From Australia’s Jewish Past

Nahum Barnet – one of Melbourne’s most productive commercial architects Read more

The Israeli Air Force strikes

Where is the Air Force? Read more

The Israeli imperative to destroy myths, not just missiles

Israel’s preemptive strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon during the wee hours of Sunday morning temporarily shifted focus away from Hamas in Gaza and from the next round of bogus “ceasefire” negotiations in Cairo for the release of hostages. Read more

Human shields: ‘Every third house’ in South Lebanon is used by Hezbollah for military purposes

It was no accident that during Sunday morning’s Hezbollah barrage, the Israeli military warned residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes noting that the Iran-backed terror group stores and fires rockets from civilian areas. Read more

Has Harris heard Netanyahu and Israel?

Kamala Harris – in her acceptance speech on 22 August as Democratic Party nominee for President– signalled she had now abandoned pursuing the creation of a Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan proposed by President Biden on 10 June. Read more

On the other hand

Tu B’Av, the Jewish festival of love has just been celebrated. Read more

Robert Wistrich and Jew Hatred

Many, many books have been written about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Read more

Kamala Harris is the “pro-Jewish candidate” in this year’s U.S. presidential election

Zealots — true believers — are far worse than merely dangerous. They can be, to seriously mix metaphors here, ideological pied pipers who lead gullible, not to say dumb, lemmings into the sea. Read more

The anti-Jewish candidate

Lauren Holtzblatt, a rabbi in Washington, D.C., caused outrage at her synagogue earlier this month when she declared that American Jews need to elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States to comply with “sacred texts.” Read more

Hate Waves

Climatologists insist that the world is probably experiencing an increase in temperatures with frequent bouts of heat waves. Read more

Trump and Carville fan antisemitic sentiment

It does not surprise me that pro-Arab advocates compare the Gaza war to Vietnam and downplay Hamas’ outrages. Read more

The Yellow Piano – You Are Not Alone

In Sydney tomorrow – Friday 23 August from 10:00am – 5:00pm StandWithUs and Together with Israel  bring the The Yellow Piano and its message of “You Are Not Alone” to our community, inviting the public to engage with the piano. Read more

Shabbat Eykev Do as you would be done by

The weekly reading of Eykev follows the pattern of the previous three weeks. Read more

‘This medal was bigger than me’

“Once I finished the competition, I realized that this medal was bigger than me,” Tom Reuveny, who won the men’s windsurfing competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, told JNS on Monday. Read more

Justice for American terror victims

On Sunday evening, a Palestinian Arab male blew himself up in central Tel Aviv with enough explosives to murder hundreds of Israelis but managed only to end his own life…write Frimet and Arnold Roth. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Trevor George Rapke – a Queen’s Counsel – colourful, strong, fair, and fearless Read more

On the other hand

Israel’s Olympians made the country proud. Read more

The final nail in the Biden-UN two-state coffin

President Biden was told by Israel’s Knesset on 17 July and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 4 August that Israel would not agree to the creation of another Arab State between Israel and Jordan (“two-state solution”). Read more

Israel-Palestine: NIF Explores Solutions

On Tuesday, 27 August at 7:30 pm, the New Israel Fund Australia will host an online event titled “One State, Two States or a Land for All?” Read more

Cloud Cuckoo Land

This past week has provided further proof of how many are afflicted with absurd fantasies and an unrealistic state of mind. Read more

Comfort Ye! Comfort Ye!

The Shabbat after the fast of the Ninth of Av, is called Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. Its name comes from the 40^th Chapter of the Biblical Prophet Isaiah and let us ignore the debate about how many Isaiahs there were. Read more

October 7 and the tsunami of anti-Jewish hate      

There is a long-standing perception that anti-Jewish racism stems predominantly from the far right and from those of European ethnicity.

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Shabbat Vaetchanan – The Shema

Apart from the opening statements of the so-called Ten Commandments, there is very little that we would call theology in the Torah. Read more

Freddie de Tommaso “Il tenore”

A music review by Shirley Politzer Read more

Emanuel School Announces New Principal

Sydney’s Emanuel School has announced that Linda Emms will assume the role of Principal beginning in January 2025. Read more

Why most American Jews will and should vote for Kamala Harris

Caroline Glick, the former Jerusalem Post columnist who authored a pro-Trump, anti-Harris hit piece published by J-Wire a few days ago, views the world through such a hardline right-wing prism that a point-by-point refutation of her article, while probably fun to write, would not be particularly instructive. Read more

Herzog on Tisha B’Av: ‘Bring them home’

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday evening called for the redemption of the 115 captives still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a special message broadcast a rally held at “Hostage Square” in Tel Aviv. Read more

Palestinians loathed Hamas’s corrupt Qatar club

Hamas leaders have every right to be disappointed with West Bank Palestinians for not demonstrating in large numbers to mourn the death of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of the terrorist group’s “political bureau.” Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Julia Rachel Rapke – feminist and civil rights activist Read more

Trump’s rhetoric vs. Harris’s policies

Former President Donald Trump drives liberal Jews to distraction when he says that American Jews have to be crazy to vote for his Democratic opponent. They call him an antisemite. But he keeps on saying it. Read more

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