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
Feintooner
January 27, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Splitting the Catastrophe Read more
Trump & Rubio: Staunchest supporters of Israel & The Jewish People
January 27, 2025 by David Singer
President Trump’s inspired choice of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State promises to undermine: Read more
La Traviata
January 27, 2025 by Alan Slade
An opera review by Alan Slade Read more
The art of the deal or the rout of the real?
January 24, 2025 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, has called the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal an “inflection point” for peace in the Middle East. Read more
Nauseous nonsense
January 24, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
The definition of nausea is “a feeling of sickness with an inclination to vomit.” Read more
The unpredictability of Donald Trump
January 23, 2025 by Ron Weiser
Emily, Romi and Doron are now back home with their families. Read more
Coming to terms with Nazism in Austria
January 23, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
Shabbat Vaeyra
January 23, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Why Wait? Read more
INTO THE FRAY: An emerging strategic axis: Washington-Jerusalem-Baku
January 23, 2025 by Martin Sherman
Trump administration should factor the unique model of Judeo-Muslim collaboration between Israel and Azerbaijan, which transcends prevailing geopolitical divisions, into its foreign policy aimed at engendering enhanced international stability. Read more
Why Trump-haters need to believe that Elon is a Nazi
January 22, 2025 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Anyone aware of what is being said on left-wing social-media platforms knew this was coming. Read more
Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour
January 22, 2025 by Alex First
An entertainment review by Alex First
A deal that keeps Hamas in power is meaningless
January 21, 2025 by Khaled Abu Toameh
Those who think that the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas will abandon its jihad to murder Jews and destroy Israel in the aftermath of the recent ceasefire agreement are mistaken. Read more
Feintooner
January 21, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Exit stage Left, Enter stage Right Read more
Two-state solution is not a solution to end Jewish-Arab conflict
January 20, 2025 by David Singer
The international community jetted off on a fool’s errand to Norway on 15 January for the third meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State solution (Global Alliance) – created in September last year on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Read more
On the other hand
January 19, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
The Iron Dome has enabled Israel to detect and destroy most incoming hostile missiles and rockets. Read more
British Mandate a Mistake?
January 19, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
The ignorant (or brainwashed) , useful idiots who call for the destruction of a Jewish homeland, claim that the Mandate that granted Jews a homeland was not only a mistake but an original sin. Read more
Wolf Man
January 17, 2025 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
