IDF plans for Rafah op draw on extensive Israeli experience
May 2, 2024 by Yaakov Lappin
As the War Cabinet waits for a reply from Hamas to the latest far-reaching, unprecedented Israeli proposal for a hostage release deal, the IDF has drawn up operational plans for large-scale urban warfare in Hamas’s last remaining bastion in Rafah, southern Gaza. Read more
Don’t compromise with pro-Hamas students; expel or suspend them
May 2, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Negotiating with mobs is always a fool’s errand. Read more
Director Guy Nattiv talks about Golda
May 2, 2024 by Alex First
The biographical drama Golda is a new film released today about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Read more
Shabbat Acharei Mot: Forbidden Sex
May 2, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
The Torah this week gives a list of forbidden sexual relations.
The confused world and murderous rhetoric of Khyami James
May 2, 2024 by Bruce S. Ticker
It looks like I need to take out a restraining order against Khymani James, who, at the age of 20, went down in modern history this weekend, clamouring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life
May 2, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Rev Mark Leach, co-founder of ‘Never Again Is Now’, a grassroots Christian movement educating and mobilising Christians to actively stand against the oldest of the world’s hatreds: Jew-hatred-antisemitism. Read more
The Fall Guy
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
You’re Being Dramatic
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Golda
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Potted Potter, The Unauthorized Harry Experience, A Parody by Dan and Jeff
May 1, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Alan Philip Frankel – a World War I Veteran’s Journey
April 30, 2024 by Features Desk
The last story before Pesach was written about Philip Louis Frankel. Read more
Now is the time for choosing
April 28, 2024 by Caroline Glick - JNS
On Wednesday, hikers around the southern Israeli city of Arad discovered the remains of an Iranian ballistic missile from the April 13 overnight assault. Read more
Tony Abbott tells JNS: Talk of Palestinian state does not represent country
April 28, 2024 by Amelie Botbol - JNS
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was not representing most of her country’s citizens when she said that recognizing a Palestinian state would not constitute a reward for Israel’s enemies, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott told JNS. Read more
On the other hand
April 28, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
What time did you finish? Read more
RBG: Of Many, One
April 28, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
UN lobbies to recognize fictitious State of Palestine
April 28, 2024 by David Singer
The United Nations has become actively involved in lobbying its member states to recognize a fictitious State of Palestine that does not meet the legal requirements for statehood laid down in the 1933 Montevideo Convention. Read more
‘Pro-Palestine’ campus mobs think Jew-hatred is progressive
April 26, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. Read more
Dry Bones: War assessment
April 26, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
War assessment Read more
Shamefully disconnected
April 26, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Our annual Seder commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt has concluded for another year. Read more
An ANZAC Day lesson on Surafend
April 25, 2024 by Barbara Miller
“While Surafend is a little-known part of our ANZAC history, I went there twice in 2010 and 2017, met locals and researched the history,” said author, historian and pastor Barbara Miller. Read more
Things I Know To Be True
April 25, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
The perils of a ‘revitalized’ Palestinian Authority
April 22, 2024 by Danny Danon
The world is now contemplating the future governance of Gaza in the aftermath of the horrific Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing war. Read more
Palestine – let the UN farce end
April 22, 2024 by David Singer
The latest attempt by the Security Council to admit “the State of Palestine” to membership of the United Nations has been vetoed by America – whilst the Security Council refuses to even discuss an alternative solution – the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution – which calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one territorial entity. Read more
Feintooner
April 22, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: It’s all baked in the birthday cake. Read more
The Almighty Sometimes (MTC)
April 22, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
On the other hand
April 22, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
The change of seasons in Israel is usually not a gradual transition but more like an abrupt switch. Read more
The Trojan War (A Slightly Isolated Dog)
April 22, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Israel needs to loved and feared
April 19, 2024 by Ron Weiser
To paraphrase Micah Goodman, the bind that Israel is in, is that to ensure its long-term existence, Israel needs to be loved by the West and yet simultaneously, feared by her enemies in the Middle East. Read more
Slavery today
April 19, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
We tend to think of slavery as something belonging entirely to the past. Read more
Plagues – past, present and future
April 19, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Why was this night different from all other nights? Read more
