Lilith

There are many stories about evil spirits who are supposed to surround us and interfere in our lives. Read more

April Fools

It used to be that one day was sufficient for hoaxes and what passed as practical jokes. Read more

Henry Greener chats with Rabbi James Kennard

Rabbi James Kennard recently retired as Principal of Mt Scopus College and finally has time to talk about his 16 years leading Melbourne’s outstanding Jewish day school. Read more

L’Chaim to Life – Jeremy Ungar

Maurice Klein speaks with Jeremy Ungar, the senior trade officer of the Israel Trade and Economic Commission, Embassy of Israel in Australia. Read more

Gaza aid-worker tragedy risks overshadowing IDF efforts to protect humanitarian routes

Monday night’s unintentional Israeli drone strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy travelling along the Gaza coast, in which seven aid workers were killed, risks overshadowing a series of recent steps by the Israeli military to facilitate the flow of aid into the Strip. Read more

Ahead of national elections, South African Jews feel hope, trepidation

Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, religious leader and CEO of the African Jewish Congress, was recently walking in Johannesburg when, as a car passed by, the passengers screamed antisemitic insults at him. Read more

Is Trump really abandoning Israel?

Has Donald Trump turned on Israel? That’s the question some people have been asking in the wake of an interview he gave to Israel Hayom. Read more

Shabbat Shmini: You are what you eat

After dealing with the sacrificial system and with the roles that priests play within it, the Torah turns to the laws of kashrut. Read more

Jewish origins of Mozart’s librettist a ‘poorly kept secret’

One of the most important librettists, or authors of operatic texts, in music history, was born Jewish, but his origins weren’t known widely until the Nazis banned works of Jewish artists during the Holocaust. Read more

Dry Bones: Urban warfare

Dry Bones Read more

The Biden administration’s war against the government of Israel

The war rages in the Gaza Strip, northern Israel, Lebanon, Eilat and on the streets of Israel’s cities as Iran’s Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni proxies maintain and escalate their operations against the Jewish state. Read more

Photographers who joined the Oct. 7 pogrom deserve censure, not awards

What is the obligation of a reporter or news photographer covering an act of terrorism or warfare? Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Philip Louis Frankel

Businessman, mason, chazan, sportsman, and loyal Jew Read more

HKOPS: The other two-state solution Biden could endorse

President Biden has for the first time suggested his readiness to abandon the failed two-state solution embodied in Security Council Resolution 2334 (Resolution 2334 two-state solution) – endorsing instead a different two-state solution that could possibly be the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS two-state solution). Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: US presents Israel with alternatives to Rafah battle Read more

Dry Bones

Unuseful idiots Pre-Islamic Europe Read more

Israel’s global isolation is caused by antisemitism, not bad policies

Israel’s critics and outright foes are right about one thing: Nearly six months after the Oct. 7 massacres, its isolation is growing. Read more

On the other hand

Another “only in Israel” event demonstrates the unique experience of living here. Read more

Henry Greener talks with ECAJ’s Lynzi Bennun

Lynzi Bennun is the Digital Advocacy Director at ECAJ, the Sydney-based Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the roof body of the Australian Jewish community. Read more

Israel’s Orwellian nightmare

For the Jewish world, these are nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Read more

Anatomy of an antisemite

Francesca Albanese is at it again, cloaking her Jew-hatred in legalese and justifying it through denial. Read more

Free speech

In my youth, I always regarded free, reasoned, civilised speech to be one of the most important and positive features of Western societies. Read more

Note the hypocrisy

The world’s glaring hypocrisy is on full display as Ramadan terror strikes once again. Read more

‘Storm over ultra-Orthodox recruitment won’t topple Netanyahu’

The issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) army enlistment reached a boiling point this week as the Netanyahu government failed, despite feverish efforts, to draft legislation to address the issue before a High Court-mandated Wednesday deadline. Read more

We have ten double passes for “Golda” to give away

Thanks to Transmission Films, we have ten (10) double passes to give away to GOLDA a film starring Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin and Liev Schreiber. GOLDA opens nationally in cinemas on May 2. Read more

Into the Fray: Elections: Why now is not the time

When Israeli voters next go to the polls over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumour, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion. Read more

Shabbat Tzav Para: Humans First

We continue reading this week about the sacrifices. This is a controversial issue that challenges us to this day. Read more

Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA

Cirque du Soleil reviewed by Alex First Read more

Chicago

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7

In a no-holds-barred interview, former U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom that he supports Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and that he would have responded to the Oct. 7 attack in a very similar way. Read more

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