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

On the other hand

This week we travelled to the north of Israel to visit our youngest son. Read more

Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical – a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical sizzles with powerhouse performances and a rousing score. Read more

The Rocky Horror Show: reviews by Henry Benjamin

With a massive musical intro, it was time again to see the Roxy Cinema candy seller part the curtains and send us off on to the wild ride that is The Rocky Horror Show. Read more

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more

Why I am a liberal

I recently came across a book called “The Call of the Tribe: Essays” by the Peruvian Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Read more

Pre-Purim portents

Rosh Chodesh Adar (the new month of Adar) has arrived, and that means Purim is not far away. Read more

Dangerous times, and they are of our own making

I can’t recall having seen such a tumultuous first 60 days of any new Israeli government. Read more

Shabbat Terumah: The Lost Ark

The Tabernacle was the House of God, symbolising the Divine Presence. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Adelaide Writers’ Week must not embrace antisemitic hate

Maurice Klein speaks with Justin Amler, policy analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) and L’Chaim – To Life regular contributor about the Writers Week at the upcoming Adelaide Festival 2023 in early March. Read more

NGOs front and centre in the battle over reforming Israel’s legal system

Much-needed reform that will correct an overreaching Supreme Court and thereby make Israel more democratic, or a threat to the democratic values of the state that will destroy the political system’s checks and balances? Read more

A new page in the Russo-Iranian partnership

In July 2022, against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin embarked on a notable foreign trip. Read more

The Mousetrap: a theatre review by Alex First

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened in London’s West End on 25^th November 1952 and has been running continuously (save for the COVID lockdown) ever since. Read more

Josh Piterman talks to J-Wire

Popular musical theatre performer Josh Piterman has just landed one of the roles of his life. Read more

South African activist changes after not finding ‘Black Only’ restrooms in Israel

Desperate to find a restroom after a nearly nine-hour flight from Johannesburg, South African university student Klaas Mokgomole grabbed his carry-on and hurried off the plane…writes David Karsh. Read more

Adriana Lecouvreur: An opera review by Victor Grynberg

Francesco Cilea’s ADRIANA LECOUVREUR is a rarely produced opera nowadays, and this critic doesn’t recall ever seeing it before. Read more

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