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

May 22, 2024 by  

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

May 22, 2024 by  

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

May 22, 2024 by  

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

May 22, 2024 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

May 21, 2024 by  

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

May 20, 2024 by  

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

Billy Elliot The Musical

May 20, 2024 by  

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Parade: a musical reviewed by Ben Apfelbaum

May 20, 2024 by  

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

May 19, 2024 by  

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

PIAF! The Show

May 17, 2024 by  

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

May 17, 2024 by  

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

May 17, 2024 by  

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

Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney: a book review by Anne Sarzin

May 16, 2024 by  

Dr Jana Vytrhlik’s remarkable book, Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney: The story of a visual heritage, is an impressive contribution to knowledge on this subject, which she has researched for almost a decade. Read more

Next stop: New York

May 16, 2024 by  

Doron Chester is a young and in-demand musical theatre star – born and raised in Bondi and has been in constant work since graduating from the Australian Institute of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Music Theatre). Read more

A rabbi’s praise for Eden Golan

May 16, 2024 by  

I have had a near-zero interest in Eurovision for the past 45 years. Read more

Dry Bones: Kickstarted

On our own to face the enemies of Western civilization … Read more

The Three Musketeers: Part I D’Artagnan

May 16, 2024 by  

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Emor: Differences that Bind

May 16, 2024 by  

The book of Leviticus is concerned with difference. Read more

On Independence Day, Israelis choose life

The people of Israel are different. Despite a terrible war, on Israel’s 76th birthday, nothing is clearer than the strength of its extraordinary young people. Read more

After faulting ‘fog of war’ for cloudy Hamas casualty numbers, UN’s new stats still don’t appear to add up

A day after a U.N. spokesman attributed a nearly 100% overcounting of Gazan women and children casualties to “the fog of war,” the global body now says that the overall death toll in Gaza due to the war remains the same. Read more

Jewish protesters removed from Johannesburg anti-Israel conference

May 15, 2024 by  

South African police forcefully removed a group of Jewish protesters from outside the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Read more

Dry Bones: Hamas mobs

Brainwashed for Palestinian terrorists … Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

May 14, 2024 by  

Saul Symonds – barrister and Australian communal leader Read more

Dr. Phil’s moral clarity

May 14, 2024 by  

It’s not surprising that the press had a field day following Dr. Phil’s interview on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. Read more

Dry Bones: Middle East Peace

The bitter truth… Read more

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