On the other hand

If you haven’t visited Israel recently, you will be amazed at the enormous infrastructure work which is taking place, especially with highways and train transportation. Read more

Tortured logic: Analysts dismiss Ukraine’s attempt to blame Israel for Russia-Iran alliance

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday accused Israel of bringing about an alliance between Russia and Iran, a claim experts JNS spoke with termed “bizarre.” Read more

Israel and the importance of COP 27 to the Middle East and the Pacific

2022 is the year when it became clear to us all that we are in the midst of a powerful climate crisis that is only getting worse. Read more

Girls & Boys: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

A sharp and witty British woman unpicks her life before our eyes and what a life it has been. Read more

Netanyahu gives nod to Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

Israel’s Leader of the Opposition Benjamin Netanyahu has finally broken his silence – giving his nod of approval to adopting the Saudi-proposed Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution). Read more

Ballot box blues

If anecdotal feedback and surveys are anything to go by, an increasing number of potential voters are feeling tuned out as Election Day approaches on 1 November. Read more

Will cancelling Kanye West turn the tide on anti-Semitism?

The saga of Kanye West’s anti-Semitism is not without irony. Even after he had engendered controversy by engaging in anti-Jewish rants, West, who now calls himself “Ye,” boasted that his status as a rap music star and fashion mogul rendered him exempt from facing any real financial consequences for spreading hatred. Read more

Shabbat Noah: Tower of Babel

The Biblical narrative about the Tower of Babel was based on or inspired by the Mesopotamian Ziggurats, huge, step-like pyramids built initially some four thousand years ago. It seems that they were temples of some sort. But, as always, I look for the message behind the text and try to see the context. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Peter Wertheim

Maurice Klein talks with Peter Wertheim, Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), about the recent National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) virulently anti-Israel, anti-Semitic resolution, along with the Albanese Labor Government, not recognising West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  PODCAST Read more

Why Israeli firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir is soaring in polls, and why the left calls him a racist

The rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir is one of the major storylines of Israel’s fifth election cycle in little more than three years. Read more

The danger of another Israeli electoral deadlock

Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s falsely dubbed “centre left” Labor Party, doesn’t even bother these days to temper the radicalism that makes her indistinguishable from Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On. Read more

IDF will act ‘whenever we have precise intelligence on terrorists’

The Israel Defence Forces will act on all precise intelligence on terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, which threatens Israeli civilians or security personnel, a military official told JNS on Tuesday. Read more

DanceX Part II: reviewed by Alex First

The Australian premiere of Johan Inger’s comic, romantic dance theatre piece I New Then, set to songs by Van Morrison, is superb. Read more

Chris Minns visits Our Big Kitchen

NSW opposition leader Chris Minns has visited OBK, the Bondi community kitchen providing humanitarian support for the needy and emergency services. Read more

International Day of the Girl

The National Council of Jewish Women NSW has commemorated the International Day of the Girl with a large-scale creative charity event. Read more

Israel should stay out of the war in Ukraine

Eight months into Russia’s brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine, two things are clear about the conflict. Read more

The UN gives a master class in anti-Semitism

Guilty of Nazi-like crimes. That’s the verdict of a United Nations “commission of inquiry” on Israel that was created by the U.N. Human Rights Council to commit the Nazi-like crime of demonizing and destroying the Jewish state. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Rabbi Dr David Hailperin – A Colourful Tale

Among the many colourful Jewish figures to appear in the annals of Australia’s early history, David Hailperin remains unique. Read more

Do animals have rights?

Ask the Rabbi… Read more

The ‘settler violence’ narrative and Knesset elections

The current spike in Palestinian terrorism, marked by dozens of rock-throwing, firebombing, stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks each day, was upstaged last week by what the local press and certain politicians were highlighting as an intolerable “surge in settler violence.” Read more

Israel must arm Ukraine

As Russia continues to pound Ukrainian population centres with “kamikaze” drones manufactured in Iran, the time has surely come for Israel to arm the democratic government in Kyiv. Read more

On the other hand

We have just finished celebrating Succot, one of the three Pilgrim Festivals when Jews from all over the country, as well as from the Diaspora, would visit the Temple in Jerusalem. Read more

La Traviata: an opera review by Alan Slade

It’s always disappointing when you walk into the foyer ahead of a performance to read a sign advising that one of the principal players is not in the performance. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Kangaroo Switcheroo. Read more

Unprincipled

Definition: Someone lacking moral principles.   Synonyms: Dishonest, corrupt, immoral, unscrupulous, devious, unethical, deceitful, underhand, dishonourable. Read more

Roth confounds UN, USA & Australia: Two-State solution “is gone”

Kenneth Roth – recently retired Executive Director of Human Rights Watch – has undermined the continuation of the policy espoused by the UN, USA and Australia for the last 20 years supporting the creation of a new Palestinian Arab State between Israel and Jordan for the first time in recorded history (two-state solution). Read more

The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing

Those trying to defend the Jewish people from the tsunami of Jew-hatred swamping the West often face an implacable refusal to acknowledge that anti-Israel or anti-Zionist attitudes are the modern iteration of anti-Semitism. Read more

Yair Lapid, authoritarian and unafraid

Back in 2019, Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid infamously accused his opponent, then-prime minister and current opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, of dictatorial tendencies and contempt for democracy. Read more

Using facial profiling

Jewish House, JNF and The Central Synagogue have hosted a youth engagement event with Alan Stevens, a facial profiler who specialises in the art of persuasion and influence. Read more

In the beginning

We begin the yearly cycle of the Torah starting with Genesis and the Garden of Eden. Read more

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