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

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Houthis hit by the long arm of justice Read more

An ‘abject, squalid, shameless’ debate at the Oxford Union

In an era dominated by social media and defined by short attention spans, it’s striking that longer, more involved debates hosted by elite institutions still matter. Read more

On the other hand

At a time when tourists are thin on the ground it is a pleasure to meet and greet those who despite everything visit Israel. Read more

Adrift

All signs point to democratic societies and countries having no idea of what should be done to thwart impending chaos. Read more

The acceptable hatred of Jews

There’s something deeply disturbing about the act of prejudice. Read more

Understanding the importance of J.D. Vance

If there’s one political story that never gets as much attention as it deserves, it’s the choice of a vice-presidential nominee. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

Morry Frenkel speaks with Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet, Resident Historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum, about his view that Holocaust and antisemitism education has done nothing to prevent the recent global upsurge in hate crimes and antisemitism. Read more

Shabbat Balak – Listening to Magicians

It seems strange that the whole part of the Torah we read this week should be named after a Midianite/Moabite King, Balak, and devoted to a non-Jewish magician Bilam. Read more

The posturing over a problematic, peaceful panel

You may have heard about the furore surrounding a “problematic panel” on the exterior of the new Resettlement Centre in the Waikato, New Zealand. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Slawa Duldig née Horowitz – inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher Read more

No compromises with Hezbollah, evacuees returning to northern Israeli ghost town urge

Marking nine months away from their homes, evacuated residents of Israel’s northern border communities trekked to the abandoned town of Shlomi to call on the government to make no compromises with Hezbollah. Read more

‘A Divided Kingdom’: The discord within Hamas’s fragmenting leadership

After nine months of war, the Hamas leadership is fragmenting as internal conflicts and airstrikes on key figures take a toll. Read more

For many Palestinians, the ‘day after’ should look just like the ‘day before’

More than nine months after the Israel-Hamas war began, many Palestinians are convinced that the “day after” in the Gaza Strip will be a return to the pre-Oct. 7 era, in which the Iran-backed terrorist group still has control of the coastal enclave. Read more

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