Funeral service for Rabbi Eli Schlanger

 

A Funeral Service will be held for Rabbi Eli Schlanger

From October 7 to December 14

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Israel prepares for a ‘mass immigration event’

No recent news story better encapsulates the febrile nature of these times than the November exercise in which representatives of Israeli government ministries, welfare agencies and core service providers gamed out various responses to what they termed a “mass immigration event.” Read more

The humanitarian front against Israel 

Amazing news: Amnesty International has now acknowledged that night follows day! Read more

On the other hand

Scientists in Israel, collaborating with Australian researchers, have unveiled a groundbreaking method to restore dying coral reefs, offering new hope for marine ecosystems threatened by climate change. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Strange Bedfellows in Hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus

“Why are my tax dollars being used to murder Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh – to murder Armenian Christians?” – Tucker Carlson, November 8, 2025. Read more

A different Chanukah

When we talk about being Jewish, we become aware the very term is ambiguous and ill-defined. Read more

Disbelieving

There have been far too many times in the long and convoluted history of the Jewish People when stark reality has been denied. Read more

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Shabbat Vayeyshev

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A soldier’s new mission – fighting antisemitism

On the night of October 10, 2023, days after the massacre in Israel, crowds chanted ‘Where’s the Jews?’ at the Sydney Opera House. Watching the news the next day, Col Michael Scott turned to his wife. ‘I can’t stay silent,’ he said. It was at the moment he realised he had a responsibility to act.

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Mirrie Irma Jaffa Hill, OBE – a prolific Australian composer of her time Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  The 3 No’s of Hamas’s Pieces Plan Read more

AI outs Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman as HKOPS author

Chat GPT has outed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) as the real author of the four versions of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on the purported author Ali Shihabi’s website. Read more

On Both Sides of The Wall: A resistance fighter’s firsthand account of the Warsaw Ghetto

A riveting account of Warsaw Ghetto resistance           Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Netanyahu deserves exoneration, not a pardon

Since submitting a formal request for a pardon from Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been issuing explanations for what many of his supporters consider a disappointing move. Read more

Britain’s new far-left party may be Jeremy Corbyn’s undoing

Like a stubborn stain that clings to your shirt no matter how many times you venture to the dry cleaners, Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom, refuses to disappear. Read more

On the Other Hand

The next time you visit Israel, keep an eye out for United Hatzalah’s newest emergency response vehicle to hit the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Read more

The canonisation of Marwan Barghouti

Celebrity narcissists looking for another virtue to signal have alighted upon a fresh cause appropriate to their moral stature: freedom for a notorious mass murderer of the innocent. Read more

Lunacy unleashed

Journalists and those working in the mainstream news media are familiar with the expression “the silly season.” Read more

Excessive Weddings

It has been part of my life as a rabbi to attend weddings; more often than not to “perform.” Read more

’Tis the season to be jihadi

It’s that time of year again: Christmas trees and Chanukah menorahs; tinsel and dreidels; plum puddings and potato latkes; Christmas caroling and Adam Sandler’s Chanukah song—and, of course, everyone’s favourite holiday cheer: Muslims proving once again that “Peace on Earth and goodwill toward Men” is a Judeo-Christian tradition that they want no part of. Read more

Alon Ohel reveals how he survived two years of torment in Gaza

During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 that aired on Monday, released hostage Alon Ohel, 24, said he is alive today because he made a conscious decision to survive. Read more

Shabbat Vayishlach

Run or stand? Read more

Podcast: L’Chaim to Life

Malka Lawrence speaks with Bianca Stern, General Manager of ‘All Things =’, a café and social enterprise in Balaclava that celebrates differences and creates meaningful employment pathways for people of all abilities. Read more

Israel needs an end to lawfare, not a presidential pardon

There are some sound reasons for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to choose not to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But none of them have anything to do with justice, defending the Jewish state’s judicial system or even its democracy. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Sydney David Einfeld AO – Politician and Community Leader Read more

A rabbi’s failed attempt to clean up Holocaust distortion

On November 20, Thomas Rose, the U.S. ambassador to Poland, delivered a speech in Warsaw in which he categorised as a “historic injustice” and “grotesque falsehood” any suggestion that “Poland shares guilt for the barbaric crimes committed against it” during World War II, presumably including the murder of millions of Polish Jews in German-occupied Poland. Read more

Why stripping “religion” from terror laws puts Jews at risk

More than two years after 7 October 2023, life for Jewish Australians feels very different. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Interfaith Solidarity Read more

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