True colours

It is at times like these when one can discover who is genuine and who is “missing in action”. Read more

Universalism and Tribalism

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Dry Bones: The modern dilemma

Hamas’s war against Israel is Iran’s war against the modern world. Read more

Sydney greengrocer donates sale proceeds to UIA’s Victims of Terror Fund

Steven Zhang, a local resident of St Ives and owner of the St Ives Greengrocer, has supported the local Jewish community in St Ives by donating sale proceeds to victims of terror in Israel through UIA. Read more

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

A musical comedy reviewed by Alex First Read more

Manifesto

A Melbourne dance review by Alex First Read more

Henry Greener hears current news from Joel Burnie

Joel Burnie discusses the Israel/Gaza situation. As Executive Manager at The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, he knows so much more than most…!! Read more

L’Chaim to Life – a podcast: Shay Klein – The A-Team feeding the IDF in the South

Maurice Klein speaks with his cousin Shay Klein in Israel, who with hundreds of volunteers and donors, has joined Tzachi Kafri and “The A-Team” setting up a temporary food station to feed and provide some comforts for the IDF soldiers preparing for the incursion into Gaza. Read more

Israel’s ‘Iron Parrot’ awaits reunion with owner

The rescue workers of Magen David Adom’s Ashdod station refer to their feathered friend as the Iron Parrot. Read more

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

HaShomer HaChadash recruits volunteers to work in agriculture close to Gaza

From the moment the war in the south began, HaShomer HaChadash established a headquarters recruiting volunteers to assist in agricultural work and the protection of agricultural areas. 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

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