The gold-plated peacenik in the White House

When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last year, many in Israel thought they’d dodged a bullet. Read more

Echoes of a disastrous past

Students of history will recognise current developments as yet another disastrous rerun of past failed political objectives. Read more

Woke Aida

The opera Aida was composed by Giuseppe Verdi and first performed in 1871. Read more

The useful idiots of Sydney University: a cautionary tale of ignorance and antisemitism

If you’ve ever wondered what “useful idiots” look like in 2025, the University of Sydney’s Student Representative Council (SRC) Special General Meeting (SGM) on 14 May provided a textbook case. Read more

Les Misérables

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Emor

An Eye For An Eye Read more

The pope’s ‘divisions’ and the war against the Jews

In an era when religion seems to be in steep decline throughout Europe and North America, it might strike some people as curious that the election of a new pope would be treated as such an earth-shaking event. Read more

Family Romance

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Arthur Schüller – founder of the Neuroradiology Discipline Read more

No, Trump isn’t about to recognize a Palestinian state

Non-Shabbat-observant Israelis awoke on Saturday to fake news that, in Winston Churchill’s witty words, “got halfway around the world before the truth had a chance to put its pants on.” Read more

Hadestown

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Time fake news was abandoned

Responsible media outlets need to stop quoting undisclosed sources if they wish to retain their credibility. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  The Not So Big Tent Read more

When did the current wave of antisemitism begin?

In nearly 30 years of writing and speaking about global antisemitism, I’ve been asked more than once if it’s possible to pinpoint when this present wave of hatred first reared its head. Read more

The willing executioners of today’s anti-Israel hatred

The danger is no longer lurking; it’s here, clear and undeniable. What happened recently in Italy is just another alarming signal. Read more

On the other hand

Syrian Druze victims of ethnic violence have been evacuated for treatment to Israeli hospitals. Read more

The Age ‘Book of the Year: Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip. Read more

A Just War

A two-volume work has just been published. Milhemet Mitzvah: Editors Aviad Hacohen, Yitzchak Avi Roness and Menachem Butler. Read more

Shabbat Acharei Mot and Kedoshim

Love Your Neighbour Read more

Trump and Israel

As the United States passes the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, Israel remains hopeful, but with increasing concerns about the Trump administration’s priorities and full understanding of the situation. Read more

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

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

Why is New Zealand still funding antisemitic education in the Palestinian territories?

A recent report from the education watchdog IMPACT-se has reignited urgent concerns over the content of Palestinian school curricula. Read more

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

Angell Arthur Phillips – a dedicated teacher and writer Read more

Rabbi Smuley Boteach says Australia is a sewer of antisemitism

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

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

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

A Melbourne theatre reviewed by Alex First Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Broken Broker Read more

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