Henry Greener chats with Alida Lipton

Yoga Teacher Alida Lipton, the first female President of AJAX Football Club, has been appointed this week to lead the iconic Jewish football club into a bright, promising future. Read more

Is Alan Dershowitz right to warn against the ‘override clause’?

The enthusiastic response of the “anybody but Bibi” camp to a video message delivered on Friday by renowned criminal attorney Alan Dershowitz through the Hebrew news site Ynet is amusing. Read more

Is the world waking up to the atrocities of the ayatollahs?

It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent tyranny that loathes women, dissidents and anyone who does not conform to its theocratic ideology. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rosa Smith  – her mission in life was only to help others

Rosa Smith was born Rosa Henriques in Port Maria, Jamaica, in 1853. Read more

On the other hand

Have you ever tasted the difference between organically grown vegetables and the commercially available variety in supermarkets? Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: U.N.ETFLIX  Read more

NYT needs to end silence on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The visit to Hebron this week by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Kathleen Kingsbury, The New York Times Opinion Editor, could see the NYT finally breaking its silence on the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine proposal published in the Saudi Arabian government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022. Read more

$70,000 in grants for Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs

Member for the NSW State electorate Vaucluse Gabrielle Upton has announced that $400,000 in grants have been secured for 15 community organisations in the Vaucluse Electorate through the NSW Government’s 2022 Community Building Partnership Program. Read more

What is the best way to give charity?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake

A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again. Read more

Circumcision

The month of Kislev that we have just entered is when we celebrate Chanukah and the rebellion against Greek overlords more than 2,000 years ago. Read more

Stable doors and bolting horses

This well known expression is generally understood as “to be so late in taking action to prevent something bad happening that the bad event has already happened.” Read more

Jack Chrapot tells Henry Greener why he is wild about Harry

AJAX Footy Stalwart Jack Chrapot has never missed a match day as a club man and junior team manager for over 40 years. Read more

Shabbat Vayeytzey: Dreams and Fears

Jacob flees his parents’ home because he fears that Esau will kill him for taking the blessing from Isaac. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Dr Rick Hodes – caring for the sickest children in Ethiopia

Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Rick Hodes, medical director of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or The Joint), about his more than 30 years in Ethiopia caring for the sickest children in one of the world’s poorest countries. PODCAST Read more

The whole truth about Ukraine’s past matters

If you want to understand the roots of today’s conflicts, there’s no alternative to learning history. That’s especially true with respect to Ukraine and its efforts to repel a Russian invasion. Read more

The not so beautiful game

They call football the beautiful game – a game played with grace and beauty and elegance as if poetry itself has leapt from the pages and onto the playing fields where players move with the smoothness of a gentle breeze across vast desert sands…writes Justin Ambler. Read more

Trump’s Jewish supporters must condemn and disavow him

If pro-Israel Republicans think former President Donald Trump will apologise or make amends in any way for choosing to have a public dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort home with two notorious antisemites, they haven’t been paying attention to how he has conducted his public career. Read more

Trump must make amends to the Jewish community

Donald Trump went too far. From the outset of his political career, he has been accused of supporting the racist right and some of his statements in this regard have come under harsh criticism from his Democratic rivals. Despite this, Trump has long avoided any soundbite that might sound antisemitic. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Lilian Leah Kloot – an inspirational community woman

Lilian, known as Leah, was born in England in 1886 to Spielman Solom Kloot and Rosetta Woolf Kloot. Read more

Carmen’s Don Jose: Diego Torre speaks with Murray Dahm

I spoke with Diego Torre ahead of Carmen on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island, in which he takes on the role of Don Jose. Read more

RIP UN two-State solution, Hello Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The United Nations two-State solution – first proposed on 29 November 1947 – needs to be finally buried and replaced with the Saudi peace solution proposed on 8 June 2022. Read more

“Carmen “ on Cockatoo Island. ‘Unforgettable and a must see’ says Victor Grynberg

Carmen is probably the most played opera around the world. Read more

Why do we need a minyan?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Where is Jewish Leadership?

The Israeli leadership, unfortunately, does not argue its case well in the hostile international arena, in spite of ample historical evidence supporting the Jewish narrative. Read more

Monsters: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

As children, what did we fear the most? That the boogie man will get us. Read more

On the other hand

Every Thursday, I walk to our local public library in order to stock up on another week’s supply of books and return those already read. Read more

The humbug of the West over murdered Israelis

It’s been another epic week for Western hypocrisy. And it’s been another epic week for indifference or worse towards Israel. The two are, of course, intimately connected. Read more

Educating children

“Spare the rod and spoil the child” goes the old English saying. It is based on the book of Proverbs 13.24 “He who holds back the stick must hate his child”. Read more

Bible Quiz winner off to Israel

The ZFA’s annual national Bible Quiz took place on Tuesday 15 November and was a fantastic display of the commitment of the contestants to their learning and to the Tanach. Read more

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