Low Expectations

It pays not to have any great expectations where solidarity, support and sympathy for Israel are called for. Read more

No one knows their destiny

Inside the Dunera story                  A book Review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Magnifying paranoia Read more

A Horse Named Winx – double passes with our compliments

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Is Doug Emhoff a Jewish role model or a partisan prop?

In a presidential election year unlike any other, the late-summer mainstream corporate media push to remake the image of Vice President Kamala Harris must rank as one of the most extraordinary stories in American political history. Read more

Jordanian attack on Israeli border crossing casts spotlight on Kingdom’s rising extremism

Sunday’s deadly terror attack at a Jordanian-Israeli border crossing underscored growing radicalism in the Hashemite Kingdom. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Hyman Herman – geologist and engineer and a leader in all avenues of professional life Read more

Opera Australia’s stars in the second row

Book review by Anne Sarzin Read more

Foreign anarchists fuel chaos in Judea and Samaria

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old US-Turkish national and member of the International Solidarity Movement, was killed on Friday during violent Palestinian clashes in the village of Beita. Read more

Global Imams Council humiliates UN Security Council

A statement published by the Global Imams Council (GIC) on 1 September has humiliated the UN Security Council. Read more

On the other hand

1 September was supposed to be the start of the new Israeli school year. Read more

Irreconcilable and Incompatible

Israel is currently faced with several challenges, domestic and foreign, which seem at first glance to be insurmountable. Read more

Dangerous Apostates

Jews hating Jews has a long history. Going as far back as the Bible. But medieval religions made a real art of it. Read more

Sunset Boulevard

A musical review by Victor Grynberg Read more

Mother

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Get in line for “A Chorus Line”

‘A Chorus Line,’ one of the best-known and most loved musicals of all time, opens at Melbourne’s St Kilda’s National Theatre on Saturday, September 7. Read more

A Horse Named Winx

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Thelma

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Shoftim

Humans and Trees Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Naomi Wolinski – lawn bowls champion and administrator Read more

Harris speaks with forked tongue on two-state solution

Kamala Harris didn’t take very long to blow her credibility when it came to whether she would pursue President Biden’s 10 June two-state solution—unifying Gaza and the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority—or any other two-state solution. Read more

Dry Bones: The demonstrations

Encouraging the murderers… Read more

Israel’s very soul lies in the balance

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Kamala’s push for Palestinian statehood

During her 27-minute interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday night, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris prefaced several of her answers with the expression, “Let me be clear.” Read more

The Nazification of anti-Zionism

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Aug. 28, Yonathan Arfi, the head of the French Jewish umbrella body Crif, complained that most of his fellow citizens have an understanding of antisemitism that is rooted in the memory of the Second World War. Read more

Rescues and retrievals since Oct 7: the timeline

The timeline of the operations that brought them all back. Read more

On the the other hand

We woke up at 5 a.m. last Sunday to the loud sound of planes and instinctively realized that something major was underway. Read more

Palestinians freed in prisoner swap return to terror

The recent death of 18-year-old Jibril Ghassan Jibril in an Israeli airstrike highlights a growing problem of Palestinians released in a November prisoner swap resuming terror activities. Read more

Israeli counterterror raids signal shift in Palestinian security cooperation, analysts say

As Israeli forces continue one of their most widespread counterterror operations in years, analysts said the raids represent a paradigm shift for Israel-Palestinian security cooperation. Read more

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