UN can no longer ignore Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

President Biden has ended the Security Council’s failed eight-year pursuit to achieve a nebulous two-state solution embodied in Resolution 2334 (2016) – replacing it with his own specific two-state solution contained in United States of America Draft Resolution S/2024/448  – adopted by the Security Council 14-0 as Resolution 2735 on 10 June. Read more

Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

There’s no denying the severe tensions between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over the war being waged against Israel by Iran and its proxies. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Senator Paul Scarr “a lack of specific programs to combat antisemitism”

Morry Frenkel speaks with Senator Paul Scarr, member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and Liberal Senator for Queensland, who is currently chairing the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee enquiring into right-wing extremist movements in Australia.

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Il Trittico – an opera review by Murray Dahm

Puccini’s Il Trittico is a peculiar piece. Its name is the Italian for a triptych, three panels of the same (usually religious) artwork related to one another. Read more

Wake Up Calls

Incredibly, some individuals and groups still believe that the Arab/Islamic campaign of terror against Israel and Jews only dates from 1967. Read more

Disney on Ice: Road Trip Adventures

A Melbourne ice show reviewed by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Korach – Rosh Chodesh: Miracles

One of the amazing features of the Torah, over and above its significance as the foundation of Judaism, is the way it conveys human nature with all its greatness and pettiness, triumphs and failures. Read more

Dry Bones: Superpower

And the whole world is watching… Read more

In 21st-century Europe, Jews need new allies

The shock and dismay about the results of the first round of the French parliamentary elections held last weekend on the part of most liberal observers of European politics is palpable. Read more

Has Israel’s security apparatus learned nothing from Oct. 7?

If Mohammed Abu Salmiya hadn’t filmed a couple of hate-filled videos upon his triumphant return to Gaza on Monday morning, the Shifa Hospital director’s release from Israeli incarceration would have remained under the radar. Read more

Mural from Old Czestochowa Synagogue

The MHM’s new permanent exhibition, Everybody Had a Name, features an artistic reimagining of the elaborate ceiling mural from the Old Czestochowa Synagogue in Poland. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Lillian Roxon – foreign correspondent rock journalist and author – best known for the first Rock Encyclopaedia Read more

Time Trump focused on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

A free-flowing and spirited Presidential Debate descended into virtual silence when President Trump surprisingly blew the opportunity to clearly differentiate his policy from President Biden’s long-standing policy supporting the creation of an independent Palestinian state [also known as the “two state solution” – ed] . Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Debate Stakes Read more

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

It is amazing how many times we encounter a connection with New Zealand. Read more

The driver of Western Jew-hatred

Jew-hatred in the Diaspora is out of control and escalating. Read more

Shlomo Ben Yosef (1913-1937)

Once again, we find ourselves torn between negotiation or warfare. Read more

Myopia

An affliction is running rampant and has developed an uncanny resistance to any sort of countermeasures. Read more

Shabbat Shelach Lecha – Mental Fortitude

The reading this week is mainly concerned with the 12 men sent by Moses to tour the land of Israel prior to the invasion. Read more

Dry Bones: High Court decision

Jewish unity in a time of war… Read more

Lightscape

A Melbourne spectacle at the Royal Botanic Gardens, reviewed by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Morris Mondle Phillips – a trailblazer for the legal profession Read more

Dry Bones: History Books

History books. Read more

All of France raped a 12-year-old Jewish girl

The 12-year-old Jewish girl just raped in Paris had committed two mortal sins in the eyes of the rapists: She was Jewish. Read more

Twelve tough questions and simple answers about Israel

My good friend, Taglit-Birthright Israel’s CEO Gidi Mark, challenged me recently: “Can you offer short, punchy answers to some of the pressing questions our participants have—and some of the accusations being thrown at them?”…writes Gil Troy. Read more

Biden & UN must rethink two Arab States in former Palestine

Security Council Resolution 2735 adopted on 10 June calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza-Israel War -has included a call for the creation of a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan – the two successor States to the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and currently sovereign rulers in 94% of former Palestine: Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Feasting on Famine Read more

A Kiwi in Kibbutz Kfar Aza

The man with the microphone explains that Shavout is an agricultural festival where we celebrate the crops harvested throughout the previous year. He tells us that the most important crop is not the apples, the wheat or the avocados. The harvest most cherished is the children born into the community during the past 12 months…writes David Kepes. Read more

Israel’s challenges

Prime Minister Netanyahu is a man under huge pressure on multiple fronts. Some of his own making and some not. Read more

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