosted the 14^th International Marathon, with competitors participating from overseas as well as from Israel. Read more

Small Things Like These

A movie review by Alex First

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The Gazan revolt

It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas being mounted by thousands of Gazans have gone almost totally unremarked by the media and supposedly pro-Palestinian supporters in Britain and America. Read more

Fanatics

I have the pleasure of lecturing weekly on the Bible. We are now in the first Book of Shmuel (Samuel), which marks an important watershed in the evolution of Israelite political life. Read more

Cacophonous chorus

The theme songs are similar when emanating from political pontificators, international bodies, media mavens or off-key self-loathers. Read more

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