Arnold Roth’s long journey for justice

Twenty-four years after his 15-year-old daughter, Malki, was murdered in a Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Arnold Roth is asking a question that remains unanswered: Why is the terrorist responsible for her death living freely as a celebrity in Jordan? Read more

On the other hand

The outgoing civil year of 2025 was a “booming” year for Israelis as the war against Hamas, Iran and its proxies affected the whole country. Read more

A surprising champion of the Mitzvah campaign

We all know Chanukah is the story of light over darkness, of what is right over what is wrong. Read more

Netanyahu on trial: Case 4000 unravels as witness exposes alleged suppression of exculpatory evidence

Case 4000—the most serious and consequential of the criminal cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—has long been portrayed by prosecutors as the centrepiece of their corruption allegations. Read more

‘Speaking up is a matter of survival’: Canadian model confronts online antisemitism

Canadian-Slovakian model Miriam Mattova is intensifying her public advocacy to hold social media platforms accountable for online hate, saying unchecked anonymity has helped normalise antisemitic threats and allowed violent rhetoric to flourish without consequences. Read more

The Sydney Chapter of Nice Jewish Runners hits the ground running

On a drizzly Boxing Day morning, 140 Sydney Jewish Runners of all ages met to launch the Sydney Chapter of Nice Jewish Runners. Read more

A minor fast

Perhaps the least important notable date in the Jewish calendar is the Tenth of Tevet , which occurs ten days after Chanukah. Read more

Seasonal allergies

Certain seasons precipitate allergic attacks and cause misery for those afflicted. Read more

The Housemaid

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Rental Family

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Scientists engineer bacteria to manufacture drugs inside human body

The team from Technion’s Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering has engineered harmless bacteria to produce therapeutic compounds directly inside patients, eliminating traditional manufacturing and distribution chains. Read more

The Bondi Beach massacre must be a turning point for Australia

Only days ago, on the first night of Chanukah, at least fifteen innocent people were murdered in cold blood on Bondi Beach during a festive family-oriented lighting ceremony. Read more

Shabbat Vayigash

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Mamdani’s team of Jew-haters will change New York

The most important thing about the Anti-Defamation League’s latest “Mamdani Monitor” is that its results were so unsurprising and generated few headlines in New York or anywhere else. Read more

JCA launches emergency relief appeal – Bondi Beach terror attack

The Jewish Communal Appeal has announced an emergency funding response following the terror attack targeting the Jewish community at Bondi Beach on Sunday 14 December, describing the move as unprecedented in the organisation’s history.

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Abundance: How we build a better future

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Benjamin Isaacs – an extremely idealistic figure of Australasian press history Read more

Who’s afraid of Bondi Beach’s Matilda?

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Albanese and Wong helped fuel Jew-hatred in Australia

Australia’s Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong’s joint statement on 11 August 2025 (Joint Statement) to “recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September, to contribute to international momentum towards a two-state solution…” was based on a false statement of fact that had been underpinning Australia’s policy position for 11 months. Read more

The global intifada

How many wake-up calls does anyone need? The cliché that the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre was just that is singularly inappropriate. Read more

On the other hand

Who could ever have believed that one day Israel might provide Germany with a state of the art missile defence system? Read more

What can be said that hasn’t already been said?

I have been struggling with how to begin this article. Read more

Chanukah Madness

On the First Night of Chanukah (my spelling), I took a walk down to the memorial at the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street in New York (Yes, I am still here), where every year, Chanukah Chabad builds what they claim is the largest Menorah (or Chanukiah) in the world. Read more

A light unto the nations

The Hebrew prophet Isaiah spoke these memorable words from Jerusalem, the Capital of the Kingdom of Judah. Read more

Shabbat Miketz

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Sydney’s wake-up call: When antisemitism turns deadly

The terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach has brought a long-simmering fear into brutal reality. Read more

UN must abandon two-state solution and adopt HKOPS

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 35^th quarterly Report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2334 – adopted on 23 December 2016 – repeats the same pathetic message he has been delivering to the world community in previous reports without showing any tangible results. Read more

From October 7 to December 14

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Israel prepares for a ‘mass immigration event’

No recent news story better encapsulates the febrile nature of these times than the November exercise in which representatives of Israeli government ministries, welfare agencies and core service providers gamed out various responses to what they termed a “mass immigration event.” Read more

The humanitarian front against Israel 

Amazing news: Amnesty International has now acknowledged that night follows day! Read more

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