Macron’s Middle East ‘grandstanding’ will backfire
April 22, 2025 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
This week, Israel revoked the entry visas of 27 French lawmakers and local officials. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past
April 22, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
Eva Bacon – dress designer, political activist, and feminist Read more
Mourning Pope Francis
April 22, 2025 by Menachem Rosensaft
Pope Francis was, without question, the most important and most influential religious and theological figure of the 21st century, not just for Roman Catholics, not just for Christians, but for Jews as well. Read more
St Matthew Passion – Mendelssohn’s 1841 version
April 21, 2025 by Shirley Politzer
A music review by Shirley Politzer Read more
Feintooner
April 21, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: The 3.67% delusion Read more
Huckabee arrives in Israel to represent Trump’s views – not his
April 21, 2025 by David Singer
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
April 18, 2025 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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
April 17, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
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
April 16, 2025 by Noam Bedein
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
April 16, 2025 by David Singer
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
April 15, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
Pinchas Goldhar – A Pioneer Australian Yiddish Writer Read more
The Art of Exile
April 15, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
New worlds for Young Adults to conquer. Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Azerbaijan: Augmenting the Abraham Accords
April 15, 2025 by Martin Sherman
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
April 11, 2025 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
The chain of history… Read more
Bitter or better?
April 11, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
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?
April 11, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
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
April 10, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Sweet Smell Read more
L’Chaim – to Life: a podcast featuring Michael Danby
April 10, 2025 by Features Desk
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
April 9, 2025 by Ron Weiser
There is no doubt that President Trump is a friend of Israel. Read more
Trump stumbles over student deportation process
April 9, 2025 by Bruce S. Ticker
What creates a Palestinian terrorist and his foreign supporters?
April 8, 2025 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump have a lot to discuss. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past
April 8, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
Hannah (Hansey) Eizenberg – Concert Pianist, Book Importer and Publisher Read more
Israel stakes claim while Trump takes aim
April 7, 2025 by David Singer
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
April 6, 2025 by Alex Traiman - JNS.org
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
April 6, 2025 by Greg Bouwer
In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip, dismantling every settlement and evacuating its military forces. Read more
On the other hand
April 6, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
On Friday Jerusalem hosted the 14th International Marathon, with competitors participating from overseas as well as from Israel. Read more
Small Things Like These
April 6, 2025 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First
The Gazan revolt
April 4, 2025 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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
April 4, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
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
April 4, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
The theme songs are similar when emanating from political pontificators, international bodies, media mavens or off-key self-loathers. Read more