‘Regional stability’: The Mirage of the Middle East

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Etudes/Circle Electric (The Australian Ballet)

A ballet review by Alex First Read more

Tina: The Tina Tuner Musical

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Dry Bones

It’s not just New Year…. Read more

Netanyahu rebounds after political and military successes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a spectacular and dramatic week. Read more

‘Mafia Tactics’: how Hezbollah intimidates Christians, steals southern Lebanese property

The phone rests on the car’s dashboard, filming nothing out of the ordinary as it passes the green pasture of the southern Lebanese village of Aanquon. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Kamala’s unsavoury supporters

Recently, a distressed Twitter/X message from a well-known Israeli-Australian human rights jurist caught my eye. Read more

Penny Wong gets it terribly wrong

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s National Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September reveals her ignorance about the 100 years-old unresolved Jewish-Arab conflict in former Palestine: Read more

Who was Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah?

Hezbollah, Iran and their allies were stunned by the death of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah in a Friday night airstrike in Beirut. Both Israel and Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death on Saturday. Read more

On the other hand

This forthcoming Rosh Hashanah in Israel will be surreal. Read more

Guterres & UN bury Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution & peace

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has had the gall to address the Opening of the General Debate of the Seventy-ninth Session of the General Assembly on 24 September and declare: Read more

Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova

An important, extraordinary and shattering film started screening this week. Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Againis about the massacre at the Supernova music festival during the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel. Read more

Eyes wide open

We are living in volatile and uncertain times. Read more

9-11 is not 10-7

September 9, 2001. The day that changed America. Al-Qaeda struck a blow to the US by flying passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Read more

Weighing Trump’s and Harris’ policies toward Israel

We can envision Donald J. Trump wagging his forefinger as did Pakistani restauranter Babu from Seinfeld when the former president proclaimed, “The Democrats are very bad to Israel, very bad.” Read more

Should God Atone too?

We are approaching a period of atonement. And sometimes, I wonder who should be atoning. Read more

Yoav Gallant

Theodore Herzl was born in Hungary in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1891, from where he reported for the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse. Read more

What would a ground war in Lebanon look like?

Hezbollah leaders have repeatedly vowed to prevent 60,000 evacuated residents of northern Israel to return to their homes, prompting escalating rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes — all raising the likelihood of a ground invasion of Lebanon. Read more

Our cup Runnicled over

A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing Read more

Shabbat Nitzavim & Vayeylech

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Israel’s quandary: Can it afford to win in the face of international opprobrium?

The life of Israel is a split screen. Read more

As goes Hezbollah ….

As Israel pounds Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, it appears that Israel’s actions on the northern front will change the situation in the Middle East. Read more

Fragile creatures: A memoir of love and pain

A book review by Anne Sarzin Read more

Review: Alex Edelman: “Just For Us” – The most Jewish comedy special since Jackie Mason

A confession: Until last week, when he won an Emmy Award, I had never heard of Alex Edelman. Read more

No, Israel’s war against Hamas not floundering

The Times’ Middle East Editor Richard Spencer describes Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in Gaza as floundering, with little conviction behind it. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Hephzibah Menuhin – American-Australian pianist, writer, and passionate supporter of women’s and children’s rights. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The road to peace runs through Hezblastollah Read more

Adler, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and “As a Jew…”

On the weekend, I was planning to write about Israel’s pinpoint pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah, whose leader, Hassan Nasrallah, describes the Jewish state as a “cancerous gland” in the Middle East. But I was thrown off course by Louise Adler’s op-ed headlined, “These are the things I’ve learnt you can’t ask about Israel.” Read more

Palestine: 124 Nations display their Jew-hating credentials

124 of the 193 member nations of the United Nations have publicly recorded their hatred of Jews – banding together to demand: Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Jacqueline Maley

Morry Frenkel speaks with Jacqueline Maley, columnist and senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, about her recent Sunday Age opinion piece: “What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides”. Read more

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