On the other hand

Tu B’Av, the Jewish festival of love has just been celebrated. Read more

Robert Wistrich and Jew Hatred

Many, many books have been written about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Read more

Kamala Harris is the “pro-Jewish candidate” in this year’s U.S. presidential election

Zealots — true believers — are far worse than merely dangerous. They can be, to seriously mix metaphors here, ideological pied pipers who lead gullible, not to say dumb, lemmings into the sea. Read more

The anti-Jewish candidate

Lauren Holtzblatt, a rabbi in Washington, D.C., caused outrage at her synagogue earlier this month when she declared that American Jews need to elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States to comply with “sacred texts.” Read more

Hate Waves

Climatologists insist that the world is probably experiencing an increase in temperatures with frequent bouts of heat waves. Read more

Trump and Carville fan antisemitic sentiment

It does not surprise me that pro-Arab advocates compare the Gaza war to Vietnam and downplay Hamas’ outrages. Read more

Shabbat Eykev Do as you would be done by

The weekly reading of Eykev follows the pattern of the previous three weeks. Read more

‘This medal was bigger than me’

“Once I finished the competition, I realized that this medal was bigger than me,” Tom Reuveny, who won the men’s windsurfing competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, told JNS on Monday. Read more

Justice for American terror victims

On Sunday evening, a Palestinian Arab male blew himself up in central Tel Aviv with enough explosives to murder hundreds of Israelis but managed only to end his own life…write Frimet and Arnold Roth. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Trevor George Rapke – a Queen’s Counsel – colourful, strong, fair, and fearless Read more

On the other hand

Israel’s Olympians made the country proud. Read more

The final nail in the Biden-UN two-state coffin

President Biden was told by Israel’s Knesset on 17 July and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 4 August that Israel would not agree to the creation of another Arab State between Israel and Jordan (“two-state solution”). Read more

Cloud Cuckoo Land

This past week has provided further proof of how many are afflicted with absurd fantasies and an unrealistic state of mind. Read more

Comfort Ye! Comfort Ye!

The Shabbat after the fast of the Ninth of Av, is called Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. Its name comes from the 40^th Chapter of the Biblical Prophet Isaiah and let us ignore the debate about how many Isaiahs there were. Read more

October 7 and the tsunami of anti-Jewish hate      

There is a long-standing perception that anti-Jewish racism stems predominantly from the far right and from those of European ethnicity.

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Shabbat Vaetchanan – The Shema

Apart from the opening statements of the so-called Ten Commandments, there is very little that we would call theology in the Torah. Read more

Freddie de Tommaso “Il tenore”

A music review by Shirley Politzer Read more

Why most American Jews will and should vote for Kamala Harris

Caroline Glick, the former Jerusalem Post columnist who authored a pro-Trump, anti-Harris hit piece published by J-Wire a few days ago, views the world through such a hardline right-wing prism that a point-by-point refutation of her article, while probably fun to write, would not be particularly instructive. Read more

Herzog on Tisha B’Av: ‘Bring them home’

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday evening called for the redemption of the 115 captives still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a special message broadcast a rally held at “Hostage Square” in Tel Aviv. Read more

Palestinians loathed Hamas’s corrupt Qatar club

Hamas leaders have every right to be disappointed with West Bank Palestinians for not demonstrating in large numbers to mourn the death of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of the terrorist group’s “political bureau.” Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Julia Rachel Rapke – feminist and civil rights activist Read more

Trump’s rhetoric vs. Harris’s policies

Former President Donald Trump drives liberal Jews to distraction when he says that American Jews have to be crazy to vote for his Democratic opponent. They call him an antisemite. But he keeps on saying it. Read more

Biden and United Nations: Are you listening to Netanyahu?

On June 10, President Biden and the United Nations Security Council slipped into Security Council Resolution 2735, their vision of the Palestinian Arab state they would both like to see created between Israel and Jordan.
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L’Chaim to Life: Debbie Lee, Festival Director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week

Morry Frenkel speaks with Debbie Lee, Festival Director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week, about the exciting program for the upcoming 2024 festival with the theme, Belonging. Read more

On the other hand

Watergen is an innovative Israeli company that has developed a machine that produces clean drinking water from the air. Read more

Eulogies

The accepted protocol when speaking at a funeral is to praise the deceased’s achievements and overlook any negative traits. Read more

The Ninth of Av: Fasting and Self-flagellation

Both Christianity and Islam have long and controversial traditions of penance that involve flogging oneself with whips or scourges that inflict pain. Read more

La Rondine

A Melbourne opera review by Alex First Read more

SIX

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Devarim: What’s in a Name? 

Why do we call this the fifth book of the Torah that we start this week, Devarim?  Read more

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