Israel’s treacherous frenemies

At time of writing, Israelis are bracing for a possible direct and multi-front attack by Iran. Read more

Who was Peter Bergson?

The anniversary of Hillel Kook’s death was this week. A Jewish Walter Mitty and a colorful, complex, dual personality also known as Peter Bergson. Read more

Olympic Shames

Olympiads and Jews do not have a gold medal relationship. Read more

Who was Ismail Haniyeh?

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a missile strike attributed to Israel struck a Tehran guest house killing Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s politburo and number one leader. Read more

Terror leaders killed in Beirut and Tehran: What happens next?

Within hours of each other, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, and Hezbollah’s “Defence Minister” was killed in an airstrike in Beirut, raising the spectre of further escalation in the Middle East. Read more

Shabbat Mattot Massei Rosh Chodesh Av Tuesday – Conquering the Land

This week, two sections of the Torah are read as we come to the end of the fourth Book of the Torah. Read more

Little Shop of Horrors

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

The Abraham Alliance

Nobody gives a speech like Prime Minister Netanyahu. His address to the US Joint Houses was exceptional. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Philip Masel OBE – businessman, writer, army officer Read more

Michael Easson’s address to the NSW ALP Conference

First principles. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Silence of the Lambs Read more

Dry Bones: Druze victims

We mourn our brothers and sisters … Read more

Jessica takes a piece of Paris home in K1 victory

Victory in Paris is extra sweet for Australia’s French-born paddler Jessica Fox with the Olympic medals containing fragments of iron from the Eiffel Tower. Read more

Biden & Security Council ploy sinks two-state solution

The attempt by President Biden and the UN Security Council to adopt a specific two-state solution (Biden/Security Council Solution) to end more than 100 years of conflict between Jews and Arabs has turned out to be a political disaster – virtually ensuring any future plan to create an independent state between Jordan and Israel is dead and buried. Read more

On the other hand

The most popular Jewish baby names in Israel for 2023 have been revealed. Read more

The hour of Israeli leadership has arrived

Hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his address before the Joint Houses of Congress, Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper reported that Iran has provided Hezbollah with electromagnetic pulse weapons. Read more

Inside story: Behind the Netanyahu-Harris meeting

This week, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sent strong signals to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about what to expect from a relationship should she succeed U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Read more

Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel

Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. Read more

Netanyahu’s hour

For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind. Read more

Balak, Bilam and A Donkey

Last Shabbat’s Torah Parsha (portion) of Balak is a stark reminder of how relevant that episode in Jewish history is for all of us today. Read more

Why did we go wrong?

Why are we having difficulty coming to terms with this reality, the realization of how much we are hated ? Read more

Were Americans listening to Netanyahu’s message?

What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Read more

Shabbat Pinchas: Zealots  

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Reporter’s Notebook: Kibbutz Be’eri slowly rises from the ashes of Oct. 7

As we approached the devastated villages of southern Israel, including Kibbutz Be’eri, the GPS navigation system insisted we “continue straight on Road 232,” commonly dubbed “The Road of Death” by survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

Romeo & Julie

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Marion Phillips – Australian-born British Labour Party Politician and Member of Parliament Read more

Rachmaninoff’s Vespers

Sydney Philharmonia Choir (SPC) performing “Vespers”, reviewed by Shirley Politzer Read more

Dry Bones: Tail of the snake

Bombing the Iranian puppets… Read more

The implications and audiences of Netanyahu’s address to Congress

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to address, for the fourth time, a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. Read more

Occupied Palestinian territory is reoccupied Jewish territory

The UN General Assembly should take no comfort from the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in “Legal Consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem” (“Territory”) which has failed to recognise the rights vested in the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in this Territory under articles 6 and 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – preserved by article 80 of the United Nations Charter. Read more

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