From Australia’s Jewish Past: Marcus Brasch – founder of the famous Brashs music stores

Marcus Brasch, brother of Lena and Woolf, was born in Germany and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1848. Read more

Beware the Political Generals

Compounding the hostage tragedy in Israel today are the thousands of Leftist citizens actively participating in demonstrations, agitating for the political purpose of bringing down Prime Minister Netanyahu. Read more

Eytan meets the donor whose blood saved his life

Eytan Tesler, an IDF fighter, was critically wounded by an RPG missile while fighting in Beit Hanoun. Eitan lost a large volume of blood and suffered serious and life-threatening injuries. Read more

ICJ: blanket media coverage – Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Nil

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on emergency measures requested by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel has rightly received blanket media coverage – whilst the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) continues to receive virtually no media attention – notwithstanding its implementation could have avoided: Read more

Anatomy of a Fall

A movie review by Alex First
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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

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

Today’s cartoon from Dry Bones. Read more

On the other hand

When was the last time you received an unsolicited gift from a stranger on public transport? Read more

The Inheritance Parts I and II

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

The Israeli military’s systematic approach to dismantling Hamas

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

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

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

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Fatal Amnesia

There are many contagious diseases to which humanity can succumb. Read more

How Kabbalah changed Judaism

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

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

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

A Melbourne entertainment review by Alex First Read more

Dry Bones: With allies like these …

An Israeli twist on the age-old adage, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Two-State Haste makes Waste. Read more

Biden opens UN door to Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

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

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Israel has repeatedly been mugged by reality

At its core, Zionism is all about Jewish self-determination. Read more

On the other hand

“The avocados have arrived.” Read more

Priscilla

A movie review by Alex First Read more

World In Crisis

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

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

“From Paris to the Hague sees the return of the same old plague.” Read more

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