Note the hypocrisy

The world’s glaring hypocrisy is on full display as Ramadan terror strikes once again. Read more

‘Storm over ultra-Orthodox recruitment won’t topple Netanyahu’

The issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) army enlistment reached a boiling point this week as the Netanyahu government failed, despite feverish efforts, to draft legislation to address the issue before a High Court-mandated Wednesday deadline. Read more

We have ten double passes for “Golda” to give away

Thanks to Transmission Films, we have ten (10) double passes to give away to GOLDA a film starring Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin and Liev Schreiber. GOLDA opens nationally in cinemas on May 2. Read more

Into the Fray: Elections: Why now is not the time

When Israeli voters next go to the polls over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumour, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion. Read more

Shabbat Tzav Para: Humans First

We continue reading this week about the sacrifices. This is a controversial issue that challenges us to this day. Read more

Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA

Cirque du Soleil reviewed by Alex First Read more

Chicago

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7

In a no-holds-barred interview, former U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom that he supports Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and that he would have responded to the Oct. 7 attack in a very similar way. Read more

Need money to complete a short film project?

Applications close for the JIFF Short Film Fund Monday 1 April. Read more

West Side Story – reviewed by Shirley Politzer

What makes a good night at the theatre?- a story that resonates, vibrancy, colour, emotion, great music, talented musicians and choreography, purposeful lighting, clear sound, the list goes on. Read more

Zombie! The Musical

A Sydney theatre review by Alex First Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Montreal Purim ShpieLibel 2024 Read more

Israel tags Guterres and UN as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel

Israel’s patience with the United Nations (UN) has finally, and justifiably, exploded with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling out the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN and its agencies as being both antisemitic and anti-Israel.  Read more

The Great Divide

A Sydney theatre review by Alex First

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The Russian dictator’s double terrorism standards

Following Friday’s massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the outskirts of Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a video address to his nation. The slaying of “dozens of peaceful, innocent people … including children, teenagers and women,” he said, was a “bloody, barbaric, terrorist act.” Read more

Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim

Perhaps the best news I’ve heard out of Israel in recent months concerned the renaming of a holiday pastry. Read more

War is hell. Everywhere.

“War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” Read more

Blinken’s Rafah blunder

In a press conference on Thursday in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated his opposition to an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, saying that such a move would be a “mistake.” Read more

Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer believes the Palestinian people “want what any other people want: peace, security and prosperity.” Read more

On the other hand

Who would have believed this? The UN world happiness report for 2024 has just been issued and Israel appears as the fifth happiest. Read more

The American betrayal of Israel

As some of us have long feared, and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defence against a malevolent foe. Read more

Dry Bones

How dare we … Read more

Self Defence

Elliot Horowitz’s overview of Purim over the ages, Reckless Rites and the Legacy of Jewish Violence, has a subtext. It is a quote from the English poet W.H. Auden: “ Those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return.” Read more

From Shushan to Tehran

Haman of Shushan and Khomeini and Raisi of Tehran are comrades in arms bound together with the same evil agenda. Read more

Wicked Little Letters

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Vayikra & Zachor: Amalek

The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor the Shabbat to Remember. Read more

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A Melbourne ballet review by Alex First Read more

From Australia’s past: Isaac Nachman Steinberg

Isaac Nachman Steinberg –  never-tiring political thinker, activist, and realist Read more

JNF takes Holocaust survivors to see Israel’s spring flowers

Over 4,100 Holocaust survivors have embarked on blossom tours across Israel, organised by the KKL-JNF Foundation since the beginning of March. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The Court Jewster Read more

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