The utopian Jewish life of ‘You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’

This week, I joined fellow Jewish educators, tweens, and countless other Jews and Jew-curious Netflix binge-watchers and entered into the world of middle-school drama and coming-of-age angst encapsulated in “You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”…writes Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath. Read more

Dry Bones: Another Soros

Alex Soros seems to be more George Soros-y than his father. Who knows what he’s capable of doing with all that money? Read more

You Don’t Have To Be Jewish

Veteran West End theatre couple Linal Haft and Buster Skeggs will return to the stage together for the Australian premiere of the legendary musical sketch comedy revue You Don’t Have To Be Jewish. Read more

On the other hand

Customer service in Israel has in the past been a rather patchy affair. Read more

Death of a Salesman

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Tubular Bells for Two

A  music review by Alex First Read more

A Nazi speech in Ramallah tells a much larger tale

Last Wednesday, a spat between Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan caused an international uproar. Read more

Musk vs. Greenblatt is the unspeakable vs. the uneatable

The cage fight now taking place between the U.S. Anti-Defamation League and the world’s richest man Elon Musk is, as Oscar Wilde might have observed, a contest between the unspeakable and the uneatable. Read more

Dry Bones: ‘Thomas the accuser’

In response to reports of progress in normalization talks between Jerusalem and Riyadh, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman begged U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to not allow themselves to become Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “useful idiots.” Read more

Days of pain and joy

We are now in the Jewish month of Elul. In the Northern Hemisphere, we say goodbye to the ‘lazy hazy crazy days of summer’, as the song goes. Pleasure is over, back to business. Read more

Shabbat Nitzavim and Vayeylech: Secrets

This week’s Torah includes this sentence. “The hidden ( secrets) belong to our God and the revealed things are for us and our children forever. To carry out all the words of this Torah” (Deuteronomy 29:28). Read more

Nicola Benedetti performs Marsalis

An SSO review by Shirley Politzer Read more

Par for the course

The Jewish year may be winding down but Jews and Israel continue to dominate the news one way or another. Read more

Antisemitism won’t be stopped by censoring Musk’s X

Elon Musk may have thought that he was being shaken down by the American Anti-Defamation League. Read more

Debunking the Palestinian statehood myth, one fact at a time

There has been so much discussion and debate within Australian Federal Politics lately, particularly within sections of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) about the inevitability, legitimacy, and recognition of “a Palestinian State within pre-1967 borders” that I felt compelled to set the record straight in relation to what I consider to be some critical historical falsehoods and myths being regularly espoused and circulated to support such claims. Enough is enough. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joan Mavis Rosanove – a trail blazing Australian lawyer

Joan was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 11 May 1896 to Mark Lazarus, a barrister and solicitor, and his wife Ruby. Read more

Want to know about the cantor’s prayer in the Rosh Hashanah service?

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The Angel of Kings Cross: The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

Security Council must adopt Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The rapid deterioration in the security situation in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza requires the UN Security Council to take urgent steps to abandon its failed two-state solution expressed in Resolution 2334 passed on 23 December 2016 and adopt the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on 8 June 2022 as subsequently amended. Read more

A Bavarian scandal shines a light on Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’

For the best part of a week, Germany has been gripped by an antisemitism scandal centred on Hubert Aiwanger, the deputy premier of the southern state of Bavaria. Read more

Dry Bones: UNIFIL renewed again

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was renewed. For another year. Again. Read more

On the other hand

The call of the shofar every morning can be heard from one end of Israel to the other. Read more

Dry Bones: When horses fly

Israeli cyber-security firm NSO Group was named in Time magazine’s 2022 list of the 100 most influential companies in the world. Read more

Will Israeli democracy survive the court?

On Sept. 28, Israel’s Supreme Court is expected to rule in favour of a petition from the far-left Movement for Quality Government to overturn the Nov. 1, 2022 elections. Read more

Israelophobia is the newest form of the oldest hatred

Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti.” Read more

Clive Marks ז״ל Lamed Vavnik

In my long life in Jewish affairs, I have met very few prominent public figures who were or are righteous in the true sense. Read more

Conditional Friendships

One can always discern when a potential friendship is really a conditional one. Read more

Shabbat Ki Tavo: The Land of Israel

“When you enter the land that your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take the first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that your God giving you, and put them in a basket and go to the place that God chooses and to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, “I acknowledge this day before your God that I have entered the land that swore to our fathers to assign us.” ( Deuteronomy 26:1-2). Read more

Scrapper

A movie review by Ilan Harris Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Lt Col (res) Sarit Zehavi –  Hezbollah’s escalation of flagrant violations

Maurice Klein speaks with Lt Col (res) Sarit Zehavi, founder and President of ALMA Research and Education Centre, dedicated to researching the security challenges on Israel’s northern borders. PODCAST Read more

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