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Emanuel School brings generations together for Shabbat babka bake

Have You Heard? J-Wire Newsdesk -
Emanuel School students have baked babkas alongside grandparents, relatives and family friends at an event celebrating Jewish tradition and connections across generations. The Sydney school...

Bankstown nurses ruling is no vindication

Featured Articles Elliot Vesely -
The decision to exclude the viral Bankstown nurses video is a serious setback for the prosecution. However, it is not a vindication of the accused...
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This week's cartoon: Ending the Occupation

Female guards and Nazi brutality

Books Anne Sarzin -
Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin It took courage and endurance for historian N. Koster to research and write Female...

On the other hand

Featured Articles Michael Kuttner -
Several of Israel's rare and endangered species have begun producing seeds and flowering once again as a result of...

Moral masochism and New York’s Jews

Featured Articles Ben Cohen - JNS.org -
“The true masochist,” wrote Sigmund Freud, “always turns his cheek when he has a chance of receiving a blow.” “The...

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of), now in Melbourne and touring Australia

Featured Articles Alex First -
A theatre review by Alex First A glorious spoken and sung hoot, this is an audacious retelling of Pride &...

Shooting from the lip

Featured Articles Michael Kuttner -
Instead of the “sheriff” in the White House shooting from the hip and making the outlaw gangs surrender, he...

Nationalism and Liberalism

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
I have always enjoyed reading Yuval Harari (Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus). He is creative and controversial. He covers such...

Bye-bye Bibi: May it happen speedily and in our times

Featured Articles Menachem Rosensaft -
In a profanity-filled telephone conversation last September, according to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their...

Alarm bells go off in New York

Featured Articles Melanie Phillips - JNS.org -
Extreme socialism is now on the march in America, with the demonisation of Israel as the principal weapon in...

Are Jewish Australians being given answers?

Featured Articles Michael Gencher -
There is a question hanging over the Australian Jewish community: when something happens that shocks us, frightens us or...

The JD Vance foreign policy test ride is a disaster

Featured Articles Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org -
Whether he succeeds in getting a “peace” agreement with Iran or not, the vice president’s attempt at appeasement isn’t...

Into the fray: Et tu, Donald?

Featured Articles Martin Sherman -
Iran: Has Trump lost the plot? The floated proposal makes no sense. Worse, it is dangerous. It would reward a...

Shabbat Chukat & Balak

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Alone There are two portions of the Torah that we, in the diaspora, will read this Shabbat. After the crisis initiated...

The search for Sydney’s missing Steinway

Have You Heard? J-Wire News Service -
What happened to the Steinway concert grand that once stood on the stage of the Sydney Opera House Concert...

Trump’s Iran deal leaves Israel out in the cold

Featured Articles Ron Weiser -
In assessing the situation, in light of the 14-point MOU between the US and Iran, everything revolves around how...

Can memories pass from one generation to the next?

Featured Articles Rob Klein -
Can the experiences of parents affect their children and grandchildren, not simply through upbringing or family history, but through...

Sydney Jewish Writers Festival takes stories from page to stage

Books J-Wire Newsdesk -
The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival will move beyond the printed page this August with the launch of Festival of...

On the other hand

Featured Articles Michael Kuttner -
What do you do with all the food which is left over from weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvot, Britot...

Feintooner

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This week's cartoon: AdVANCEing Antisemitism

Lecture: Is free will an illusion?

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That question will sit at the heart of a major public lecture by internationally renowned Jewish philosopher Associate Professor...

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