Shabbat Lech Lecha: Bad people and good

We are living under conditions that remind us of how much we Jews can be hated and to what extremes our enemies can go in order to express such hatred. Read more

Biden changes stance on adopting UN two-state solution

President Biden has seemingly changed his mind following the horrific Simchat Torah massacre and hostage-taking in Israel on 7 October. Read more

Kfar Aza, Be’eri and Hamas’s own footage stand witness to a massacre

Israel and a significant portion of the international community have been deeply affected by the events of Saturday, Oct. 7, when Hamas carried out a coordinated land, air and sea attack on multiple communities on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. Read more

A plaudit for barrister Adam Butt

Professor Suzanne Rutland pens an article on Adam Butt, the barrister who represented five Jewish students who had been bullied through antisemitism at Melbourne’s Brighton Secondary College and took the Victorian Government to court. Read more

Dry Bones: Generations

Hamas’s Oct 7 pogrom has changed us. Read more

Ceasefire advocates are Hamas’s useful idiots

It’s been more than two weeks since the atrocities of Oct. 7 shocked the world with the deliberate cruelty and barbarism exhibited by Hamas terrorists as they conducted what has been aptly described as pogroms inside Israel. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Aaron Bolot – award-winning architect  from the 1930s to 1960s

Aaron Bolotinskiy, later known as Bolot, was born on 14 February 1900 in Crimea – near the Black Sea – and, together with his family, migrated and settled in Brisbane in 1911. Read more

Three generations wiped out by Hamas in Kibbutz Be’eri

A 73-year-old grandmother, her 43-year-old son and barely 10-month granddaughter. Three generations of one Israeli family brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 were laid to rest Sunday side by side, the infant sharing the same coffin as her father. Read more

Israel didn’t start this war, but Israel must finish it

On October 7, 2023, Hamas jihadists from Gaza malevolently carried out sheer wanton attacks on Israel. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Global screaming heats up hatred Read more

Two fronts to modern warfare – “HamaStudios”

In today’s wars, every battle has two fronts. The first is the military battlefield, where the key elements are soldiers, weaponry and ammunition. Read more

Phony, Fickle And Fleeting

As the initial shock over the Hamas massacre of Israelis wears off, the predictable reactions start to roll in. Read more

Gaza’s Shifa Hospital: medical centre or Hamas headquarters?

While the Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza has been the epicentre of international attention, another hospital in the Strip will likely be in the headlines after a widely-expected Israeli ground invasion begins. Read more

Noah, Hamas and Evil

Why did we celebrate Simchat Torah? Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Rambam, Israel’s health care campus of the North

Maurice Klein speaks with Adi Rozen, operational manager of the Australian Friends of Rambam. Rambam is a 1,100-bed hospital, the major tertiary (referral) medical centre for all of Northern Israel, serving more than 2.5 million residents and others referred from all over Israel. Podcast Read more

Flake

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

IDF paves way for a ground offensive, but could Hamas escape with civilians?

As the Israel Defence Forces continue to wait for the security cabinet’s decision to move into Gaza to destroy the Hamas terrorist army, the Israeli military is likely gathering further intelligence on the enemy and preparing its ground forces for entry in increasingly better ways. Read more

Dry Bones: It’s a strange time 

We saw a flow of images of unspeakable atrocities that rivalled the Holocaust’s worst. Read more

Death, destruction, debris mark borderline kibbutz communities near Gaza

Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Southern Israel—The stench of death fills the air.  The signs of carnage and destruction are all around. Read more

Ron Weiser reflects….

Ten observations – some very obvious, but not necessarily to everyone and some which need to be continually repeated. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Percy Joseph Marks

A leading light in Sydney’s Jewish community, and one of Australian Judaism’s great historians. Read more

Hamas weaponizes sympathy for civilians they help kill

It’s a difficult balancing act, but most of the talking heads and pundits are managing to pull it off. Read more

Dry Bones visits Sydney: Hate fests

Protesters calling supporters of the Jewish state “pigs” is a feature of “Free Palestine” rallies worldwide in the wake of Hamas’s massacre of 1,300 Israelis. Read more

Hamas and Iran: Slaughtering Jews for decades

Hamas’s Oct. 7 war on Israel did not surprise those who have been following the actions of Iran and its regime-backed Islamist terror group since it was founded in late 1987. Read more

Pogrom in Israel, antisemitism in Australia

On 7 October 2023, Hamas, the genocidal Islamist government of Gaza, sent armed operatives into southern Israel. They murdered 1300 Israeli civilians – shooting parents and children in their beds, beheading babies, and burning homes to force out Jews hiding in safe rooms. People in whole villages were murdered. Women and girls were raped. Over 150 people, including babies, children, young women, and old grandmothers, were taken hostage and taken into Gaza. Read more

The United Nations owes the Jewish People

The horrific slaughter of more than 1300 civilians in Israel with more than 150 being taken as hostages to Gaza – has seen expressions of outrage, sympathy and support for Israel from many nations.
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Once a Jew, always a Jew?

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Acts of courage: Amid horror, Israelis rise to occasion

For some, it was their final act. Kibbutz Be’eri’s 22-year-old paramedic insisted on staying and helping the wounded, then hid for six hours in the clinic’s kitchenette, grasping a knife, waiting (like so many) for help that never came. Read more

Hamas atrocities explode the two-state myth

At last. After 17 years of Western diplomatic pressure from the United States to limit its responses to Hamas terrorism, it appears that Washington may be finally prepared to let Israel strike a decisive blow against the Islamist group in Gaza. Read more

A desolate Sderot waits for the rockets to stop

SDEROT, Israel—This city, at its closest barely a half-mile from the Gaza Strip, lies forlorn, its storefronts shuttered and its tens of thousands of residents mostly gone. Read more

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