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

Dry Bones: What next?

The bubble has finally burst, and the prime minister has promised to combat crime in the Arab sector. Read more

Blame the Jews for everything

If an Arab is dead, then an Israeli Jew must be to blame. Read more

Bernadette Robinson: Divas

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Dry Bones: The mug shot

The Trump mug shot is a perfect campaign photo … Read more

From New Zealand’s Jewish past – Sir Julius Vogel KCMG – New Zealand’s Eighth Premier

Julius was born in London on 24 February 1835, the son of Albert and Phoebe.

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We are all signatories to the Declaration of Independence

When talking about the Declaration of Independence, one usually focuses on its resounding opening sentences. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Jerusalem Embassy Row Grows Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine not dead yet

The rejection of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (HKOPS) by Jordan’s King Abdullah and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – coming only 15 months after HKOPS was first published – could actually make it easier for Saudi Arabia and Israel to agree upon the terms of its implementation as well as facilitate negotiating the terms for normalizing the Saudi-Israel relationship. Read more

Is it racist to prioritise freedom from terror?

So much of what has been tearing Israel apart in the last several months can be traced back to public opinion about one man—and his last name isn’t Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

‘I am an Israeli … I can’t be anywhere else’

“It’s hot. Drink something, drink!” Read more

Whodunit

Today’s cartoon only “works” if you remember the weird news about the Wagner Group anti-Putin march, which ended with the “yes he’s alive” versus “no he isn’t” debate. Read more

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

We live at a time when what was once unimaginable has today become reality. Read more

Meet Israel’s only female ultra-Orthodox Border Police officer

Sgt. Maj. Avishag Shiran Malka, 38, is the only female ultra-Orthodox member of the Israel Border Police. Read more

Away with the fairies

Originating from Scottish or Irish/Gaelic myths this expression has nowadays come to signify someone who refuses to face reality and lives in a dream world. Read more

Holocaust trauma

We all experience traumas of different kinds. Some are obviously far more serious than others. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: A sense of betrayal

Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion. Read more

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