Stories from my Father: the liberating army

The war crimes that Russian President Vladimir Putin, his generals and his army are committing against Ukrainians —openly and shamelessly raping, torturing and murdering civilians, leaving cities and towns in rubble — are shocking, but to some Holocaust survivors and their descendants, these events provoke traumatic memories…writes Janine Winkler. Read more

Podcast: David Schulberg busts another myth perpetrated by Adam Bandt

David talks about Adam Bandt’s speech to Parliament on “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” on November 29, 2021. Read more

Preordained script

Quote: “The future is an unknown but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future, we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted.” (Albert Einstein) Read more

Podcast: Danny Hakim – from ‘Budo For Peace’ to ‘sports for social change coalition’

Maurice Klein chats with Aussie ex-pat Danny Hakim, who is actively involved in the field of Peace and Sport in the Middle East, being the founder and Chairman of Budo for Peace which he founded in 2004, and is the translation of his vision to create a society in which socially constructed rivals can conquer their cultural, social and political differences through the universal language of sport. Read more

The Northman: a movie review by Alex First

Viking mythology gets a workout in Robert Eggers’ The Northman. Eggers is co-writer with Sjon (Lamb) and directs the bloodthirsty piece. Read more

“I’d like to walk where they walked”

Holocaust survivor and sculptor Andrew Steiner had been providing education about the Holocaust to students for the past 40 years. Read more

Obfuscating the particularity of Passover

In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on Friday, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai described visiting the Poland-Ukraine border, where he witnessed a “never-ending stream of refugees fleeing the savage war that has torn apart their lives.” Read more

Anti-Jewish incidents in Australia up 35% in 2021 

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George Stein: 1927 – 2022

Dad was born on the 1/2/1927 to Mikosh (Mikhael) Stein. He passed away yesterday. Read more

From Australia’s past: Moritz Michaelis – a true mensch in every sense of the word

Moritz was born on 8 November 1820 at Lügde Hanover Germany.  His father was a learned and enthusiastic Talmud scholar. Read more

On the other hand

This is the thirtieth year that we will be celebrating Pesach in the Promised Land. Read more

Jordan and Israel need to act to end Jew-hatred in Jerusalem

Jordan’s failure to promote interfaith relations between Muslims and Jews has once again witnessed rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Read more

On frontlines and borderlines: JDC The Joint races to assist refugee situation in Eastern Europe

A small family from Kyiv seeking to leave Ukraine early after the fighting broke out contacted the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, commonly known as the JDC or the Joint, for help. Read more

Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is still the one holiday that is widely observed. Read more

Real freedom

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea of freedom and what that means. Read more

Passover road map

It may in the end have taken forty years to get here but the road map couldn’t have been clearer. Read more

The weakest link

It turns out that the weakest link in Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett’s eight party coalition government is Naphtali Bennett. Read more

Don’t let the Seder be a bore

The text of the Hagadah that we use today, goes back a thousand years although its origins are Mishnaic, two thousand years ago. Read more

Happening: a movie review by Alex First

Happening 90 mins: France in 1963 was a place where abortion was a dirty word. In short, it was illegal. Read more

Fear terrorism, not the Israelis defending against it

At a Tel Aviv café on Monday morning, I overheard a couple talking about the terrorist surge responsible for the fact that the normally packed establishment was as relatively empty as the adjacent Carmel Market. Read more

What is ‘Plan B’ for Israel or America if Iran nuclear deal goes unsigned?

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz made it clear on Monday that if world powers do not reach an agreement with Iran, Israel will be forced to activate “Plan B” immediately. Read more

Rabbi Shua Smukler talks about Aliyah

Ha’Aliyah and the new Olim to Israel was celebrated in Israel…a time to talk with Sydney’s Rabbi Shua Smukler as he and his family prepare for Aliyah…writes Michael Manhaim. Read more

St Kilda Shule celebrates its 150th anniversary

More than 300 guests joined in the celebrations as Melbourne’s St Kilda Shule celebrates its 150th anniversary. Read more

Making a kosher shop kosher!

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Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:   Pharoah and sickle hammer Ukraine. Read more

Crossing a line in coverage of the Tel Aviv carnage

Reporters rushed to Tel Aviv on Thursday night to cover the shooting at the Ilka pub on Dizengoff Street. Less than half an hour after the deadly spree, cameras and microphones flooded the vicinity, and the whole country tuned in to watch. Read more

The nuclear deal is not unavoidable

On Wednesday morning, five Democrat members of Congress held a news conference to express their misgivings about the nuclear deal with Iran that the Biden administration is obsessively seeking to conclude, seemingly at any price. Read more

UN General Assembly majority greenlight Russia’s rape of Ukraine

The UN General Assembly completely lost its moral compass when it voted on 7 April for Russia’s suspension from the Human Rights Council – with only 93 of its 193 member Nations voting to do so. Read more

On the other hand

Nothing is predictable or gradual in Israel. Read more

Say goodbye to Russian oligarchs

The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe is the perfect example of an organization with an imposing name and an illustrious advisory board that you’ve still never heard of. Read more

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