Mamdani’s anti-Israel obsession is key to his rise
October 19, 2025 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
With less than three weeks until Election Day in New York City, it’s clear that the hopes for preventing the election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor are dwindling. Read more
Hamas isn’t listening to your threats, Mr. President
October 17, 2025 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Returning to Washington after his triumphant visit to Jerusalem to address the Knesset and to help welcome home the remaining hostages he helped free from Hamas in Gaza, President Donald Trump said something important. Read more
Sir Frank Lowy reflects on antisemitism
October 17, 2025 by Michael Stutchbury
Last weekend, I was honoured to catch up again with Frank Lowy, surely Australia’s most successful 20th-century immigrant. Read more
The Secret of Secrets
October 17, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
Dan Brown and Jewish mysticism Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
L’Chaim to Life: podcast
October 16, 2025 by Features Desk
Melanie Greenfeld – Australians against antisemitism are fighting a crisis of ignorance Read more
Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan takes one giant step forward for mankind
October 13, 2025 by David Singer
President Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza has taken one giant step forward for mankind following Israel and Hamas signing a document headed: Implementation Steps for President Trump’s proposal for a “Comprehensive End of Gaza War” (See document below) Read more
Open season against the Jews
September 19, 2025 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
All bets are off. Clearly, there’s no limit to the world’s attempt to defame, delegitimise and destroy Israel, signalling through this incitement an implicit but unmistakable indication that it’s now open season on Jews wherever they are. Read more
Something is rotten in the states of Europe
September 19, 2025 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
The atmosphere in Europe is rotten. You can smell it in the expulsions at the Polytechnic University of Turin, in the beatings of Jewish students in Pisa, in assaults on tourists, in the closures of sports and cultural spaces, in protests and strikes framed as being in “solidarity” with Gaza. Read more
Fulfilling the promise
September 19, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
The Shabbat Torah portions which we read prior to Rosh Hashanah contain the farewell messages of Moshe to the Israelites as they stand ready to take possession of and settle the Promised Land. Read more
Here You Come Again
September 19, 2025 by Shirley Politzer
A Sydney musical review by Shirley Politzer Read more
L’Chaim to Life
September 18, 2025 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Ron Weiser, one of the organisers of the first Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism, held recently on the Gold Coast. Read more
Job
September 18, 2025 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
From Qatar to the Gold Coast
Qatar is a small country with a tiny population of less than 400,000 citizens, but with immense wealth and an ideology that drives it. Read more
Israel chooses survival over surrender
September 17, 2025 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar put it bluntly: “Israel will not let the armed jihadists of Hamas be 1 mile from our children’s beds.” Read more
Why Lebanon and the Arab world still deny Palestinians citizenship
September 17, 2025 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Lebanon has once again reiterated its position: Palestinian refugees will not be granted citizenship. Read more
Deborah Conway faces down antisemitism through Songs of Strength
September 16, 2025 by Rob Klein
While facing increasing discrimination, Deborah Conway is looking forward to performing at this month’s “Shir: Songs of Strength” concerts.
A ‘Nakba’ in Times reporting
September 16, 2025 by Bruce S. Ticker
From Australia’s Jewish past
Edna Luber-Smith – active and enthusiastic community stalwart Read more
On the other hand
September 15, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
The Land of Milk and Honey is preparing for another Rosh Hashanah. Read more
Two plans, one standard: why the islamophobia report must be judged against the antisemitism plan
September 15, 2025 by Michael Gencher
In the space of just a few months, Australians have been handed two national reports on hate: one on antisemitism by Jillian Segal, and one on Islamophobia by Aftab Malik. Read more
Trump can reverse Obama & Biden sell-out of Jewish People to UN
September 15, 2025 by David Singer
President Trump is facing a deadline of 22 September – the date the United Nations General Assembly convenes to recognise a fictitious and non-existent State of Palestine – to reverse the sell-out of the Jewish People to the United Nations Security Council by Trump’s predecessors President Obama and President Biden. Read more
Carmel Reunion
September 12, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
I have just returned from a very moving and memorable reunion of pupils of the Jewish Boarding school Carmel College my father founded in 1948 until it closed in 1997. Read more
The 39 Steps
September 12, 2025 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
A shocking watershed for America
September 12, 2025 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The murder of the young conservative activist Charlie Kirk wasn’t just a horrifying crime. Read more
Selective morality
September 12, 2025 by Michael Kuttner
Israel currently faces an international firestorm of conscious hypocrisy and moral blindness wrapped in a veneer of mass myopia. Read more
America’s unreliable Middle East ‘ally’ is Qatar, not Israel
September 11, 2025 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
The anger from the international community, as well as the Muslim and Arab world, about Israel’s airstrike on members of the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar, was matched only by the outrage coming from the American foreign-policy establishment. Read more
Abraham: the First Jew
September 11, 2025 by Anne Sarzin
Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more
Shabbat Ki Tavo
September 11, 2025 by Jeremy Rosen
Mount Ebal Read more
Landmark Jewish music event ‘Songs of Strength’ set to unite community
September 10, 2025 by Rob Klein
Following the success of the ‘Songs of Hope’ concert in Sydney last year, ‘Songs of Strength’ will also be staged in Melbourne this September, bringing the biggest night of Jewish music in years to Melbourne.
Israel shatters Hamas’s Doha sanctuary
September 10, 2025 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
In one dramatic strike, Israel has upended the rules of the game. Read more







