Open season against the Jews

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

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

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

A Sydney musical review by Shirley Politzer Read more

L’Chaim to Life

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

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

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

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

While facing increasing discrimination, Deborah Conway is looking forward to performing at this month’s “Shir: Songs of Strength” concerts.

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A ‘Nakba’ in Times reporting

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Edna Luber-Smith – active and enthusiastic community stalwart Read more

On the other hand

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

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

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

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

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

A shocking watershed for America

The murder of the young conservative activist Charlie Kirk wasn’t just a horrifying crime. Read more

Selective morality

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

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

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Shabbat Ki Tavo

Mount Ebal Read more

Landmark Jewish music event ‘Songs of Strength’ set to unite community

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.

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Israel shatters Hamas’s Doha sanctuary

In one dramatic strike, Israel has upended the rules of the game. Read more

Which council offers wise counsel?

“Are you the Judean People’s Front?” Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Werner Felix Baer – musician, composer, and broadcaster
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Sorry, Baby

A  movie review by Alex First Read more

Israeli & Saudi solutions can resolve Judea & Samaria claims

A new solution to end Jewish and Arab claims to sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) has emerged this past week: Israel will annex 82% under a plan proposed by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich with the remaining 18% becoming exclaves of Jordan as predicated in the 2022 Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution authored by Ali Shihabi – an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (Smotrich-Shihabi solution) Read more

Giveaways: Went up the Hill

Thanks to Vendetta Films, we have five double passes to give away to Went Up The Hill, a film starring Vicky Krieps and Dacre Montgomery, opening in selected cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne on August 28. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The International Association of Genocidal Scholars Read more

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