On the other hand

How many days of sunshine does Israel experience on an annual basis? Read more

Saudi US-Embassy tries to bury Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

Saudi Embassy Spokesperson in Washington – Fahad Nazer – has tried to bury the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution) – first published in the Saudi Government-controlled Al-Arabiya News on 8 June 2022 and then subsequently amended. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Propagandists of a feather Read more

Dubai’s hotel offers kosher food

A hotel in Dubai is now offering 24-hour Kosher room service. Read more

Challenging the BBC on Israel

For decades, the Western media has acted as a malevolent echo chamber for the demonisation of Israel. Read more

Henry Greener talks with Maureen Barten

Maureen Barten is the new President of Progressive Judaism Victoria. Read more

It’s not a laughing matter

Quite often, one is faced with a situation so absurd that laughter seems to be the only suitable response. Read more

Masterclass – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Oh my. What a breakout, beguiling, absurdist, slapstick comedy Masterclass is. Read more

Talmud on a desert island

One of the longest-running radio program series on the BBC is Desert Island Discs.   Read more

L’Chaim to Life: A podcast with Rabbi Leo Dee

Maurice Klein speaks with Rabbi Leo Dee, about the heartbreaking tragedy that has befallen the beautiful Dee family at the hands of and Jew and Israel-hating Palestinian terrorism. Read more

Shabbat Lech Lecha: All About Spirit

This week’s Torah reading is dominated by the story of the 12 men sent by Moses to scout out the Land of Canaan. There’s a dispute as to whether they went to tour, to undermine, or to spy. The Torah uses all three words. Read more

Chorus Oz – Mahler’s 8th Symphony – reviewed by Shirley Politzer

Do you like to sing in the shower? Dance around the house singing songs? Have you always wanted to share your love of singing but perhaps have no opportunity, then Chorus Oz is for you. Read more

Rigelotto: Reviewed by Murray Dahm

Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (1851) was the composer’s sixteenth opera. Read more

Napoleon was right about the Jews

With the barrage of untruths emanating from Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and his underlings, it is always a welcome and refreshing phenomenon when world leaders recognise and speak the truth about Israel and the Jews…writes Joseph Frager. Read more

Peter Wertheim: Nazi symbols ban a step in the right direction

Federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus will shortly introduce to the parliament The Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past: Izzy Orloff – Famous Fremantle photographer

He was born Abraham in Ukraine on 21 March 1891, the youngest of nine children of Rafael Orloff, draper, and his wife Rachel. Read more

Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook – reviewed by Alex First

The highly entertaining two-hour show could be called the soundtrack of the glorious Robyn Archer’s life. Read more

Do you agree that the original Chassidim were reformers of Judaism?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: More for Less, More or Less Read more

The Culture: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Will (Mina Asfour) and Katie (Laura Jackson) are millennial best friends who live together. Read more

Google ends UN burying Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

Google has ended the United Nations (UN) continuing effort to ignore the existence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) as an alternative solution to replace the failed UN two-state solution contained in UN Security Council Resolution 2334  passed on 23 December 2016 (UNSCR 2334). Read more

IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ band hits 500-show milestone 

Most Israeli bands and performers would be happy to land a few gigs a month, but how many have clocked 500 performances in the past 14 months? Read more

On the other hand

Most countries, including Israel, have designated parking areas reserved for drivers with mobility problems. Read more

IsraAid, JDC, Chabad assist Ukrainians on the ground in wake of dam flooding

When the Kakhovka Dam collapsed on June 6, flooding southeastern Ukraine—killing several people and stranding thousands—those in the region turned to the Israeli non-governmental organisation IsraAID for help…writes Rachel Avraham. Read more

How unsurprising

“Life is full of surprises. Not all these surprises are pleasant, so you need to be ready for what life brings you.” Read more

Happiness

The American constitution says that Americans have the right to happiness. What is happiness? Can the pursuit of happiness be a right, an experience, a state of mind, or an aspiration? Read more

Why can’t we talk about Ukrainian antisemitism?

How important is the struggle against antisemitism to the liberal corporate media? How much of it a priority is it for the organised Jewish world? Read more

Death of a Salesman – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Almost three-quarters of a century after it was written, the power, passion and desolation intrinsic to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) remains intact.

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A mass that pleased the masses

For Mozart fans, last night’s concert by the SSO was a welcome and balanced blend of the master’s work. Read more

Shabbat Bha’alotecha: Arguments

The Torah this week starts very optimistically with the events that come at the end of the first year when they are within sight of the Promised Land. Read more

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