Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine threatens conflict industry

Ten months have passed since the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution was published in Al-Arabiya News on 8 June 2022 (Saudi Solution) – yet not one word has appeared in the major international or any other news services – my publishers excepted – scarcely subjected to any analysis by the multiple think tanks, non-Government organisations [NGOs] and analysts around the world or been mentioned at the United Nations even once. Read more

Rolling Thunder Vietnam (Australian tour) reviewed by Alex First

Rolling Thunder Vietnam is a deeply emotional, richly rewarding musical and narrative experience that takes you to the heart of the highly divisive Vietnam War. Read more

Have you heard?

This year we have struck the jackpot as Pesach, Ramadan and Easter all coincide. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Guess who’s not coming for dinner Read more

Air: A movie review by Alex First

How do you make a compelling film when the outcome is clear for the world to see? Read more

A chat with David Southwick

David Southwick, Liberal State MP for Caulfield, talks with Henry Greener about the state of Victoria, Malka Leifer’s guilty verdict, and his gig at this year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut event as DJ Dave for a good cause. Read more

Julia: A Sydney theatre review by Alex First

Brilliantly performed by Justine Clarke, who, as the 27^th Australian Prime Minister, displays determination, indignance and frustration, I would suggest one’s political predilection will have a fair say in how Joanna Murray-Smith’s words go down. Read more

Who will control Israel’s new National Guard?

Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov “Kobi” Shabtai on Tuesday continued his attacks against the proposal to create an independent National Guard, after meeting the previous evening with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Read more

Linoleum – a movie review by Alex First

A quirky, feel-good, sci-fi comedic drama, Linoleum concerns a decent man of science in Ohio who has always aspired to become an astronaut. Read more

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: A Sydney theatre review by Alex First

What a hoot! Read more

Four questions on Pesach

Ask the rabbi! Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Elias Blaubaum

Elias Blaubaum was a most inspirational and outstanding member of the Melbourne Jewish Community as Minister of the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation for thirty-one years and editor of the Jewish Herald for almost twenty-five. Read more

Fences: a Sydney theatre review by Alex First

We’re among African-Americans in a working-class suburb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Read more

LinkedIn blots out comments on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

LinkedIn operating systems have seemingly enabled 10 of my published comments to be erased during a discussion with a Geopolitical Risk Analyst requesting his assessment of the threat to world peace posed by the continuing failure of the United Nations (UN) to acknowledge the existence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published on 8 June 2022. Read more

The real meaning of ‘pro-Palestinian’

An anti-Israel group called Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF) on March 20 invited officials from the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to speak at an event at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Read more

Saving Israel’s Democracy: Nirit Eylon talks with Henry Greener

Nirit Eylon is a spokesperson for Saving Israel’s Democracy’, a group of people organising a regular Rally at Caulfield Park to demonstrate against proposed judiciary reforms by the recently elected coalition in Israel led by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. Read more

Firstborn

I am a firstborn male. And I fast on the eve of Pesach because all the Egyptian firstborns were struck down by the tenth plague and I (metaphorically) survived! Read more

The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? A Sydney theatre review by Alex First

Melbourne-based, I flew to Sydney to catch up on five shows over five nights. One I was keen to see was The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Read more

Appalling

The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs (and Trade) has issued a statement that they are “appalled” at the assertion by Israel’s Finance Minister that today’s Palestinians are fakers. Read more

Shabbat Tsav and Shabbat HaGadol: The Big One

The Shabbat before Pesach is always called Shabbat HaGadol. The Great or Major Shabbat. Although the section we will read is Tsav (Leviticus Chapter 6-8:36). Read more

Meet Luke Gabbedy…and see him perform in Madama Butterfly

The Handa Opera’s Madama Butterfly is currently nightly on Sydney Harbour, necessitating two casts to perform on alternative evenings. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: The Hon. Edward Aaron Cohen

It would be interesting to know which was the most popular Jewish family name in Australia from convict times to today.  A number of stories have been written about ‘Cohens’ – many are related. Read more

‘The system has failed:’ Antisemitism flourishes in France

Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris by two intruders, one of whom was a neighbour she had known since his childhood. Read more

Where did the accusation that Jews used Christian blood to make wine originate?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Madama Butterfly: An opera review by Murray Dahm

This Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (HOSH) production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was first seen in 2014 and here makes its triumphant return ‘home.’ Read more

EU fuels Jew-hatred that Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine can end

The European Union’s institutionalised Jew-hatred was on full show when the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 2019 – Josep Borrell – took the opportunity to castigate the Jewish State and one of its Ministers during a press conference. Read more

On the other hand

It is not hard to discern that Passover is fast approaching. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: New friends with benefits Read more

Israel’s post-democracy moment

The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened. Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: Martin Imber

Training my neuroplastic brain Read more

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