Anatomy of a Fall
January 29, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First
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Feintooner
January 29, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…CasaUNRWA. Read more
New Zealand must stop funding hate
Like-minded democracies have said they will freeze funding to the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) after evidence that UNRWA employees participated in the October 07 Hamas-led massacre of Israelis. Read more
A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organisations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. Read more
Dry Bones: Hamas and the Palestinian Authority share the same goal
January 28, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
Today’s cartoon from Dry Bones. Read more
On the other hand
January 28, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
When was the last time you received an unsolicited gift from a stranger on public transport? Read more
The Inheritance Parts I and II
January 28, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
The Israeli military’s systematic approach to dismantling Hamas
January 26, 2024 by Yaakov Lappin
On the eve of the war, Hamas possessed an estimated 30,000 armed terrorists, divided into five territorial brigades and 24 battalions across the Gaza Strip. Read more
Shabbat Beshalach: Ancient events modern lessons
January 26, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
When Moshe led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, they headed due east. Read more
Letter from America: Now they are getting in my face
January 26, 2024 by Bruce S. Ticker
In my neighbourhood in Philadelphia, in my haven away from obnoxious, law-breaking pro-Hamas activists, a billboard sponsored by an Arab/Muslim group emerges ahead for motorists travelling south on Bustleton Avenue that posted the words, in black print, “Don’t stop talking about…” followed below in blood-red larger print: “PALESTINE.” Read more
Seventeen
January 26, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Fatal Amnesia
January 26, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
There are many contagious diseases to which humanity can succumb. Read more
How Kabbalah changed Judaism
January 25, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
There has always been a strong mystical strain of Judaism, going as far back as the prophet Elijah and the chariot that took him up to heaven. Read more
Henry Greener chats with Yossi Goldfarb
January 25, 2024 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Yossi Goldfarb talks about Current Affairs relating to the ongoing Gaza War and how it affects our community and his position as President of Zionism Victoria. Read more
Hamas is weakening, but the campaign against it will be lengthy
January 24, 2024 by Yaakov Lappin
While the Israel Defence Forces is gaining ground against Hamas by the day, destroying it as a military force will take time, according to former IDF officers. Read more
Malevo
January 24, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne entertainment review by Alex First Read more
Dry Bones: With allies like these …
January 24, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
An Israeli twist on the age-old adage, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” Read more
Feintooner
January 22, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon…Two-State Haste makes Waste. Read more
Biden opens UN door to Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution
January 22, 2024 by David Singer
President Biden has seemingly indicated that he is now prepared to consider backing the normalisation of relationships between Israel and Saudi Arabia – if both acknowledge they favour implementing any solution – other than Biden’s preferred two-state solution – to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more
The Iron Claw
January 21, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Israel has repeatedly been mugged by reality
January 21, 2024 by Ron Weiser
At its core, Zionism is all about Jewish self-determination. Read more
On the other hand
January 20, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
“The avocados have arrived.” Read more
Priscilla
January 19, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
World In Crisis
January 19, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
According to Bartelby in the Economist last week, we are heading towards a global disaster. Read more
The West’s lethal error in the war against Israel
January 19, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza. Read more
From Paris to The Hague
January 19, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
“From Paris to the Hague sees the return of the same old plague.” Read more
Dry Bones: Here’s the beef!
January 18, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
Israeli “cultivated beef” technology enables the production of steaks and burgers without slaughtering animals and just received government approval for sale to the public. Read more
Shabbat Bo: Lessons from the Exodus
January 18, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
There are two themes amongst the many in this week’s Torah that stand out as being particularly relevant at this moment in time. Read more
All the Rest
January 18, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Genocide allegations against Israel endanger Jews everywhere
January 17, 2024 by Rabbi Warren Goldstein
The South African government’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on grotesquely false allegations of genocide against Israel needs to be seen for what it is: A defamatory lie that not only threatens the Jewish state but stigmatises and endangers Jews throughout the Diaspora. Read more







