The Bondi Beach massacre must be a turning point for Australia

Only days ago, on the first night of Chanukah, at least fifteen innocent people were murdered in cold blood on Bondi Beach during a festive family-oriented lighting ceremony. Read more

Shabbat Vayigash

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Mamdani’s team of Jew-haters will change New York

The most important thing about the Anti-Defamation League’s latest “Mamdani Monitor” is that its results were so unsurprising and generated few headlines in New York or anywhere else. Read more

JCA launches emergency relief appeal – Bondi Beach terror attack

The Jewish Communal Appeal has announced an emergency funding response following the terror attack targeting the Jewish community at Bondi Beach on Sunday 14 December, describing the move as unprecedented in the organisation’s history.

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Abundance: How we build a better future

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Benjamin Isaacs – an extremely idealistic figure of Australasian press history Read more

Who’s afraid of Bondi Beach’s Matilda?

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Albanese and Wong helped fuel Jew-hatred in Australia

Australia’s Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong’s joint statement on 11 August 2025 (Joint Statement) to “recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September, to contribute to international momentum towards a two-state solution…” was based on a false statement of fact that had been underpinning Australia’s policy position for 11 months. Read more

The global intifada

How many wake-up calls does anyone need? The cliché that the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre was just that is singularly inappropriate. Read more

On the other hand

Who could ever have believed that one day Israel might provide Germany with a state of the art missile defence system? Read more

What can be said that hasn’t already been said?

I have been struggling with how to begin this article. Read more

Chanukah Madness

On the First Night of Chanukah (my spelling), I took a walk down to the memorial at the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street in New York (Yes, I am still here), where every year, Chanukah Chabad builds what they claim is the largest Menorah (or Chanukiah) in the world. Read more

A light unto the nations

The Hebrew prophet Isaiah spoke these memorable words from Jerusalem, the Capital of the Kingdom of Judah. Read more

Shabbat Miketz

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Sydney’s wake-up call: When antisemitism turns deadly

The terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach has brought a long-simmering fear into brutal reality. Read more

UN must abandon two-state solution and adopt HKOPS

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 35^th quarterly Report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2334 – adopted on 23 December 2016 – repeats the same pathetic message he has been delivering to the world community in previous reports without showing any tangible results. Read more

From October 7 to December 14

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Israel prepares for a ‘mass immigration event’

No recent news story better encapsulates the febrile nature of these times than the November exercise in which representatives of Israeli government ministries, welfare agencies and core service providers gamed out various responses to what they termed a “mass immigration event.” Read more

The humanitarian front against Israel 

Amazing news: Amnesty International has now acknowledged that night follows day! Read more

On the other hand

Scientists in Israel, collaborating with Australian researchers, have unveiled a groundbreaking method to restore dying coral reefs, offering new hope for marine ecosystems threatened by climate change. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Strange Bedfellows in Hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus

“Why are my tax dollars being used to murder Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh – to murder Armenian Christians?” – Tucker Carlson, November 8, 2025. Read more

A different Chanukah

When we talk about being Jewish, we become aware the very term is ambiguous and ill-defined. Read more

Disbelieving

There have been far too many times in the long and convoluted history of the Jewish People when stark reality has been denied. Read more

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Shabbat Vayeyshev

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A soldier’s new mission – fighting antisemitism

On the night of October 10, 2023, days after the massacre in Israel, crowds chanted ‘Where’s the Jews?’ at the Sydney Opera House. Watching the news the next day, Col Michael Scott turned to his wife. ‘I can’t stay silent,’ he said. It was at the moment he realised he had a responsibility to act.

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Mirrie Irma Jaffa Hill, OBE – a prolific Australian composer of her time Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  The 3 No’s of Hamas’s Pieces Plan Read more

AI outs Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman as HKOPS author

Chat GPT has outed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) as the real author of the four versions of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on the purported author Ali Shihabi’s website. Read more

On Both Sides of The Wall: A resistance fighter’s firsthand account of the Warsaw Ghetto

A riveting account of Warsaw Ghetto resistance           Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

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