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

How international law supports Israel’s right to defend itself

As Israel prepares for an extended battle to eradicate the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist leadership in Gaza, the Jewish state has witnessed an outpouring of support across the globe, on social media, and from U.S. President Joe Biden, among many other world leaders. Read more

Worse than Nazism: It is Babi Yar all over again

Hitler taught the Arabs how to slaughter Jews, yet it can surprise us that the Einsatzaruppen’s chapter in Gaza City could not find a 50-foot deep ravine to gun down the 1200 or more Jews who were massacred on Saturday morning. Read more

Shabbat Bereishit: United We Stand

We will start reading the Torah from the beginning again this week. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Eddie Tamir and JIFF

Maurice Klein speaks with JIFF Artistic Director Eddie Tamir, about JIFF 2023, which opens on October 23 and will be screening 55 Australian premieres of films and TV series from around the world. Read more

Israel’s choices in Gaza all lead to destruction of Hamas regime

The mass-murder rampage conducted by Hamas death squads on southern communities in Gaza on Saturday has seen Israel unleash unprecedented air power against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, but it is clear that this is only a prelude to further Israeli action. Read more

From safe room to nightmare: israeli mother recalls morning of terror

When Bat Sheva Yahalomi woke up to the sirens on Saturday morning, she didn’t imagine that her 12-year-son, Eitan, would be abducted into Gaza by Hamas terrorists or that her husband, Ohad would disappear trying to defend the family of five. Read more

Rejecting HKOPS sees world unleash a monster

I am writing this article in total despair as the Simchat Torah War – started when a large number of bloodthirsty armed Gazan-Arab Jew-haters crossed from Gaza unchallenged into Israel on a Jewish Sabbath and special joyous Festival Day – slaughtering hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians in an orgy of murder and destruction. Read more

Iran’s fingerprints behind Hamas’s murderous rampage, analysts say

Current and former Israeli defence officials suspect Iranian influence played an important role in Hamas’s decision to stage a series of mass murder and kidnap raids on the South on Saturday. Read more

Benjamin Disraeli and Sucot

I have always admired Rabbi Marc Angel. He is the Emeritus Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Yisrael, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York a position he has held since 1969. Read more

Spitting in God’s eye

Earlier this week, ultra-Orthodox Jews parading through Jerusalem’s Old City passed a group of Christians bearing a large wooden cross. Some of the Jews spat on the ground in the Christians’ direction. Read more

Songs from the Book of Life

A concert review by Alex First Read more

Climate Change

One of the “hottest” topics gaining increasing attention these days is the phenomenon of climate change. Read more

Israel-Saudi normalization has nothing to do with Biden

During its first years in office, the Biden administration had difficulty saying the words “Abraham Accords,” let alone taking actions to follow up and expand upon the Trump administration’s foreign-policy triumph. Read more

Recipe for disaster 

After hours of watching TV coverage of massive public demonstrations both in Israel and abroad, including interviews with the “Let’s wash our laundry in public crowd,” I’d had enough! Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Ernest Samuel Marks CBE – sportsman, Sydney’s first Jewish Lord Mayor; wool buyer, politician, and community identity

Ernest was born on 7 May 1871 in West Maitland, New South Wales. Read more

Sh’mini Atzeret/Simchat Torah: Rabbi Apple explains

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on the upcoming festivals. Read more

Time out

When the holidays are over, we will be recharged, ready to face 5784–and whatever it might bring… in theory. Read more

Israeli, Saudi sources: US focus on Palestinians harming normalisation

There is growing frustration among Israeli and Saudi officials over what they see as an overemphasis by Washington on having Jerusalem make concessions to the Palestinians as a means of moving forward in the normalization process between the kingdom and the Jewish state. Read more

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