Henry Greener talks with ECAJ’s Lynzi Bennun
March 29, 2024 by Henry Greener-The Shtick
Lynzi Bennun is the Digital Advocacy Director at ECAJ, the Sydney-based Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the roof body of the Australian Jewish community. Read more
Israel’s Orwellian nightmare
March 29, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
For the Jewish world, these are nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Read more
Anatomy of an antisemite
March 29, 2024 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Francesca Albanese is at it again, cloaking her Jew-hatred in legalese and justifying it through denial. Read more
Free speech
March 29, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
In my youth, I always regarded free, reasoned, civilised speech to be one of the most important and positive features of Western societies. Read more
Note the hypocrisy
March 29, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
The world’s glaring hypocrisy is on full display as Ramadan terror strikes once again. Read more
‘Storm over ultra-Orthodox recruitment won’t topple Netanyahu’
March 29, 2024 by David Isaac
The issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) army enlistment reached a boiling point this week as the Netanyahu government failed, despite feverish efforts, to draft legislation to address the issue before a High Court-mandated Wednesday deadline. Read more
We have ten double passes for “Golda” to give away
March 29, 2024 by J-Wire
Thanks to Transmission Films, we have ten (10) double passes to give away to GOLDA a film starring Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin and Liev Schreiber. GOLDA opens nationally in cinemas on May 2. Read more
Into the Fray: Elections: Why now is not the time
March 28, 2024 by Martin Sherman
When Israeli voters next go to the polls over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumour, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion. Read more
Shabbat Tzav Para: Humans First
March 28, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
We continue reading this week about the sacrifices. This is a controversial issue that challenges us to this day. Read more
Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA
March 28, 2024 by Alex First
Cirque du Soleil reviewed by Alex First Read more
Chicago
March 27, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7
In a no-holds-barred interview, former U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom that he supports Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and that he would have responded to the Oct. 7 attack in a very similar way. Read more
West Side Story – reviewed by Shirley Politzer
March 26, 2024 by Shirley Politzer
What makes a good night at the theatre?- a story that resonates, vibrancy, colour, emotion, great music, talented musicians and choreography, purposeful lighting, clear sound, the list goes on. Read more
Zombie! The Musical
March 25, 2024 by Alex First
A Sydney theatre review by Alex First Read more
Feintooner
March 25, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Montreal Purim ShpieLibel 2024 Read more
Israel tags Guterres and UN as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
March 25, 2024 by David Singer
Israel’s patience with the United Nations (UN) has finally, and justifiably, exploded with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling out the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN and its agencies as being both antisemitic and anti-Israel. Read more
The Great Divide
March 25, 2024 by Alex First
A Sydney theatre review by Alex First
The Russian dictator’s double terrorism standards
March 25, 2024 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
Following Friday’s massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the outskirts of Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a video address to his nation. The slaying of “dozens of peaceful, innocent people … including children, teenagers and women,” he said, was a “bloody, barbaric, terrorist act.” Read more
Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim
March 24, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Perhaps the best news I’ve heard out of Israel in recent months concerned the renaming of a holiday pastry. Read more
War is hell. Everywhere.
March 24, 2024 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
“War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” Read more
Blinken’s Rafah blunder
March 24, 2024 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
In a press conference on Thursday in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated his opposition to an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, saying that such a move would be a “mistake.” Read more
Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians
March 24, 2024 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer believes the Palestinian people “want what any other people want: peace, security and prosperity.” Read more
On the other hand
March 24, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Who would have believed this? The UN world happiness report for 2024 has just been issued and Israel appears as the fifth happiest. Read more
The American betrayal of Israel
March 22, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As some of us have long feared, and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defence against a malevolent foe. Read more
Dry Bones
March 22, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
How dare we … Read more
Self Defence
March 22, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
Elliot Horowitz’s overview of Purim over the ages, Reckless Rites and the Legacy of Jewish Violence, has a subtext. It is a quote from the English poet W.H. Auden: “ Those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return.” Read more
From Shushan to Tehran
March 22, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
Haman of Shushan and Khomeini and Raisi of Tehran are comrades in arms bound together with the same evil agenda. Read more
Wicked Little Letters
March 22, 2024 by Alex First
A movie review by Alex First Read more
Shabbat Vayikra & Zachor: Amalek
March 22, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor the Shabbat to Remember. Read more
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
March 19, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne ballet review by Alex First Read more