La Bohème

An opera review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

Two experiences this week once again provided what we usually call “only in Israel” moments. Read more

An explosive moment of clarification

The Iranian war of extermination against Israel continues to be a clarifying moment for the supposedly civilized world. Read more

Daniel Deronda: George Eliot and the Jews.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England. In 1656, Cromwell failed to persuade Parliament to welcome Jews back officially. Read more

Wretched

Early this past Sunday morning, I was looking at the news headlines and reading the latest wretched pontifications from Blinken and Lammy. Read more

Why is Hamas so confident that it’s winning?

After nearly a year of suffering and grievous losses, most Israelis and Palestinian Arabs will likely observe the anniversary of the war started by Hamas on Oct. 7 with sorrow. Read more

The Israeli James Bond-style attack and Hezbollah’s next steps

The events of Tuesday afternoon in Lebanon sound like they were taken out of a James Bond movie, as sabotaged pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across the country, injuring some 3,000 people, the vast majority of whom were members of the terror organization. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

Maurice Klein speaks with Trevor Asserson, who put together a large team of lawyers and data experts to investigate the BBC bias reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict post October 7. Read more

Shabbat Ki Tavo

Two Mountains

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Albanese, fence-sitter in chief choosing politics over peace in Middle East

This week, the UN shamefully supported a motion, put forward by the Palestinian Authority, to demand Israel stop its campaign to destroy the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist regimes. Read more

Ambassador: No peace without direct negotiations

The United Nations voted for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank. The United States voted against it, Australia abstained, and New Zealand voted for it. Read more

UN adviser says Israel accused of ‘domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, ecocide’ in Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights who has a long history of antisemitic statements, said during a press conference on Monday that the Jewish state is accused of six kinds of offences in Gaza. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Isaac Henry Cohen KC – one of Melbourne’s leading barristers and well-known politician Read more

Golfing to raise awareness—and $1 million—for victims of terrorism

California high-school golf phenom Max Margolis, 17, played 101 holes on Sunday at the Caesarea Golf Club, in the baking sun, to raise money for Israeli victims of terror. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Love and Death Read more

Harris chooses UN’s road to hell – Trump offers no alternative

The Harris-Trump Presidential debate has clarified Kamala Harris’s support for the United Nations Security Council in calling for the creation of a Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan (two-state solution) – whilst Donald Trump did not say what he would do if elected as President. Read more

What could Israel expect from a Harris administration?

The path to the Oval Office has seemingly been strewn with roses for Vice President Kamala Harris since she emerged as the chief beneficiary of the Democratic Party establishment’s coup d’état against President Joe Biden. Read more

The media war against Israel

The apparent bias of the US-based ABC TV moderators in failing to call out the falsehoods reportedly spoken by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, in the debate with former President Donald Trump this week has attracted much critical comment. Read more

On the other hand

We are now in the Hebrew month of Elul. Read more

Certainties

We humans love certainties. We think we know, but more often than not, we stumble on. Read more

The Jewish antisemite on Trump’s plane

Who’d a thunk, who would ever have thunk that we would wax nostalgic for Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels, but just about now, most of us – standard-issue non-MAGA Republicans above all – would be much happier if it were the erotic film actress whispering whatever she might be whispering into Donald Trump’s ear rather than Laura Loomer, who appears to be one of the former president’s flavours of the moment if not of the month and beyond. Read more

Democracy suffers when the media can’t be trusted

Believe it or not, journalists are not at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being trusted the least by the American public. Read more

Shabbat Ki Teytzey

Who deserves respect? Read more

Low Expectations

It pays not to have any great expectations where solidarity, support and sympathy for Israel are called for. Read more

No one knows their destiny

Inside the Dunera story                  A book Review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Magnifying paranoia Read more

A Horse Named Winx – double passes with our compliments

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Is Doug Emhoff a Jewish role model or a partisan prop?

In a presidential election year unlike any other, the late-summer mainstream corporate media push to remake the image of Vice President Kamala Harris must rank as one of the most extraordinary stories in American political history. Read more

Jordanian attack on Israeli border crossing casts spotlight on Kingdom’s rising extremism

Sunday’s deadly terror attack at a Jordanian-Israeli border crossing underscored growing radicalism in the Hashemite Kingdom. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Hyman Herman – geologist and engineer and a leader in all avenues of professional life Read more

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