Feitooner

This week’s cartoon: O say can you sea? Read more

Biden: Forget Friedman & United Nations – focus on HKOPS

New York Times Foreign Affairs Opinion Columnist –Thomas Friedman – has offered President Biden some appalling advice in his latest op-ed. Read more

What do the Palestinians want?

What do the Palestinians want? Read more

Is Britain going wobbly on Israel?

After the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out in emotional support of Israel, stating that it had “an absolute right to defend itself.” Read more

On the other hand

Israel and Jew haters on every continent continue to display their vicious venom. Read more

A Very Jewish Christmas Carol (MTC)

A MTC theatre review by Alex First Read more

Saltburn

A movie review by Alex First Read more

The Don Pacifico Affair

As diplomats shuttle to and from the Middle East and countries threaten each other, the USA has sent its navy to the Mediterranean. It is worth going back to look at the Don Pacifico Affair 176 years ago. Read more

Disconnected

Eliminating those who plot and carry out acts of terror against Israelis and Jews inevitably brings out a myriad collection of closet haters. Read more

Shabbat Toldot: Esau or Ishmael

Last week, we read about how Isaac and Ishmael came together to bury their father. And in fact, they lived together at the same place, Be’er Lechai Roi. Their coming together seems to have been complete. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Michael Gawenda

Morry Frenkel speaks with Michael Gawenda, about his recent book “My Life as a Jew”. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Gaza – A gigantic shift in the Overton window

What once was unthinkable is now moving to the centre of mainstream thought. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Albert Asher Wolff, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia

Albert Wolff was born on 30 April 1899 in Geraldton, WA, and registered as Asher Albert. Read more

Dry Bones: We are not alone

A nice piece of good news… Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Who’s fueling who? Read more

Any problem in holding concerts in a Shule?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Dogfight (Theatrical)

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

I’m not signing Australian lawyers’ open letter concerning Gaza

1012 Australian barristers, lawyers and legal academics have so far signed a nine-page letter – including 89 footnotes (Australian Letter) – requesting Australia use its influence to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank – which I won’t be signing. Read more

On the other hand

Lost in the fog of disinformation spread by most of the media is the reality that Jews are not the only targets of Islamic terror. Read more

Alan Dershowitz: Today’s Nazis are Hamas

Among the groups that have supported the rapes, beheadings, burning alive, mass murder and kidnappings of Jews by Hamas have been some that purport to speak for gays, Jews, feminists and progressives. If any of these groups were actually to travel to Gaza, they would be murdered by Hamas. Read more

Dry Bones: Selling hostages

A “Sophie’s Choice” is one between equally bad options. Read more

Unimaginable pain

The unimaginable pain on seeing the evidence of children tortured, limbs cut off and burnt to death, screams for an explanation. Why did God let this happen? Read more

Connect the dots

Connecting the dots is as easy as putting various facts and clues together in order to see the whole picture or to understand something globally. Read more

Shabbat Chayey Sarah: Mind Your Language

The reading from the Torah this week starts off with Avraham burying Sarah his wife in “The Cave of Machpelah” which he buys from the Hittites who were living there at that time. Read more

Never again is now: Why Jews must take back the Holocaust

As Jewish communities gather to mark Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), the 1938 pogrom across Nazi Germany that many consider to be the start of the Holocaust, ‘never again’ is resounding. Read more

The World and Israel

It is clear that a picture is worth a thousand words. Unless the world media show the photos and videos of the horror of the terrorist atrocities that took place on October 7 in the South Israel area and not just write about it, Israel will have no hope of ever overcoming the propaganda war unleashed upon it. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Otto Frankel – world-renowned geneticist, plant breeder, cytologist and genetic conservationist

Otto Herzberg-Frankel was born in Vienna on 4 November 1900, the third of four sons of a prominent and wealthy lawyer and his wife Therese. Read more

Orlando: A New Musical

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Why are Jews supposed to pray three times a day?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Rising Antisemitism and soaring Factophobia Read more

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