Between two blades: Global squeeze on world Jewry

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the global Jewish Diaspora is facing an unsettling squeeze, one that is closing in from both ideological extremes. Read more

Winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Musical Society visits Australia

Australian Friends of the Arthur Rubinstein Musical Society, a prestigious Israeli piano competition, brought prize winner and Japanese piano sensation Yukine Kuroki to Melbourne and Sydney recently for sell-out recitals. Read more

On the other hand

Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) – This Israeli humanitarian organisation, founded in 1995, has treated almost 8,000 children from 73 countries where access to pediatric cardiac care is limited or nonexistent. Read more

Photo gallery: Pre-Chanukah celebration at NSW Parliament House

NSW Premier Chris Minns and newly elected Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane used this year’s pre-Chanukah celebration at Parliament House to deliver firm messages of solidarity with the Jewish community. Read more

The Islamists’ Trojan horse

The “progressive” world is defined by its unchallengeable adherence to two causes: Palestinianism and international human-rights law. The two are symbiotically linked. Read more

Nuremberg

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Troubling Trends

“Put not your trust in princes.” Read more

Illusions and Delusions

Those Jews who survived the Second World War were under no illusion that the world cared about them. Read more

The launch of AUXiL

Australia Israel Exchange this past week signalled a major step forward in strengthening commercial, technological, and research ties between Australia and Israel. Read more

Peace education now      

President Trump’s Gaza peace plan, adopted by the UN Security Council on November 17, 2025, includes references to a reformed Palestinian Authority that would be able to regain control over the Gaza administration…write David Bedein and Arnon Groiss. Read more

Why is US justice for its victims of terror still thwarted?

This week, my family should be joyously marking a child’s birthday. Malki—vibrant, sweet-natured, empathetic, musically talented, everyone’s friend and lovingly devoted to caring for her youngest, very disabled sister—was our first daughter. She would now be 40. Read more

Does it matter that they’re lying about Israel?

A curious thing happened in Israel last week. More than 100 military officers from 20 different countries attended an international conference hosted by the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

Shabbat Vayeytzey

“A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down to Egypt” (Devarim 26:5). This is a well-known line from the Haggadah of Pesach that we read on the Seder night. But what or, more precisely, to whom is it referring? Read more

When the Stones Speak: The remarkable discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You to Know

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

“Bound By History – For We Are One”

The “Bound By History” event scheduled for December 2 was initiated as a response to the deeply disturbing rise in hostility towards Israel, the Jewish community in Australia and those who advocate for shared humanity since 7 October 2023. Read more

Ariel Bart to perform at VJs in Sydney

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Eva Isaacs – psychologist and educationalist Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: clearest path to peace since 2022

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) was being disingenuous whilst sitting in the White House with President Trump on 18 November. Read more

Reconstructing Gaza: The devil is in the detail

No doubt, the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803 on the postwar reconstruction of Gaza was a triumph for American diplomacy. Read more

The siege of Park East Synagogue and cooperating with Mamdani

In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the New York City mayoral election, most Jewish leaders believed that they had no choice but to do their best to cooperate with him. Read more

Time for the UN to salvage its credibility

The United Nations is in the midst of a profound legitimacy crisis. Read more

On the other hand

Despite two years of existential war, including against Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and the Houthis, Israel’s GDP per capita is higher than Germany, the UK, Canada and France. Read more

The muddled morass of ‘settler violence’

Earlier in the week, an Israeli man was murdered and three other people were injured in a stabbing and car-ramming attack at the Gush Etzion junction in central Israel. Read more

Journey through history: Sydney Jewish Museum announces Berlin and Poland tour

The Sydney Jewish Museum is offering Australians a rare opportunity to walk in the footsteps of history with its 2026 Berlin and Poland tour.

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Faulty Follies

As a long time fan of Fawlty Towers and the Life of Brian satirical series I was looking forward to the impending Israel visit of John Cleese. Read more

The Lost Ark

So many people love conspiracy theories, fantasies, and lost causes. Read more

Shabbat Toldot

Role of Women

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INTO THE FRAY: From lords to lemmings – Israel’s legal “elites on the brink

The dramatic events currently unfolding in Israel, shaking the very foundations of its society, underscore the myopic naivety of the Israeli “Right” and its utter inability to fathom the all-consuming, incandescent animosity that its political rivals on the “Left” harbour for it. Read more

The blockade of Gaza was legal; withholding humanitarian aid, not so much

Last month, the International Court of Justice rebuked Israel in an advisory opinion for blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza during the course of the Israel-Hamas war there, emphasising that starvation of civilian populations as a method of warfare is prohibited under prevailing international humanitarian law. Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim – to Life

Col Michael Scott, CSC, GAICD – If Israel falls the world tips into another dark age Read more

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