The unlearned lessons of 9/11

Sunday marked the twenty-first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Mad Maths: Simple as 1, 2, E3 Read more

Biden & Blinken silent on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

In the Arab-Israel conflict, where every word is dissected and analysed to see whether there could be any change of policy – the use of the words “a two-state solution” instead of “the President’s two-state solution” could well signal President Biden’s abandonment of his own two-state solution – Israel and Palestine – in favour of a Saudi two-state solution – Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. Read more

On the other hand

We are counting down to Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Read more

Queen Elizabeth’s relationship with Holocaust survivors and the State of Israel

Jews around the world are reflecting on the consequential 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II following her death on Thursday and what she meant for the Jewish community. Read more

The queen is dead; long live the king?

That Queen Elizabeth II was both Britain’s longest-serving and the oldest monarch is a testament to the period of history in which she lived and upon which she left an indelible mark. Read more

Tearing up the rules of engagement between Israel and America

A key strategy of Israel’s push-me-pull-you prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has been to refrain from publicly criticising America’s policies in the Middle East. Read more

A century and a quarter later

Basel in Switzerland was the venue for a recent 125-year anniversary reunion commemorating the first Zionist Congress. Read more

Abu Akleh and Biden’s pro-Iran realignment

For four months, no one could explain the Biden administration’s seeming obsession with forcing Israel to accept responsibility for the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11. Read more

US ambassador: Two-state solution needed to ensure Israel remains a Jewish and democratic country

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on Wednesday said it is his guiding principle to advance a two-state solution with the Palestinians because failure to do so is making it difficult to ensure his “North Star” of “maintaining Israel as both a Jewish and democratic state.” Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: Showcasing Israel to innovative thinkers and influential decision makers

Maurice Klein speaks with Michelle Blum, CEO of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) Australia’s pre-eminent international Chamber of Commerce. Read more

Come From Away: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

I have seen it three times now, and on each occasion, I exit the theatre in awe of what I have just witnessed. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Nathan Cohen – continuing the story of the Cohen Family in Tamworth

Nathan, Henry and George’s youngest brother, was born in 1842 in Port Macquarie and educated in Goulburn together with his brothers. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Crazy Hate and Crazier Love Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Lapid No Guts No Vision

Israel’s Prime Minister and candidate for re-election following the 1 November elections – Yair Lapid – refuses to make any comment on the Saudi Peace Plan published on 8 June calling for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one territorial entity to be called The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. Read more

Is circumcision justified?

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On the other hand

At the moment, we are in the midst of an intense heat wave. Read more

Wall to wall Richard Strauss: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Before I go into raptures about the sound of the Australian World Orchestra and the remarkable coup to entice virtually-retired Zubin Mehta to conduct it again, I have to question the choice of an all-Richard Strauss program. Read more

Meet Rivka Carmi, former president of Ben-Gurion University

JNF Australia has had a long association with the Negev, and so it is no surprise that one of the guest speakers at next week’s gala events shares that association. Read more

The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system

After Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York last month by a Muslim intent on fulfilling the murderous 1989 Iranian fatwa against him, the BBC’s Dateline London program ran an interview with the Palestinian commentator Abdel Bari Atwan. Read more

Shake Rattle ‘N’ Roll: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First

A cavalcade of song, movement and colour, Shake Rattle ‘N’ Roll breathes new life into the sounds of the ‘50s and ’60s with entertainment aplenty. Read more

Keeping Dads in the picture: unpacking masculinity this Father’s Day

In an age of respectful relationships, toxic private school cultures and a post-#MeToo world, it’s the question many parents are asking: how do we raise happy, healthy boys?…ask Cassandra Barrett and Dr Simon Grof. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Podcast with Manny Waks

Morry Frenkel speaks with Manny Waks, CEO of VoiCSA (Voice Against Child Sexual Abuse) about the work of this organisation in the areas of advocacy, awareness and enablement. Read more

Running for cover

Pick one of these definitions, and you will have a perfect explanation of current developments. Read more

Celebrate Gorbachev’s failure to save the Soviet Union, not his heroism

Mikhail Gorbachev is being hailed as the man who ended the Cold War, broke up the Soviet empire and freed Soviet Jewry. Read more

The latest Yad Vashem fiasco

When Effi Eitam was tapped in 2020 by then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the new chairman of Yad Vashem—to replace Avner Shalev, who had held the position for nearly three decades—all hell broke loose on the left. Read more

Zionism won. So why is it still under attack 125 years after Basel?

The Zionist movement is throwing itself a party. This week marks the 125th anniversary of Theodor Herzl’s convening of the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Henry Emanuel Cohen – the first President of the NSW Arbitration Court

Henry Cohen was born on 1 December 1840 at Port Macquarie NSW, a twin son of Abraham and Sophia Cohen. Read more

Israel’s rational and irrational Iran policies

As news emerged last week that the United States and Iran are on the verge of concluding a new nuclear deal, Israelis were given two very different interpretations of events. Read more

Time is running out to act against Iran

With the United States and its P5+1 partners on the last stretch of their frenzied race to sign a new version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, a number of retired Israel Defence Forces generals and current think-tank experts have been taking the opportunity to insist that “a bad deal is better than no deal.” Read more

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