Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…Elite degrees of lower education. Read more

Israel: UN chief’s tenure ‘danger to world peace’

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday accused U.N. chief Antonio Guterres of supporting Hamas and called his tenure a global threat. Read more

About miracles

I am wary of miracles. Not that amazing, unpredictable, and seemingly miraculous things do not happen all the time. Read more

Henry Greener presents The NO EXCUSE for Sexual Violence Vigil on video

The NO EXCUSE for Sexual Violence Vigil at Hopetoun Gardens was an emotional gathering dedicated especially to raising awareness of the shocking, brutal treatment of women by horrific Hamas terrorists on October 7th. Read more

Uphill battles

Israel’s fight against Islamic terror is being fought on two main fronts. Read more

The Long Pigs

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Vayeyshev: The female condition

This week, we have another narrative of a sexual nature concerning Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Jacob’s son Judah, the future leader of the Children of  Israel (Genesis Chapter 38). Read more

Dry Bones: Passing the torch

Living in historic times… Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sara Levi – renowned flower and landscape artist

Sara Levi was an Australian artist who was born in 1870. She was a flower and landscape painter. Read more

The Miracle of Chanukah

Chanukah is colourful, exciting and popular, ranking with Purim in carnival spirit. Every type of talent is part of the festival: art, music, drama, cookery. The games are absorbing. Read more

Kibbutz Nahal Oz

On October 7th, dozens of terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Nahal Oz from the northern Gaza Strip. Read more

Arab-Islamic Committee & UN ignore HKOPS path to peace

The Ministerial Committee appointed at the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit on 11 November missed a golden opportunity to advance an end to the Jewish-Arab conflict when they met with United Nations Secretary-General – Mr. António Guterres – on 29 November. Read more

Kinky Boots

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

This week the US House of Representatives passed a resolution affirming Israel’s right to exist. Read more

Henry meets an Oct 7 survivor

Henry Greener chats with Eilon Kotler, a survivor of the October 7 massacre at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Read more

A Christmas Carol

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Elegy for New York

I made the mistake, once, of thinking New York was the best place for Jews outside Israel. Read more

The devastating Hamas weapon of war

Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media. Read more

Hamas also slaughters Muslims

The Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on Oct. 7 did not kill only Jews. The terrorists also murdered and kidnapped scores of Muslim Israelis, including members of the Bedouin community. The terrorists’ murder spree made zero distinction between young and old, Muslim and Jew. Read more

Incredibly asinine and crass

The longer it takes to finish off Hamas, the greater the opportunity for all and sundry to weigh in with gratuitous advice and demands. Read more

The loss of life in Israel and Gaza is heartbreaking

As a woman, I am sickened by the abduction and murder of babies and the use of rape and kidnapping of women and girls in the brutal attack by Hamas on the 7th of October – a heartbreaking and unfathomable day on which Hamas violently took 240 innocent hostages, a condemned terrorist organisation, and a devastating day on which the Jewish people experienced the greatest loss of life since the Holocaust.   Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Alexander Downer

Maurice Klein speaks with Alexander Downer, an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018. Read more

Shabbat Vayishlach: Rape

The horror of rape has existed since the earliest of times, and particularly during periods of war, units of depraved men have exercised rape as a reward for conquest or a means of humiliation. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Andrew, Anne de Metz, and daughters – owners and educators of the first seminary for young ladies to the first Jewish day school in Sydney

Andrew was born in 1771, having grown up in London, where he worked as a stockbroking agent. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Getting one’s Irish up. Read more

Biden recklessly pursues Friedman’s failed two-state solution

President Biden’s thinking continues to be extraordinarily influenced by New York Times (NYT) Foreign Affairs Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman. Read more

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

To 120!!! What does it mean?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Chase (A Daylight Connection*)

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

Who will live, and who will die. Read more

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