From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Lewis Cohen – a merchant and politician
May 24, 2022 by Features Desk
Lewis was born on 23 December 1849 in Liverpool, England. Read more
Noa Tishby’s surprisingly welcome splash on the ‘hasbara’ scene
May 23, 2022 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s appointment last month of Noa Tishby as the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and Delegitimization of Israel raised more than a few eyebrows. Read more
Driftwood: The Musical – a theatre review by Alex First
May 23, 2022 by Alex First
Driftwood: The Musical is a heart-wrenching and inspiring piece of musical theatre, reflecting a dark period of history that changed and destroyed the lives of millions. Read more
Why do women light the Shabbat candles?
May 23, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
UN set to pillory Israel whilst condoning PLO & Hamas apartheid
May 23, 2022 by David Singer
The appointment of a new Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967– Francesca Albanese –serves to highlight the anti-Israel bias that dominates the United Nations (UN) to its eternal shame. Read more
Feintooner
May 23, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Knesset Acrobatics. Read more
Top Gun: Maverick – a movie review by Alex First
May 22, 2022 by Alex First
Top Gun: Maverick is everything I wanted and more from a sequel 36 years on. Read more
Was an American drug-terror operation against Hezbollah halted to advance the Iran nuclear deal?
May 22, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
It’s a story few listened to the first time. It’s coming around again at a critical juncture. Read more
Danny Danon looks back on his fight for Israel in the United Nations
May 22, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
In the decade that separates the two books that former ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon has written, a lot has transpired. Read more
The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonisation
May 20, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The “broken windows” theory of policing, responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. Bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored. Read more
How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?
May 20, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
It’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. Read more
Abortion
May 20, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
In 1973 the USA Supreme Court decided in Roe v Wade to strike down Texas laws that criminalized abortion. Read more
Hide and seek
May 20, 2022 by Michael Kuttner
Quote: Three things cannot hide for long. The moon, the sun and the Truth. Read more
Groups back International Legal Forum report blasting anti-Israel UN inquiry
May 19, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
A coalition of 25 pro-Israel organizations from around the world has signed on to an International Legal Forum (ILF) report castigating the U.N. Commission of Inquiry against Israel as “singularly unprecedented, unjust and completely lacking in impartiality or any legal basis.” Read more
Antisemitism claims and the election
May 19, 2022 by Andre Oboler
Media articles today about the “Angel of Death” are an abuse of Holocaust memory. I don’t mean the comments by Simon Holmes à Court, I mean the media articles themselves. Read more
Labor offers a better future for all Australians
When the cost of the necessities of life, like food and medicine, grows faster than pay packets of Australians, there is something wrong with our nation…writes Anthony Albanese. Read more
Shabbat Behar: Valuing the Land
May 19, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
An accident in the field
May 19, 2022 by Ron Weiser
In the battle between Russia and Ukraine, the Western world and most democracies, see the situation in black and white terms. Read more
Scott Morrison: I love Australia
At the start of the campaign, the first thing I said is that I love Australia…writes Scott Morrison. Read more
The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East in retrospect
May 17, 2022 by David Bedein
Lohengrin: an opera review by Alex First
May 17, 2022 by Alex First
Treachery and subterfuge abound in the Australian premiere of a new production of Richard Wagner’s otherworldly romance Lohengrin at the State Theatre, Arts Centre in Melbourne. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Isaac Isaacs
May 17, 2022 by Features Desk
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG – Australia’s first Jewish Justice of the High Court; the first Jewish Chief Justice of Australia and the first Jewish Governor-General of Australia Read more
What is the Jewish view of pornography?
May 16, 2022 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the rabbi. Read more
Podcast: Liberal Tim Wilson responds to questions from “L’Chaim to Life”
May 16, 2022 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein asks Tim Wilson (Liberal – Goldstein) questions of Jewish community interest about Israel. Read more
UN & UNRWA should demand end to refugee camps in Gaza and West Bank
May 16, 2022 by David Singer
The tragic death of Palestinian Arab-USA journalist – Shireen Abu Akleh – caught in crossfire between Israeli security forces and armed Palestinian Arabs in Jenin – should serve as a clarion call to the United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to demand: Read more
Feintooner
May 16, 2022 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Bullets and Libels.
An American in Paris: a theatre review by Alex First
May 15, 2022 by Alex First
Once you learn that Robbie Fairchild was a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet you can understand why he glides so effortlessly across the stage in a stellar display as the centrepiece of An American in Paris. Read more
Podcast: Labor candidate for Macnamara Josh Burns talks to L’Chaim – to Life
May 15, 2022 by Features Desk
Ahead of this Saturday’s federal election, incumbent Labor MP for the Melbourne seat of Macnamara features on this podcast. Read more
‘Say yes to the world’ but no to the Jews: Lufthansa’s anti-Semitic scandal
May 15, 2022 by Ben Cohen
It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a connecting flight to Budapest, was so shocking. Read more
Another German ‘mess’ has some crying foul and others keeping quiet
May 15, 2022 by Orit Arfa - JNS.org
“Deutschland 2021,” Germany 2021. That was the final, chilling line of German-Jewish rock singer Gil Ofarim, whose personal Instagram testimony about being discriminated against by a Westin hotel in Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant virally shocked the Jewish world. Read more
