Shirley Valentine
February 9, 2025 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Memorial Days: A Memoir
February 9, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
Good grief! Loss and healing on Flinder’s Island – a book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
L’Chaim to Life
February 9, 2025 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with John Anderson, a commentator who served as the leader of the National Party and the 11th deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1999 to 2005 under John Howard. Read more
Food that brings us together: The Jewish Food Festival returns!
February 9, 2025 by Community Editor
The Jewish Food Festival, created by Sydney’s Shalom Collective, returns for its third year with an exciting milestone: the official launch of the Shalom Collective brand. Read more
Psalms to Adonai from the Depths of the Holocaust
February 9, 2025 by Menachem Rosensaft
Ever since the Holocaust came to an end eighty years ago, we have known that it was perpetrated by human beings infused with hatred or a callous, insidious indifference. Read more
Feintooner
February 9, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: The Dynamic Duo returns Read more
An Evening Without Kate Bush
February 9, 2025 by Alex First
An entertainment review by Alex First Read more
On the other hand
February 9, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
Almond trees are blossoming, small buds are appearing on trees and the days are slowly getting longer. Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Trump, Macron and Greenland: A contrived conflict?
February 7, 2025 by Martin Sherman
It is hard to fathom why France should display such ire at the Trump proposal to procure Greenland since the idea is hardly new, having been raised several times in the past without setting off any outrage. Read more
Inevitability
February 7, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
“The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.” Read more
HKOPS & Trump
February 7, 2025 by J-Wire
President Donald Trump has raised universal hackles by his Gaza proposal. First he dared to suggest that both Egypt and Jordan should, whether temporarily or otherwise, take in Gaza refugees. And then he added that he wanted to recast the hell hole that Hamas has turned Gaza into, to the Singapore of the Mediterranean. Read more
Shabbat Beshalach
February 7, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
What is a miracle? Read more
Australia’s delegation at the 80th Auschwitz commemoration
February 4, 2025 by J-Wire photo story
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 Ruth Lilian
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 David Singer
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 Michael Kuttner
Two “good news” items that you might have missed this past week: Read more
A Body at Work
January 31, 2025 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Samson Is Israel
January 31, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Bo
January 30, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Negotiations Read more
For my great-grandparents, for all Jews, for all humanity, I say never again
January 29, 2025 by Mark Dreyfus
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 Ruth Lilian
Signora Rosina Tedeschi – Amazing woman and Italian tutor – extraordinaire – Part 1 Read more
Feintooner
January 27, 2025 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Splitting the Catastrophe Read more
Trump & Rubio: Staunchest supporters of Israel & The Jewish People
January 27, 2025 by David Singer
President Trump’s inspired choice of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State promises to undermine: Read more
La Traviata
January 27, 2025 by Alan Slade
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 J-Wire Newsdesk
Noble Fragments
January 26, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
On the other hand
January 25, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
The art of the deal or the rout of the real?
January 24, 2025 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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
