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The Fast of Tamuz

Today, we mark the Fast of the Seventeenth of Tamuz.   It commemorates the Roman siege of Jerusalem and when the walls of Yerushalayim were...

1,000 days after Oct. 7, the Jewish people stand proud

It is a beautiful time to be Jewish. While crowds around the world chant slogans stripped of any rational meaning, the phrase "From the river...
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Loss of innocence: the Palestinian minors who became terrorists

On June 22, 2026, two Palestinians approached Karmei Tzur, a Jewish village in the West Bank south of Jerusalem. According...

Bankstown nurses ruling is no vindication

The decision to exclude the viral Bankstown nurses video is a serious setback for the prosecution. However, it is not...

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This week's cartoon: Ending the Occupation

Female guards and Nazi brutality

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin It took courage and endurance for historian N. Koster to research and write Female...

On the other hand

Several of Israel's rare and endangered species have begun producing seeds and flowering once again as a result of...

Moral masochism and New York’s Jews

“The true masochist,” wrote Sigmund Freud, “always turns his cheek when he has a chance of receiving a blow.” “The...

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of), now in Melbourne and touring Australia

A theatre review by Alex First A glorious spoken and sung hoot, this is an audacious retelling of Pride &...

Shooting from the lip

Instead of the “sheriff” in the White House shooting from the hip and making the outlaw gangs surrender, he...

Nationalism and Liberalism

I have always enjoyed reading Yuval Harari (Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus). He is creative and controversial. He covers such...

Bye-bye Bibi: May it happen speedily and in our times

In a profanity-filled telephone conversation last September, according to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their...

Alarm bells go off in New York

Extreme socialism is now on the march in America, with the demonisation of Israel as the principal weapon in...

Are Jewish Australians being given answers?

There is a question hanging over the Australian Jewish community: when something happens that shocks us, frightens us or...

The JD Vance foreign policy test ride is a disaster

Whether he succeeds in getting a “peace” agreement with Iran or not, the vice president’s attempt at appeasement isn’t...

Into the fray: Et tu, Donald?

Iran: Has Trump lost the plot? The floated proposal makes no sense. Worse, it is dangerous. It would reward a...

Shabbat Chukat & Balak

Alone There are two portions of the Torah that we, in the diaspora, will read this Shabbat. After the crisis initiated...

Trump’s Iran deal leaves Israel out in the cold

In assessing the situation, in light of the 14-point MOU between the US and Iran, everything revolves around how...

Can memories pass from one generation to the next?

Can the experiences of parents affect their children and grandchildren, not simply through upbringing or family history, but through...

On the other hand

What do you do with all the food which is left over from weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvot, Britot...

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This week's cartoon: AdVANCEing Antisemitism

Jewish Archaeology

We live in a world of lies and misrepresentations. Nowhere is this more obvious than in regard to the...