Sharma,Spender, Thistlewaite: The debate

Three candidates chasing votes in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs will debate each other this coming weekend. Read more

Ramadan goes out with a bang

Tens of thousands took to the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities and villages on the last Friday of Ramadan to participate in the Islamic Republic’s annual Quds [Jerusalem] Day rallies. Read more

Is Israel a Jewish State?

As Yom Atzma’ut approaches, ask the rabbi. Read more

Jordan, Arab League and UN fuel Jew-hatred on Temple Mount

Jordan, the Arab League and the UN’s failure to condemn the virulent Jew-hatred on public display during Ramadan at Islam’s third holiest religious site – the Al-Aksa Mosque – located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – is despicable. Read more

The Jewish Comedy Showcase is back…and a double pass is up for the taking

The Jewish Comedy Showcase is back with a stellar line-up of the best Jewish comedians at Sydney’s The Comedy Store. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Split Reaction. Read more

Matador la experienca, at Melbourne’s Meat Market reviewed by Alex First

Matador la experienca has taken the best of Matador and stepped it up a notch to create a totally electrifying and immersive showcase of talent. Read more

Solzhenitsyn Was Right

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), was one of the most impressive Russians of the past century. Read more

Jordan demands total control, reduced Jewish presence on Temple Mount

Jordan fears it is losing its recognized status as the official custodian of Jerusalem’s holy Muslim sites, including the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as Palestinians incited by Hamas, other terror groups and the Palestinian Authority continuously held riots during the Muslim month of Ramadan. Read more

Can the United Nations survive the war in Ukraine?

A recent letter delivered to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres by 200 former senior U.N. officials included a bleak warning regarding the consequences should diplomacy fail to end Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Read more

A talk with God about the Holocaust

For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. Read more

Prioritise the defense of living Jews while honouring the six million

As Jews around the world commemorate the Holocaust at annual Yom Hashoah ceremonies, the topic on the minds of many of those present will be the dwindling number of survivors present. Read more

Children in crosshairs: The lasting, chilling effect of the Führer

The small Jewish boy from Berlin stood a few meters from Adolf Hitler. Read more

Judeophobia Recycled

Yom Hashoah this year is being commemorated by Jewish communities worldwide amidst the biggest upsurge of hate and incitement since the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945. Read more

New Holocaust centre on IDF base designed to inspire

In the winter of 1945, a time when 10-year-old Yitzhak Perlmutter spent his days pushing wheelbarrows full of coal from train to factory in Möllersdorf, a concentration camp subcamp, saving his extra piece of bread each day for his little sister, the youngster could not possibly have envisioned that he’d have children of his own someday, much less grandchildren. Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: Yom HaShoah commemoration program

Maurice Klein chats with 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, Gidon Lev, author of “The True Adventures of Gidon Lev” and now a Tik Tok sensation. Read more

Shabbat Acharei Mot: Arrogance

Previously in Leviticus Chapter 9, the two sons of Aaron, Nadav, and Avihu had watched and participated in the dedication of the priests and the tabernacle. Read more

Downton Abbey: A New Era – a movie review by Alex First

Set in 1928, the matriarch of the Crawley family – The Dowager, Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) – may be in failing health, but she has lost none of her bite. Read more

The here and now of Holocaust remembrance

It is of tragic relevance that anti-Jewish Arab riots, rocket fire and hate-filled solidarity protests around the world have upstaged the lead-up to Yom Hashoah, which begins on Wednesday evening. Read more

Macron’s clear French victory underscores unease with Le Pen’s extremist baggage

The Jewish establishment across France and Europe breathed a sigh of relief on Sunday as President Emmanuel Macron cruised to re-election, earning 58% of the vote against Marine Le Pen’s 42%. Read more

When religion meets the barbell: Women’s powerlifting in Israel

Powerlifting competitions (known as “meets”) have been out of reach for many religious women who follow laws of modesty of dress, due to the International Powerlifting Federation requirement of competing in front of coed judges and audiences in a singlet, which exposes the arms and legs. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Jayne Josem

Jayne Josem heads the newly-named Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Isaac Nathan – the first European musician of repute to settle in Australia

Isaac was born on 24 January 1790 in Canterbury, England, the eldest son of Cantor Menehem Mona, a Polish refugee language master, who believed himself to be the son of Stanislaus II, last king of Poland. Read more

Exciting concert at Sydney’s Great Synagogue

Vladamir Fanshil continues his series of intimate concerts with an amazing offering at Sydney’s Great Synagogue. Read more

On the othern hand

With a week of Chol Hamoed (intermediate days) Pesach, Israelis took the opportunity to visit nature reserves and picnic with family and friends. Read more

Josh Burns talks with Henry Greener

Josh Burns MP, Federal Labor Member for Macnamara. discusses politics in terms of the forthcoming Federal Elections,= with Henry Greener and shares his opinions on particular topics and issues of concern. Read more

Why do we count the omer?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

San Remo Conference: Catalyst for Jewish and Arab independence

The San Remo Conference held on 24 / 25 April 1920 marked the beginning of self-determination for both the Jewish People after 3000 years of dispersion and the Arabs after 400 years of Ottoman rule. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Zeddy Lawrence

Zeddy Lawrence is now executive director at Zionism Victoria (ZV), after 12 years as national editor of The Australian Jewish News. Read more

Friday morning with Richard, Wolfgang, Carl and Felix

A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing  Read more

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