Shabbat Beshalach

February 7, 2025 by  

What is a miracle? Read more

Australia’s delegation at the 80th Auschwitz commemoration

February 4, 2025 by  

The Australian delegation which recently visited Auschwitz to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

February 4, 2025 by  

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  

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  

Two “good news” items that you might have missed this past week: Read more

A Body at Work

January 31, 2025 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First  Read more

Samson Is Israel

January 31, 2025 by  

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  

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  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Bo

January 30, 2025 by  

Negotiations   Read more

For my great-grandparents, for all Jews, for all humanity, I say never again

January 29, 2025 by  

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  

Signora Rosina Tedeschi – Amazing woman and Italian tutor – extraordinaire – Part 1 Read more

Feintooner

January 27, 2025 by  

This week’s cartoon: Splitting the Catastrophe Read more

Trump & Rubio: Staunchest supporters of Israel & The Jewish People

January 27, 2025 by  

President Trump’s inspired choice of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State promises to undermine: Read more

La Traviata

January 27, 2025 by  

An opera review by Alan Slade Read more

Educators in Cairns, Brisbane and Perth combine to develop national teaching units on antisemitism

January 26, 2025 by  

The ongoing success of the In My Pocket project in schools around Australia and South Africa, has brought together Perth’s WE ARE HERE! Foundation, Cairns’s Indigenous Friends of Israel International and Brisbane-based educator Shoshana Linnane to produce units for the National Curriculum starting in primary schools.

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Noble Fragments

January 26, 2025 by  

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

On the other hand

January 25, 2025 by  

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

The art of the deal or the rout of the real?

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

Nova music festival survivor to represent Israel at Eurovision

January 24, 2025 by  

Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Supernova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, will represent Israel at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, in May. Read more

Nauseous nonsense

January 24, 2025 by  

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  

Emily, Romi and Doron are now back home with their families. Read more

Coming to terms with Nazism in Austria

January 23, 2025 by  

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Shabbat Vaeyra

January 23, 2025 by  

 Why Wait? Read more

INTO THE FRAY: An emerging strategic axis: Washington-Jerusalem-Baku

January 23, 2025 by  

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  

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  

An entertainment review by Alex First

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A deal that keeps Hamas in power is meaningless

January 21, 2025 by  

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  

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  

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

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