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

Betrayal, lies, politics and grief

Seven years have passed since criminal charges were brought in Washington, D.C., against the woman who murdered my sunny, lovely, empathetic 15-year-old daughter Malki. The anniversary of the charges being made public was on March 14…writes Arnold Roth. Read more

On the other hand

For the second time in two months, we have had an “only in Israel” experience while travelling on the train. Read more

Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius at The Lume, inside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Has there ever been a creative intellect greater than Leonardo da Vinci? I dare say that question could spark animated discussion. Read more

Biden must get Security Council to rescind Resolution 2334

President Biden can stem the outbreak of Jew-hatred worldwide by convincing the Security Council to rescind Resolution 2334 adopted on 23 December 2016 – only after the Obama-Biden administration failed to veto its passage. Read more

Swansong

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Love Lies Bleeding

A movie review by Alex First Read more

The West’s abandonment of the Jews

With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Read more

From The River Thames to Sydney Harbour – Hatred

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Broadway bound via Opera Australia

Doron Chester has plans to head to Broadway, but before that, the ex-Moriah student will perform in Opera Australia’s production of West Side Story on Sydney Harbour. Read more

Ring of fire

This tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes has the potential to cause lethal upheavals at any given moment. Read more

Why Purim matters

Purim matters so much this year. It tells a never-ending story. We were threatened with destruction. We responded by finding ways to combat the threat.  We did not capitulate. We called out evil as it was. Read more

Dry Bones: Confession

Today’s cartoon: Mr. Shuldig tells a bitter joke! Read more

The problem in Gaza is Hamas, not how to provide aid

After months of pressure from left-wing critics and liberal media outlets that seem to only highlight the suffering of Palestinians since Hamas started a war on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden felt he had to respond with something big. Read more

Shabbat Pekudey: The Messiah

As we come to the end of the book of Exodus and look back at the structure of the book it contains three elements. Read more

Hamas’ strategy is working.

I was really hoping that on International Women’s Day recently, some of the good friends of our community would use the opportunity, notwithstanding their position on UNRWA, to condemn the rape and sexual mutilation of young and old, that took place on 7 October and which continues to be used as a weapon of humiliation and intimidation and dehumanisation, on those held hostage by Hamas. Read more

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