Great-grandson killed in Gaza as Shoah survivor visits Bergen-Belsen

As Magda Baratz, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, was visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she was held during World War II, her great-grandson was killed in action in Gaza. 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

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The 3.67% delusion Read more

Huckabee arrives in Israel to represent Trump’s views – not his

Mike Huckabee – America’s first-ever evangelical Christian Ambassador to Israel – has – on his first day in office – visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem – the most sacred place in Judaism – a remnant of the Second Temple – destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Read more

The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

The attack on the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro carries a number of lessons, none sharper and more urgent than the wake-up call for those who are least likely to want to acknowledge it. Read more

Chaim Shine’s Pesach

I don’t usually send out the ideas of others. But this is an exception. Read more

Maldives bans Israeli passport holders amid Gaza conflict

The Maldives has officially barred Israeli passport holders from entering the country, citing solidarity with Palestinians amid the Jewish state’s war against Hamas in Gaza initiated by the terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, murder-and-kidnapping spree. Read more

A Pesach journey into the heart of Sephardic-Portuguese heritage in the Caribbean

My recent Pesach Seder, hosted by Rabbi Dr. Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota’s family in Santiago—the Dominican Republic’s vibrant second-largest city—was an experience of profound cultural resonance and renewal. Read more

Dry Bones was resurrected as Israel’s premier cartoonist at age 81

Much has been written about the life of Yaakov Kirschen – known as “Dry Bones” to his large number of adoring fans – but little has been written about his return to drawing cartoons in his eighties until his death on 14 April at the age of 87. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Pinchas Goldhar – A Pioneer Australian Yiddish Writer Read more

The Art of Exile

New worlds for Young Adults to conquer. Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Azerbaijan: Augmenting the Abraham Accords

The Abraham Accords were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment of Trump’s first administration; he has made it clear that his new administration will seek to expand them- Forbes, March 8, 2025. Read more

Dry Bones: Togetherness

The chain of history… Read more

Bitter or better?

On Seder night, we eat bitter herbs to recall the bitter times that our Hebrew ancestors experienced during their years of enslavement and persecution in Egypt. Read more

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