Albanese and Wong helped fuel Jew-hatred in Australia

Australia’s Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong’s joint statement on 11 August 2025 (Joint Statement) to “recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September, to contribute to international momentum towards a two-state solution…” was based on a false statement of fact that had been underpinning Australia’s policy position for 11 months. Read more

The global intifada

How many wake-up calls does anyone need? The cliché that the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre was just that is singularly inappropriate. Read more

On the other hand

Who could ever have believed that one day Israel might provide Germany with a state of the art missile defence system? Read more

What can be said that hasn’t already been said?

I have been struggling with how to begin this article. Read more

Chanukah Madness

On the First Night of Chanukah (my spelling), I took a walk down to the memorial at the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street in New York (Yes, I am still here), where every year, Chanukah Chabad builds what they claim is the largest Menorah (or Chanukiah) in the world. Read more

A light unto the nations

The Hebrew prophet Isaiah spoke these memorable words from Jerusalem, the Capital of the Kingdom of Judah. Read more

Shabbat Miketz

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Sydney’s wake-up call: When antisemitism turns deadly

The terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach has brought a long-simmering fear into brutal reality. Read more

UN must abandon two-state solution and adopt HKOPS

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 35^th quarterly Report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2334 – adopted on 23 December 2016 – repeats the same pathetic message he has been delivering to the world community in previous reports without showing any tangible results. Read more

From October 7 to December 14

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Israel prepares for a ‘mass immigration event’

No recent news story better encapsulates the febrile nature of these times than the November exercise in which representatives of Israeli government ministries, welfare agencies and core service providers gamed out various responses to what they termed a “mass immigration event.” Read more

The humanitarian front against Israel 

Amazing news: Amnesty International has now acknowledged that night follows day! Read more

On the other hand

Scientists in Israel, collaborating with Australian researchers, have unveiled a groundbreaking method to restore dying coral reefs, offering new hope for marine ecosystems threatened by climate change. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Strange Bedfellows in Hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus

“Why are my tax dollars being used to murder Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh – to murder Armenian Christians?” – Tucker Carlson, November 8, 2025. Read more

A different Chanukah

When we talk about being Jewish, we become aware the very term is ambiguous and ill-defined. Read more

Disbelieving

There have been far too many times in the long and convoluted history of the Jewish People when stark reality has been denied. Read more

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Shabbat Vayeyshev

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A soldier’s new mission – fighting antisemitism

On the night of October 10, 2023, days after the massacre in Israel, crowds chanted ‘Where’s the Jews?’ at the Sydney Opera House. Watching the news the next day, Col Michael Scott turned to his wife. ‘I can’t stay silent,’ he said. It was at the moment he realised he had a responsibility to act.

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Mirrie Irma Jaffa Hill, OBE – a prolific Australian composer of her time Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  The 3 No’s of Hamas’s Pieces Plan Read more

AI outs Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman as HKOPS author

Chat GPT has outed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) as the real author of the four versions of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on the purported author Ali Shihabi’s website. Read more

On Both Sides of The Wall: A resistance fighter’s firsthand account of the Warsaw Ghetto

A riveting account of Warsaw Ghetto resistance           Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Netanyahu deserves exoneration, not a pardon

Since submitting a formal request for a pardon from Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been issuing explanations for what many of his supporters consider a disappointing move. Read more

Britain’s new far-left party may be Jeremy Corbyn’s undoing

Like a stubborn stain that clings to your shirt no matter how many times you venture to the dry cleaners, Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom, refuses to disappear. Read more

On the Other Hand

The next time you visit Israel, keep an eye out for United Hatzalah’s newest emergency response vehicle to hit the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Read more

The canonisation of Marwan Barghouti

Celebrity narcissists looking for another virtue to signal have alighted upon a fresh cause appropriate to their moral stature: freedom for a notorious mass murderer of the innocent. Read more

Lunacy unleashed

Journalists and those working in the mainstream news media are familiar with the expression “the silly season.” Read more

Excessive Weddings

It has been part of my life as a rabbi to attend weddings; more often than not to “perform.” Read more

’Tis the season to be jihadi

It’s that time of year again: Christmas trees and Chanukah menorahs; tinsel and dreidels; plum puddings and potato latkes; Christmas caroling and Adam Sandler’s Chanukah song—and, of course, everyone’s favourite holiday cheer: Muslims proving once again that “Peace on Earth and goodwill toward Men” is a Judeo-Christian tradition that they want no part of. Read more

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