Spain, Norway & Ireland finally swallow the Palestine poison pill

Spain, Norway and Ireland are the latest states to announce their intention to swallow the Palestine poison pill that rejects the two-state solution contemplated by the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandate): One Jewish State in 23.1% of former Palestine located west of the Jordan River and one Arab state in the remaining 76.9% of former Palestine located east of the Jordan River (Mandate Solution). Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Not knowing Reich from Wrong Read more

Into the Fray

Today’s surging antisemitism—A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer Read more

Why the pro-Hamas demonstrations are different and more dangerous

Over the last eight months, Jewish communities around the world have been both intimidated and repulsed by the surge in pro-Hamas demonstrations. Read more

Tosca

Opera at Margaret Court Arena reviewed by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

We have been invaded. Read more

R. Akiva Winner or Loser?

Rebbi Akiva, born in 50 CE, was one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmud. He was also one of the most controversial. Read more

The Odd Couple

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

International system infected with antisemitism driving false equivalencies

On multiple occasions this week, I’ve found myself wondering if I was living in some dystopian alternate reality…writes Andrew Wallace. Read more

Pride and Prejudice

Why, despite all its many years of miraculous achievements, is Israel fighting a seemingly losing battle for world public opinion? Read more

We are one. With one fate

We have been through turbulent times before and each period for those who experienced it themselves, has left deep imprints. Read more

Shabbat Behar: Why Homeland Matters

“God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and told him to tell the Children of Israel that when they come to the Land of Israel, they should give the land a rest (a Sabbatical)…every seventh year.” Read more

Israel and the world after Oct. 7—an interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy

Few men feel the pain of distant upheavals as acutely as Bernard-Henri Lévy, 75, a French philosopher, filmmaker and public intellectual. Read more

Meet Orit Elkayam Cohen

Orit Elkayam Cohen is the representative for The Jewish Agency of Israel for Australia and New Zealand. She talks with Henry Greener. Read more

An explanation of ICC’s role in calling for arrest warrants issued to Israeli leaders

Many people may be wondering how the International Criminal Court (ICC) can have jurisdiction over Israeli political leaders when Israel is not a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty under which the ICC is constituted…writes Peter Wertheim. Read more

Mendelssohn’s Elijah: a music review by Shirley Politzer

The Wedding March, which so many happy couples have walked down the aisle to, was composed by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who Queen Victoria described as ‘the greatest musical genius since Mozart’ and ‘the most amiable man.’ Read more

The ‘Butcher of Tehran and corrupt bureaucrat’: Raisi’s death changes nothing, says analyst

As Israel denounced international officials for paying tribute to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, one analyst described him as a “corrupt bureaucrat” and “a nobody” best known for executing thousands of political dissidents in 1988, and whose death will not change Iran. Read more

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

A movie review by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Sally Morris MBE – Never-ending enthusiasm, amazing energy and ideas and exceptional power of leadership
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Guterres: Relocate Gazans & back Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued this warning to the Security Council on 18 April: Read more

Billy Elliot The Musical

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Parade: a musical reviewed by Ben Apfelbaum

The legendary producer and director Harold Prince conceived and directed this musical on Broadway. Read more

UNRWA meets the Spanish Inquisition

The collaboration between UNRWA, the U.N. agency solely dedicated to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, and the Hamas rulers of Gaza continues unabated. Read more

Buried facts about the Gaza war

The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more

On the other hand

Seventy-five per cent of Israel’s vegetables are grown on farms bordering Gaza. Read more

PIAF! The Show

Melbourne entertainment reviewed by Alex First Read more

Dry Bones: Hamas in America

We should have seen it coming… Read more

Buried facts about the Gaza war

The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more

Craven capitulation

When the leader of the so-called “free world” wobbles and succumbs to appalling appeasement, international bullies and terrorists rejoice. Read more

Josephus Hero or Traitor

The man we know as Josephus (the Romans called him Flavius Josephus ), was an aristocratic Judean, born in Jerusalem in 37 CE and died in Rome somewhere around 100 CE. Read more

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