The Beep Test

A Melbourne theatre reviewed by Alex First Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Broken Broker Read more

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi urges ‘reset’ in Israel ties

In an address at the Israeli Embassy’s Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Pretoria on April 29, South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein called for “a reset of the relationship” between Israel and South Africa. Read more

Kneecap get kneecapped

The most successful musicians are those who understand that their art is about spectacle as well as sound. When it comes to popular music, the more controversy there is, the greater the spectacle becomes. Read more

Thunderbolts*

A movie review by Alex First Read more

The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale

A musical reviewed by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

Following Yom Hazikaron there is an instant switch to the celebrations of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. Read more

Schlissel Challahs

Happy Chag Ha’Atsmaut even if for some it is already over. There was much to celebrate. Read more

A long journey home

It has taken more than two thousand years for Jews exiled by the Romans to finally return to their promised homeland and reclaim sovereignty. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Sandra Burke

The Greens are no longer an environmental party; they are extreme – just put the Greens last Read more

Shabbat Tazria & Metzorah

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From Australia’s Jewish past

May Vivian Saqui – a forgotten actor Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:The Dog and Phony show Read more

Jewish identity hijacked in UK for political vanity

There is no shortage of people willing to sign their names to morally unserious causes…writes Steve Winston. Read more

On the other hand

Preparing for Pesach for your family and guests may be challenging, but it is nothing compared to what the IDF faces. Read more

Who’s side?

There’s no question that the challenges we Jews are facing at this moment, internally and externally, are enormous and scary. Read more

Impervious and Incurable

Yom Hashoah this year is being commemorated in the shadow of the worst outbreak of Jew hatred seen since the Nazi era. Read more

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

Echoes of history’s discords – book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

From Rome to Jerusalem: the unfinished dialogue between Jews and the Vatican

When Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, died in 1958, the debate over his silence during the Holocaust had already spanned continents and consciences. Read more

Yom HaShoah and the meaning of “never again”, in a world that forgets

As Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — approaches, Jewish communities around the world prepare to honour the memory of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, along with millions of others targeted for who they were. Read more

Shabbat Shmini

 Two Brothers Go Wrong Read more

L’Chaim to Life: in Macnamara vote Burns [1] and Saulo [2] putting them both ahead of the Greens

Morry Frenkel speaks with Tony Lupton, a passionate campaigner against what he refers to as the ‘extremist’ Greens Party, about preferencing candidates for the seat of Macnamara in the upcoming federal election. Read more

Anzac Day- Memory and Destiny

What a remarkable day, this Anzac Day is for us as Australians and for our fellow New Zealanders. Read more

Raving over fire that threatened Jewish governor?

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Netanyahu besieged: Israel’s endless revolt

They call it a revolution—the ceaseless internal upheaval, the persistent subterranean tremor that has characterised Israel’s history in these long months, as much as the war fought across seven fronts. There is, however, an eighth front: the war waged against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

Hamas’s ‘all-or-nothing’ strategy: Why it rejected a partial deal

Hamas’s refusal to accept a recent Israeli partial deal offer for a ceasefire and the release of some 10 Israeli hostages is a calculated attempt to ensure its long-term survival by forcing Israel to end the war on the terror group’s terms, former Israeli defence officials told JNS in recent days. Read more

Macron’s Middle East ‘grandstanding’ will backfire

This week, Israel revoked the entry visas of 27 French lawmakers and local officials. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Eva Bacon – dress designer, political activist, and feminist Read more

Mourning Pope Francis

Pope Francis was, without question, the most important and most influential religious and theological figure of the 21^st century, not just for Roman Catholics, not just for Christians, but for Jews as well. Read more

St Matthew Passion – Mendelssohn’s 1841 version

A music review by Shirley Politzer Read more

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