Meet Orit Elkayam Cohen
May 22, 2024 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
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 Peter Wertheim
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 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
May 22, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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 Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
May 21, 2024 by Features Desk
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 David Singer
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 Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Parade: a musical reviewed by Ben Apfelbaum
May 20, 2024 by Ben Apfelbaum
The legendary producer and director Harold Prince conceived and directed this musical on Broadway. Read more
UNRWA meets the Spanish Inquisition
May 19, 2024 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
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
May 19, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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 Michael Kuttner
Seventy-five per cent of Israel’s vegetables are grown on farms bordering Gaza. Read more
PIAF! The Show
May 17, 2024 by Alex First
Melbourne entertainment reviewed by Alex First Read more
Dry Bones: Hamas in America
May 17, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
We should have seen it coming… Read more
Buried facts about the Gaza war
May 17, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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 Michael Kuttner
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 Jeremy Rosen
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 Anne Sarzin
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 Geoff Sirmai
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 Rabbi Chaim Ingram
I have had a near-zero interest in Eurovision for the past 45 years. Read more
Dry Bones: Kickstarted
May 16, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
On our own to face the enemies of Western civilization … Read more
The Three Musketeers: Part I D’Artagnan
May 16, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Emor: Differences that Bind
May 16, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
The book of Leviticus is concerned with difference. Read more
On Independence Day, Israelis choose life
May 15, 2024 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
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
May 15, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
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 Rolene Marks - JNS
South African police forcefully removed a group of Jewish protesters from outside the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Read more
Dry Bones: Hamas mobs
May 15, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
Brainwashed for Palestinian terrorists … Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
May 14, 2024 by Features Desk
Saul Symonds – barrister and Australian communal leader Read more
Dr. Phil’s moral clarity
May 14, 2024 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
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
May 14, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
The bitter truth… Read more






