Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people

One of the inevitable results of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month and subsequent refusal to drop out of the 2024 presidential race in November is the increasing attention being paid to his running mate. Read more

Shabbat Chukat: The Unknowable

There are various words for law in the Bible. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Dan Coleman – It’s not easy being a Jewish Green

Morry Frenkel speaks with Dan Coleman, an environmental activist for almost 40 years, co-founder in 2016 of the Jewish Greens Working Group and since January this year, a former member of the Australian Greens, about his time as a ‘Green’ and the circumstances that led him to resign from that party. Dan also talks about the dismal outlook for the environment due to global governmental inaction. Read more

A conversation with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya

Lidiya Yankovskaya left her home city of St Petersburg in 1995 to seek a new home with her family in Albany, New York, escaping the rampant antisemitism sweeping the Russian city. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Robert Pikler – violinist, violist and conductor Read more

On the other hand

Who doesn’t relish the taste of homemade Shabbat meals? Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Elections and Deceptions Read more

UN can no longer ignore Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

President Biden has ended the Security Council’s failed eight-year pursuit to achieve a nebulous two-state solution embodied in Resolution 2334 (2016) – replacing it with his own specific two-state solution contained in United States of America Draft Resolution S/2024/448  – adopted by the Security Council 14-0 as Resolution 2735 on 10 June. Read more

Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

There’s no denying the severe tensions between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over the war being waged against Israel by Iran and its proxies. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Senator Paul Scarr “a lack of specific programs to combat antisemitism”

Morry Frenkel speaks with Senator Paul Scarr, member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and Liberal Senator for Queensland, who is currently chairing the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee enquiring into right-wing extremist movements in Australia.

Read more

Il Trittico – an opera review by Murray Dahm

Puccini’s Il Trittico is a peculiar piece. Its name is the Italian for a triptych, three panels of the same (usually religious) artwork related to one another. Read more

Freedom march in Melbourne on Sunday

This Sunday, July 7, a freedom march will take place around Caulfield Park to mark nine months since the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas in which some 1200 people were brutally murdered and more than 240 were taken hostage. Read more

Wake Up Calls

Incredibly, some individuals and groups still believe that the Arab/Islamic campaign of terror against Israel and Jews only dates from 1967. Read more

Disney on Ice: Road Trip Adventures

A Melbourne ice show reviewed by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Korach – Rosh Chodesh: Miracles

One of the amazing features of the Torah, over and above its significance as the foundation of Judaism, is the way it conveys human nature with all its greatness and pettiness, triumphs and failures. Read more

Dry Bones: Superpower

And the whole world is watching… Read more

In 21st-century Europe, Jews need new allies

The shock and dismay about the results of the first round of the French parliamentary elections held last weekend on the part of most liberal observers of European politics is palpable. Read more

Has Israel’s security apparatus learned nothing from Oct. 7?

If Mohammed Abu Salmiya hadn’t filmed a couple of hate-filled videos upon his triumphant return to Gaza on Monday morning, the Shifa Hospital director’s release from Israeli incarceration would have remained under the radar. Read more

Mural from Old Czestochowa Synagogue

The MHM’s new permanent exhibition, Everybody Had a Name, features an artistic reimagining of the elaborate ceiling mural from the Old Czestochowa Synagogue in Poland. Read more

A chance to hear Josh Frydenberg

Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s documentary on Sky, “Never Again,” was watched across Australia. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Lillian Roxon – foreign correspondent rock journalist and author – best known for the first Rock Encyclopaedia Read more

Time Trump focused on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

A free-flowing and spirited Presidential Debate descended into virtual silence when President Trump surprisingly blew the opportunity to clearly differentiate his policy from President Biden’s long-standing policy supporting the creation of an independent Palestinian state [also known as the “two state solution” – ed] . Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Debate Stakes Read more

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

It is amazing how many times we encounter a connection with New Zealand. Read more

The driver of Western Jew-hatred

Jew-hatred in the Diaspora is out of control and escalating. Read more

Shlomo Ben Yosef (1913-1937)

Once again, we find ourselves torn between negotiation or warfare. Read more

Myopia

An affliction is running rampant and has developed an uncanny resistance to any sort of countermeasures. Read more

Shabbat Shelach Lecha – Mental Fortitude

The reading this week is mainly concerned with the 12 men sent by Moses to tour the land of Israel prior to the invasion. Read more

Allegra meets Nova survivors

Wentworth Independent MP, Allegra Spender met with Remo, Mazal and Millet, three survivors of the October 7 attack on the Nova Music Festival. Read more

« Previous Page — Next Page »