Foot in mouth outbreaks
February 14, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
A “foot in mouth” award is presented each year by the Plain English Campaign in the UK for the best baffling comment by a public figure. Read more
Rabbi Aviezer Wolfson ז״ל – A personal tribute
February 14, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
I have recently pointed out some of the negative aspects of the Yeshiva World. Read more
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
February 13, 2025 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Yitro
February 13, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Father-in-Law Read more
When Trump and Hamas refuse to leave the tough talk in Vegas
February 12, 2025 by Bruce S. Ticker
From Australia’s Jewish past
February 11, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
Samuel Berkowitz – a master craftsman with a wonderful legacy Read more
From Auschwitz to Gaza: The unfolding horror and its implications
February 10, 2025 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
In late February 1945, among the first reports on the horrors of Auschwitz was one by a Polish officer, Lt. Wacław Lipiński, who wrote in the Polpress Bulletin, “Those who have survived don’t look like human beings, they are mere shadows.” Read more
If hostages are being abused, their captors shouldn’t be rewarded
February 10, 2025 by J-Wire
It’s been more than 16 months since Israel was invaded and its citizens, including men, women and children, were subjected to mass murder, torture, rape and kidnapping. Read more
Trump buries Biden-UN two-state solution in Gaza’s rubble
February 10, 2025 by David Singer
President Trump’s decision to takeover – and makeover – Gaza – has seen the Biden-United Nations two-state solution: Unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority – buried in the rubble of Gaza. Read more
Shirley Valentine
February 9, 2025 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Memorial Days: A Memoir
February 9, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
Good grief! Loss and healing on Flinder’s Island – a book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
L’Chaim to Life
February 9, 2025 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with John Anderson, a commentator who served as the leader of the National Party and the 11th deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1999 to 2005 under John Howard. Read more
Psalms to Adonai from the Depths of the Holocaust
February 9, 2025 by Menachem Rosensaft
Ever since the Holocaust came to an end eighty years ago, we have known that it was perpetrated by human beings infused with hatred or a callous, insidious indifference. Read more
Feintooner
February 9, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: The Dynamic Duo returns Read more
An Evening Without Kate Bush
February 9, 2025 by Alex First
An entertainment review by Alex First Read more
On the other hand
February 9, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
Almond trees are blossoming, small buds are appearing on trees and the days are slowly getting longer. Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Trump, Macron and Greenland: A contrived conflict?
February 7, 2025 by Martin Sherman
It is hard to fathom why France should display such ire at the Trump proposal to procure Greenland since the idea is hardly new, having been raised several times in the past without setting off any outrage. Read more
Inevitability
February 7, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
“The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.” Read more
HKOPS & Trump
February 7, 2025 by J-Wire
President Donald Trump has raised universal hackles by his Gaza proposal. First he dared to suggest that both Egypt and Jordan should, whether temporarily or otherwise, take in Gaza refugees. And then he added that he wanted to recast the hell hole that Hamas has turned Gaza into, to the Singapore of the Mediterranean. Read more
Shabbat Beshalach
February 7, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
What is a miracle? Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past
February 4, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
Signora Rosina Tedeschi – Amazing woman and Italian tutor – extraordinaire – Part 2 Read more
Trump needs to disavow Biden’s betrayal of Israel
February 3, 2025 by David Singer
President Trump’s meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week will offer Trump the opportunity to disavow President Biden’s betrayal of Israel and its national interest – after Biden had made the following unilateral decisions and embedded them in Security Council Resolution 2735 adopted on 10 June 2024: Read more
On the other hand
February 2, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
Two “good news” items that you might have missed this past week: Read more
A Body at Work
January 31, 2025 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Samson Is Israel
January 31, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Shimshon ( Samson) is the great Jewish hero. The symbol of Jewish defiance and overcoming odds, throughout the ages. Read more
Ongoing evil
January 31, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
The late Elie Wiesel famously declared: “I thought in 1945 antisemitism died in Auschwitz but I was wrong. Its victims perished, antisemitism did not.” Read more
Companion
January 30, 2025 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Bo
January 30, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Negotiations Read more
For my great-grandparents, for all Jews, for all humanity, I say never again
January 29, 2025 by Mark Dreyfus
My father has a photograph of Albert Ransenberg taken in the yard of the railway station in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1942. It was secretly taken by a local policeman. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past
January 28, 2025 by Ruth Lilian
Signora Rosina Tedeschi – Amazing woman and Italian tutor – extraordinaire – Part 1 Read more
