Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin 

The unspeakable performance by Roger Waters in Berlin last week crossed a number of new red lines, even for him. Read more

The gravest threat Israel faces is Iran

In April 2023, The New York Times published that among the hundreds of top-secret Pentagon documents that were leaked recently, one CIA report (“Israeli Mossad Encourages Protests Against New Government Over Proposed Judicial Reforms”) stated: “In early to mid-February, Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (Mossad) leaders advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest against the new Israeli Government’s proposed judicial reforms, including several explicit calls to action that decried the Israeli Government, according to signals intelligence.” Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: The Violins of Hope: strings of the Holocaust

Morry Frenkel speaks with Barry French, who will be appearing in Moira Blumenthal Productions’ “Stories from the Violins of Hope” at the Bondi Pavilion, Sydney, from May 31^st to June 18^th. Read more

Zeddy Lawrence interviews Henry Greener

Zeddy Lawrence takes over the show, asking Henry about his camel collection and past as an antique dealer, followed by the unveiling of the Israel Peace Garden, officiated by City of Glen Eira Mayor Cr. Jim Magee and Zionism Victoria President Yossi Goldfarb. Read more

Worstward Ho: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s works can be difficult to get your head around. Read more

Catch Me If You Can: The Musical – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Tony Burge, who assumes the role of lead FBI agent Carl Hanratty chasing boyish con man Frank Abagnale Jr. excels in Cloc’s production of Catch Me If You Can. Read more

Shoebox tale of Shoah survival alters entrepreneur’s life

It was an ordinary shoebox that changed Eitan Neishlos’s life forever. Read more

Problematic

For three millennia, the reaction towards Jews, Judaism and the Promised Land has been problematic. Read more

Shavuot and the Culture Wars

As far as the Bible was concerned, the festival of Shavuot ( Pentecost) that we celebrate this weekend was no more than a harvest festival.  Read more

Dershowitz: Amanpour equating terrorists and victims is beneath contempt

Rabbi Leo Dee, who said he is considering suing CNN for $1.3 billion, has retained the attorney and former Harvard Law school professor Alan Dershowitz on a pro bono basis. Read more

A Sydneysider joins the demonstrations in Israel

With his camera at the ready, Sydney photography enthusiast David Itzkowic hit the streets in Israel to capture the mood of the ongoing Saturday night protests in Israel. Read more

Verdi’s Requiem: A concert review by Shirley Politzer

Verdi’s Requiem, his largest and most significant choral work, performed recently by the Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and Orchestra, is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, a double choir and orchestra. Read more

Shavout in Israel in the 1930s and 1940s

Bikkurim celebrates the presentation of the first fruits coinciding with Shavuot. Read more

Judicial reform: An urgent imperative

For months Israel has been engulfed in a tumultuous public dispute in the titanic clash between the advocates of a direly needed reform of the country’s system of law enforcement on the one hand, and its increasingly strident opponents on the other. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joachim Matthias Wendt – Silversmith extraordinaire

Joachim was born on 26 June 1830 in Itzehoe, a small town in Holstein, Germany, which at the time was a Danish province. Read more

I Wanna Be Yours – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Navigating the vicissitudes in a relationship can be tricky at the best of times, but cross-cultural unions, more often than not, face additional difficulties. Read more

Beautiful Highness: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Today, deteriorating mental health is spoken about far more often than it used to be, which is a good thing, but what does it look like up close and personal? Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Singing from the same hymnal. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution: Alive or Dead?

Two seemingly contradictory news reports within the space of 48 hours have thrown into doubt the possible implementation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (HKOPS) to end the unresolved 100-year conflict between Jews and Arabs. Read more

Can you tell me something about Shavuot?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

The Coronation

Whatever one may or may not think of monarchy, the coronation of King Charles was a magnificent pageant. Read more

Christiane Amanpour and the Institutionalisation of media bias

At what point do we just shrug and no longer bother to even complain about a biased press? Read more

Soros, antisemitism and the progressive assault on language

One of the key characteristics of our difficult times is the way in which the progressive left has hijacked language. Read more

The weaponisation of antisemitism against conservatives

A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponised antisemitism against it. Read more

A Capital Offence

One of the synonyms for a capital offence is a heinous crime. Read more

Joe Biden’s empty words about antisemitism

For those who think what Jews need is more official recognition of their heritage, it was a great afternoon. Read more

Shabbat B’Midbar: War and Conscription

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Those irritating antisemitic thugs: how low can they go?

Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Florida, picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. Read more

A blend of the familiar, the unfamiliar and the new: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Having Wolfgang in your name would seem to direct your destiny towards musical composition. It certainly did with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, (1897 – 1957)  whose only symphony was played by the SSO last night. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Holocaust survivor Suzi Steed

Maurice Klein speaks with Suzi Smeed, who was just two years old when her family was swept up in the Hungarian Holocaust as the Nazis stormed into Budapest with the goal of rounding up all the Jews and freighting them to Auschwitz for extermination. Read more

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