Despicable Me 4
June 20, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Beha’alotecha – A Just War
June 20, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
Amongst the many topics in this week’s Torah reading is the seemingly incidental one of the two silver trumpets. Read more
Terezin Memorial director’s connection to Holocaust is deeply personal
June 19, 2024 by Etgar Lefkovitz - JNS
The two teenage Jewish girls from the former Czechoslovakia lived just 60 miles apart in 1942, but in totally different worlds, the one speaking German and the other Czech. Read more
Time to unmask the pro-Hamas thugs
June 18, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Americans have seen this movie before. Politically motivated masked thugs who gather to intimidate, silence and sometimes inflict violence on the objects of their hate are nothing new in this country. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
June 18, 2024 by Features Desk
Rabbi Lazarus Morris Goldman – his whole soul was dedicated to life in Australia – an achiever and most dedicated human being Read more
Iran’s fingerprints on Oct. 7 massacre ‘well-documented’
June 17, 2024 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
When thousands of Hamas-led terrorists murdered some 1,200 Israeli men, women and children on Oct. 7 and kidnapped hundreds of others, it further exposed how Iran supported and funded Hamas and continues to foment regional unrest. Read more
The UN’s bankrupt persecution of Israel
June 17, 2024 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
The U.N.’s persecution of Israel continues apace. Last week, a U.N. commission endorsed the usual slanders about supposed Israeli “crimes against humanity” and genocide. Read more
Biden & UN Security Council ignore HKOPS – opening gates to hell
June 17, 2024 by David Singer
President Biden and the UN Security Council have combined to threaten Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Gaza and the West Bank, turning into one giant killing field. Read more
Feintooner
June 17, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Bridging the Israel-Hamas gaps Read more
Responding to Hezbollah’s strategic offensive
June 16, 2024 by Caroline Glick - JNS
Hezbollah is burning a swathe through northern Israel. The nature reserves, grazing land, fields and orchards are burning to the ground. Military bases, including several strategic assets, are incurring major damage. More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed. Businesses are bankrupt. Read more
How António Guterres betrayed the Jews
June 16, 2024 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
Back in February, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a speech at the Ohel Jakob synagogue in Munich in which he struck most of the right notes. Read more
On the other hand
June 16, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Celebrating Shavuot in Israel makes one realize what this festival is really all about. Read more
The Woman in Black
June 15, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
The looming choice for Diaspora Jews
June 14, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Is it time for the Jews of Britain, Europe and America to leave? Read more
The Music of John Williams: a music review by Alan Slade
June 14, 2024 by Alan Slade
“The Music of John Williams – Iconic Film Scores Live in Concert” played to a capacity audience in the Concert Hall of Sydney’s iconic Opera House on opening night, June 13, featuring 80 members of the SSO and 120 singers of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs conducted by Nicholas Buc. Read more
Knee-jerk script
June 14, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Whenever Israel acts to counter terror, you can confidently predict the pre-ordained reactions. Read more
The Sitting Duck
June 13, 2024 by Alex First
A political thriller concerning a trade union official and whistleblower who wasn’t believed after a violent personal attack, The Sitting Duck, is based on fact. Read more
Inside Out 2
June 13, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
The Exorcism
June 13, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Daniel Kitson Collaborator
June 13, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Waiting for War in Haifa
June 11, 2024 by Gidon Ben-Zvi
Metula. Shlomi. Kiriyat Shmona. Margaliot. These were small, quaint towns before October 7, 2023. Read more
Dry Bones: Shavuot
June 11, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
The birth of the Jewish nation … Read more
Biden and UN wake up: Time you backed Israel to vanquish Hamas
June 11, 2024 by David Singer
President Biden and the United Nations continue to call on the Hamas Government in Gaza to accept a ceasefire – whilst Hamas’s tactics are to prolong the Israel-Gaza war, isolate Israel internationally and spark worldwide calls for Israel’s elimination following Hamas’s heinous blood-letting invasion of Israel on 7 October 2023. Read more
“No Innocent Civilians,” a former Gaza man’s dire warning to the world
June 11, 2024 by Sveta Listratov
In a deeply personal interview, former Khan Yunis resident Dor Shachar, who escaped from his home and converted to Judaism over two decades ago, sheds light on the deeply ingrained culture of hatred and violence in Gaza. Read more
Feintooner
June 11, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: From Alahambra to Gaza. Ole’! Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Fickle Feckless France- Egalite, fraternite …antisemitisme
June 9, 2024 by Martin Sherman
The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC—both equally risible and ridiculous. Read more
Dry Bones: Good news
June 9, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
A turning point? Read more
On the other hand
June 9, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Fifty-seven years ago, the illegal Jordanian occupation of half of Israel’s Capital came to an end. Read more
The Middle East’s fateful moment
June 7, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
If people think the war in Gaza is intolerable, they should buckle up for what may now be coming. Read more
The Evolution of Shavuot
June 7, 2024 by J-Wire
Shavuot, more than any other festival, illustrates the ongoing way in which a Biblical festival and, indeed, many Biblical laws have evolved in unusual, unpredictable ways. It reinforces the reality (much disputed) that Jewish Law and custom are constantly renewing, evolving and changing. Read more
