A concert of colour: A music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Young’s reflected lights, Saint-Saens’ kaleidoscopic second piano concerto and Mussorgsky’s art gallery stroll, resulted in a visually provocative program last night from the SSO under the baton of 39-year-old Estonian Mihhail Gerts. Read more

Shabbat Ki Tisa: What does God look like?

The dominant theme of the Torah this Shabbat is the episode of the Golden Calf. Read more

‘Why do we need judicial reform?’ An architect behind the proposal explains

Professor Moshe Koppel, one of the architects of the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform program, spoke to JNS last week about why the reform is needed and what it’s really about. Read more

At the Adelaide Festival with Alan Slade

Most Jewish Australians will have heard of William Cooper (1860? – 1941), the Aboriginal political activist who, in 1938, led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a petition condemning the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany”. Read more

What’s worse: Threats by Smotrich or Amnesty International?

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich does not appear to be ready for prime time. Read more

Taking on the Russian Titans: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Twenty-six-year-old Albanian-born pianist Marie-Ange Nguci might well have bounded onto the Recital Hall stage wearing boxing gear last night because there was no way she could avoid stepping into the ring with four heavy-weight Russian composers all threatening to knock her out. Read more

At the Adelaide Festival

Cédric Tiberghien, the French classical pianist, started learning to play the piano at age 5, which may explain his masterful rendition of Mozart’s Sonata K331 in the concert he gave in the magnificent Adelaide Town Hall as part of the Adelaide Festival. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Shlomo Weintraub – Samuel Wynn – Wine Merchant and active Zionist

Shlomo (Samuel), the son of Michael and Rivkah Weintraub, was born on 4 April 1891 in Ushimow near Lodz, Russia (Poland).  Read more

Made in China 2.0: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

I am faced with a predicament that I can’t say I have confronted too many times in four decades of reviewing. Read more

On the other hand

Trees throughout Israel have burst forth with blossoms of all colours. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Biden’s new horizon for peace?

The Aqaba Joint Communique issued by the US Department of State suggests that President Biden could be jettisoning his support for UN Security Council Resolution 2334 calling for the creation of a sovereign independent Palestinian Arab State between Israel and Jordan (two-State Solution). Read more

Can women say Kaddish?  

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Manny Waks on a special visit to Melbourne

Child sex abuse advocate Manny Waks is in Melbourne to attend the Malka Leifer. He talks with Henry Greener. Read more

The real threat to Israeli democracy

The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. Read more

Nicanor Day

It’s the festival you might never have heard of, Nicanor Day, the 13^th of Adar, the day before Purim. Read more

Israel is our business

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. Read more

Recycling

When one thinks of recycling, the generally accepted definition is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Read more

Creed III: a movie review by Alex First

After retiring from the ring three years ago, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) lives to fight another day in Creed III. Read more

Readers letters: Adelaide Writers Week

There’s a huge difference between free speech and hate speech, or speech inciting violence. How can the daughter of Holocaust survivors not know this? Read more

Rabbi Garry Robuck talks Purim with Henry Greener

Progressive Rabbi Gary Robuck talks about Purim and the joyous events that will be happening at Melbourne’s Temple Beth Israel (TBI), where he has been Head Rabbi for just over a year, with his wife Jocelyn. Read more

Empire of Light: a movie review by Alex First

Set in the English coastal town of Margate during the turbulent early 1980s, Empire of Light is a sensitive drama romance. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Julie Nathan on Report on Antisemitism in Australia 2022

Morry Frenkel speaks with Julie Nathan, Research Director at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), about the recently published Report on Antisemitism in Australia 2022. Read more

Shabbat Tetzaveh & Zachor: Amelek

The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat when we remember. Read more

Judge the Jewish rioters, but don’t rationalize Arab murderers

In terms of the amount of coverage it has received in the media, the most important event in the Middle East in the last week was a riot carried out by Jews that took place in the town of Huwara following a terrorist attack committed by Palestinian Arabs that took the lives of two young Jewish men. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Celebrating National Council of Jewish Women NSW Division’s 100th anniversary

Whilst NCJWA NSW is not the only organisation in our community to have reached its 100^th anniversary – it certainly is a milestone to celebrate and provides the year ahead with lots of activity. Read more

Knesset: Effect judicial reform and defeat the rule of law mafia

In Israel, the legislature is not sovereign to legislate, and the executive lacks actual control to execute the instructions of the legislature. Read more

Tell me about Purim

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Secret talks paving way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The bombshell revelation that senior aides of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have been holding secret talks for almost two months further confirms the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) acceptance of the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution) as the basis for negotiating an end to 100 years of conflict between Arabs and Jews. Read more

‘Gobblefunk:’ Author Roald Dahl’s antisemitic legacy

In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Read more

One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always adequately capture how much of a geographical impact wars have. Read more

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