L’Chaim to Life: Senator Jacqui Lambie – Terrorists don’t care; so smarten up Australia

Maurice Klein speaks with Senator Jacqui Lambie, the Independent Senator for Tasmania, who does not hold back in calling out terrorism and the rising level of hateful antisemitism in Australia. Read more

Behind the headlines

Media headlines about the current campaign to deal with Hamas generally fail to convey the human dramas involved…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Lalla Miranda – a forgotten brilliant soprano

Lalla was born in Melbourne in 1874 and grew up in a house named ‘Natal House’ after her parents had visited South Africa before settling in Fitzroy. Read more

‘Shadows of Children’: Israel’s youngest hostages face long journey to recovery

Is it OK to eat? Can we look out the window? Is it alright to leave the room? Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine offers Gazans hope post-war

The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) is shaping up as the only solution capable of providing the besieged population of Gaza with a better future after the Israel-Gaza war ends. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Gaza Fatah Fatwah Read more

Any problem for a Jew wishing a Christian “Merry Xmas”?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

On the other hand

Israel has always been known as the country where volunteering is of prime importance. Read more

Wrath of God II: To win, Israel must assassinate Hamas leaders everywhere

Israel’s military achievements against Hamas are impressive. As part of its campaign to destroy the terrorist group, Israel has reportedly struck over 22,000 targets in the Gaza Strip and has killed some 7,000 fighters since the war broke out. Read more

Israel sets sights on Hamas ‘Royalty’ living abroad

Hamas’s leadership openly embraces its lavish lifestyle, staying at five-star hotels in Qatar and Turkey and flying internationally on private jets, even as Palestinians in Gaza fight over humanitarian aid in the terrorist-ruled enclave. Read more

Wonka – a movie review by Alex First

The newest generation was not brought up on Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka, dating back 52 and 18 years, respectively. Read more

The persistent ‘two-state’ delusion

The simmering tensions between Israel and the Biden administration over the plan for post-war Gaza have now come to a boil. Read more

The wrong university presidents at the wrong time

The forced resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania is a good first step in dealing with a far more pervasive problem in higher education. Read more

Neturei Karta

At demonstrations against Israel in New York, marching with our enemies (as they do at Israel parades) was a small pathetic clique of Chassidim in their distinctive uniforms called Neturei Karta, literally The Protectors of the City in Aramaic. Read more

How dare you

Instead of pleading with ignorant, ill-informed and inflamed haters to moderate their language, we should be exposing and challenging them every time they open their mouths. Read more

Holocaust Survivors and 7 October 2023

In the words of the great man, Elie Wiesel, our first spokesman from the camps: “In 1945, on the ruins of Europe, on the ruins of theologies and philosophies, on the ruins of all societies and all ideals that existed before, there was nonetheless a kind of hope that surfaced in us. Read more

‘She worried about us more than she did for herself’

“My 18-year-old daughter Tchelet was killed on a Saturday morning during the holiday of Simchat Torah,” Gladys Fishbein told the Tazpit Press Service. Read more

Shabbat Mikeytz: End of Days

This week’s Torah reading starts when Joseph had been in jail for a crime he had not committed. Read more

Flouting the law should not free ‘Palestine’ defenders of consequences

Even harsh critics of U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik were stunned when she trumped “legal scholar” and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill over university policies that can translate into routine criminal laws. Read more

One Life: double passes to win

ONE LIFE tells the inspiring true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, played by Academy-Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins, whose unsung endeavours on the eve of World War II saved more than 600 children from their doom at the hands of the Nazis. Read more

Leigh takes Wagner into the 21st century

Two years after the wall dividing West and East Germany was destroyed, 21-year-old Leigh Haas farewelled her family in her native Glasgow to live in the burgeoning creative city of Berlin. Read more

A Very Naughty Christmas

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage

I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. Read more

Dry Bones: Happy Chanukah

The holiday in 2023 seems more meaningful. Read more

Dry Bones: Season’s greetings

Will the wave of antisemitism be confronted in 2024? Read more

How many light are kindled during Chanukah?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Security Council rebuffs Guterres bid to fix his Gaza mistakes

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has failed in his bid to get the Security Council to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza that would have helped paper over some appalling decisions by Guterres both before and after October 7. Read more

Dry Bones: The Miracle

We are celebrating our Festival of Freedom as we fight a war for our survival. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Rabbi James Kennard – Reflecting on 17 years at Melbourne’s Mount Scopus Memorial College

Morry Frenkel speaks with Rabbi James Kennard, Principal of Melbourne’s Mount Scopus Memorial College, about his 17 years in that position, the changes in education over time and the challenges that technology – particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) – bring for educators. Read more

On the other hand

In the year 165 BCE, the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated after its liberation and cleansing by the Maccabees. Read more

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