Feintooner
October 23, 2023 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Global screaming heats up hatred Read more
HaShomer HaChadash recruits volunteers to work in agriculture close to Gaza
October 23, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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”
October 20, 2023 by Yael Holan
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
October 20, 2023 by Michael Kuttner
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?
October 20, 2023 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
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
October 20, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
Why did we celebrate Simchat Torah? Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Rambam, Israel’s health care campus of the North
October 19, 2023 by Features Desk
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
October 19, 2023 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
IDF paves way for a ground offensive, but could Hamas escape with civilians?
October 18, 2023 by Yaakov Lappin
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
October 18, 2023 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
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
October 18, 2023 by Etgar Lefkovits
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….
October 18, 2023 by Ron Weiser
Ten observations – some very obvious, but not necessarily to everyone and some which need to be continually repeated. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Percy Joseph Marks
October 17, 2023 by Features Desk
A leading light in Sydney’s Jewish community, and one of Australian Judaism’s great historians. Read more
Hamas weaponizes sympathy for civilians they help kill
October 17, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s a difficult balancing act, but most of the talking heads and pundits are managing to pull it off. Read more
Dry Bones visits Sydney: Hate fests
October 17, 2023 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
Protesters calling supporters of the Jewish state “pigs” is a feature of “Free Palestine” rallies worldwide in the wake of Hamas’s massacre of 1,300 Israelis. Read more
Hamas and Iran: Slaughtering Jews for decades
October 16, 2023 by Khaled Abu Toameh
Hamas’s Oct. 7 war on Israel did not surprise those who have been following the actions of Iran and its regime-backed Islamist terror group since it was founded in late 1987. Read more
Pogrom in Israel, antisemitism in Australia
October 16, 2023 by Julie Nathan
On 7 October 2023, Hamas, the genocidal Islamist government of Gaza, sent armed operatives into southern Israel. They murdered 1300 Israeli civilians – shooting parents and children in their beds, beheading babies, and burning homes to force out Jews hiding in safe rooms. People in whole villages were murdered. Women and girls were raped. Over 150 people, including babies, children, young women, and old grandmothers, were taken hostage and taken into Gaza. Read more
The United Nations owes the Jewish People
October 16, 2023 by David Singer
The horrific slaughter of more than 1300 civilians in Israel with more than 150 being taken as hostages to Gaza – has seen expressions of outrage, sympathy and support for Israel from many nations.
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Once a Jew, always a Jew?
October 16, 2023 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
Ask the Rabbi Read more
Melbourne: RALLY TONIGHT
October 13, 2023 by J-Wire
5PM – before Shabbat. Read more
Acts of courage: Amid horror, Israelis rise to occasion
October 13, 2023 by David Isaac
For some, it was their final act. Kibbutz Be’eri’s 22-year-old paramedic insisted on staying and helping the wounded, then hid for six hours in the clinic’s kitchenette, grasping a knife, waiting (like so many) for help that never came. Read more
Hamas atrocities explode the two-state myth
October 12, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
At last. After 17 years of Western diplomatic pressure from the United States to limit its responses to Hamas terrorism, it appears that Washington may be finally prepared to let Israel strike a decisive blow against the Islamist group in Gaza. Read more
A desolate Sderot waits for the rockets to stop
October 12, 2023 by Etgar Lefkovits
SDEROT, Israel—This city, at its closest barely a half-mile from the Gaza Strip, lies forlorn, its storefronts shuttered and its tens of thousands of residents mostly gone. Read more
How international law supports Israel’s right to defend itself
October 12, 2023 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
As Israel prepares for an extended battle to eradicate the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist leadership in Gaza, the Jewish state has witnessed an outpouring of support across the globe, on social media, and from U.S. President Joe Biden, among many other world leaders. Read more
Worse than Nazism: It is Babi Yar all over again
October 12, 2023 by Bruce S. Ticker
Hitler taught the Arabs how to slaughter Jews, yet it can surprise us that the Einsatzaruppen’s chapter in Gaza City could not find a 50-foot deep ravine to gun down the 1200 or more Jews who were massacred on Saturday morning. Read more
Shabbat Bereishit: United We Stand
October 12, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
We will start reading the Torah from the beginning again this week. Read more
L’Chaim – to Life: Eddie Tamir and JIFF
October 12, 2023 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with JIFF Artistic Director Eddie Tamir, about JIFF 2023, which opens on October 23 and will be screening 55 Australian premieres of films and TV series from around the world. Read more
Israel’s choices in Gaza all lead to destruction of Hamas regime
October 11, 2023 by Yaakov Lappin
The mass-murder rampage conducted by Hamas death squads on southern communities in Gaza on Saturday has seen Israel unleash unprecedented air power against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, but it is clear that this is only a prelude to further Israeli action. Read more
From safe room to nightmare: israeli mother recalls morning of terror
October 10, 2023 by Sveta Listratov
When Bat Sheva Yahalomi woke up to the sirens on Saturday morning, she didn’t imagine that her 12-year-son, Eitan, would be abducted into Gaza by Hamas terrorists or that her husband, Ohad would disappear trying to defend the family of five. Read more
Rejecting HKOPS sees world unleash a monster
October 9, 2023 by David Singer
I am writing this article in total despair as the Simchat Torah War – started when a large number of bloodthirsty armed Gazan-Arab Jew-haters crossed from Gaza unchallenged into Israel on a Jewish Sabbath and special joyous Festival Day – slaughtering hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians in an orgy of murder and destruction. Read more
