From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Otto Frankel – world-renowned geneticist, plant breeder, cytologist and genetic conservationist

Otto Herzberg-Frankel was born in Vienna on 4 November 1900, the third of four sons of a prominent and wealthy lawyer and his wife Therese. Read more

Courage to Care goes national

Leading community organisation Courage to Care reached a historic milestone this week by forming a new national body, Courage to Care Australia Ltd. Read more

Orlando: A New Musical

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Why are Jews supposed to pray three times a day?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Jessica Fox would be fitting Olympic flagbearer: Meares

Chef de Mission Anna Meares believes Jessiica Fox would make a model Olympic flagbearer but the champion canoeist has downplayed talk she could be chosen to lead Australia into Paris. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: Rising Antisemitism and soaring Factophobia Read more

Video key as man fights Palestine rally assault charge

A man allegedly involved in an ugly clash during a pro-Palestinian rally outside the Opera House will fight an assault charge as his lawyer waits for footage of the incident. Read more

Holocaust survivor saved from Hamas buries son, fears for captive family

“This is a second Holocaust for me,” said survivor Ruth Haran, 87, who is reliving a childhood nightmare. Read more

Israeli military officer dedicates tunnel demolition to slain uncle

Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza area of Beit Hanoun discovered a civilian home connected to several tunnels on Monday. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel concerned about fundamental preachers

Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller refuted the claims of Brother Ismael recently at the Al Madina Dawah Centre, southwest Sydney that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. Read more

Archaeologists enlisted to search for DNA

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists enlisted to join the efforts to search for missing persons in the houses and cars incinerated in the 7^th October Massacre. Read more

Pro-Palestine port protests warned not to disrupt trade

Protesters planning to rally against the arrival in Sydney of an Israeli shipping company are being warned there are consequences for disrupting lawful trade while in Melbourne protestors block a road at Flemington. Read more

Melbourne’s Wall of Hope desecrated

The Wall of Hope, located on the exterior of Melbourne’s Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre, was desecrated overnight. Read more

An open letter signed by hundreds of Australian Jewish artists and academics expresses escalating safety fears

A group of more than 520 Jewish academics and artists has come together to express a call for empathy and humanity in the face of profound collective grief. Read more

Survivors of Hamas rave massacre share their stories with international students

Survivors of the Hamas rave massacre met on Monday with students from the International School of the University of Haifa to reveal their chilling stories to the students. Read more

59 Israeli police killed since October 7

Border Police Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, whom a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem stabbed on Monday morning, has died of her injuries, the Israeli Police announced. Read more

Vigil at Federation Square marks 30 days since Hamas massacre

Hundreds of people attended a vigil on Monday night at Melbourne’s Federation Square to mark ’30 days’ since Hamas infiltrated Israel’s southern border, massacring 1400 people, wounding over 5000 and kidnapping 241. Read more

Defoe’s Plague

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

Faced with modern-day barbarians at Israel’s borders, one would think that most would stand in solidarity with those massacred and kidnapped. Read more

Greens Senate walkout criticising the government

Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi led a protest walk-out by her party during the Senate yesterday’s Question Time at the end of a fire and brimstone speech criticising the government’s position on the Israel-Gaza war. Read more

Nuclear-capable US sub arrives in Mideast in message to Iran

In an apparent message to Iran and its proxies, US Central Command announced on a Sunday that “an Ohio-class submarine arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility”. Read more

Israeli troops surround Gaza City, preparing to enter

Israeli troops have surrounded Gaza City and cut off the northern part of the besieged territory as communications were lost for several hours across Gaza overnight. Read more

Flags fly in Melbourne

Zionism Victoria arranged for seven Israeli flags to fly over Federation Square today in honour of the 1,400 victims of last month’s terror atrocities committed by Hamas. Read more

‘Jihad is the solution’: cops probe preacher comments

An investigation is underway into an Islamic preacher who warned the Australian government was “pushing Muslims into a corner” over the conflict in Gaza, adding that jihad was the “solution”. Read more

UN non-support for Israel spawns worldwide network of Jew-haters

An organised international Jew-haters network has been unleashed following the failure of the United Nations (UN) to cooperate with Israel by evacuating Gaza’s children, women, the sick and the elderly to safe havens outside Gaza to enable Israel to quickly hunt down and kill those monsters in Gaza responsible for the horrific massacre in Israel of 1400 civilians and abducting over 200 as hostages on October 7. Read more

Hamas using Qatari and Indonesian-funded hospitals for terror, says Israel

Israel yesterday presented evidence that Hamas is using a Qatari-funded medical centre in the Gaza Strip to pursue its terrorist warfare. Read more

IDF shows Hamas rocket launchers next to children’s pool, playground

The Israel Defence Forces on Sunday shared video evidence of Hamas rocket launchers placed next to a children’s swimming pool and a playground in the northern Gaza Strip. Read more

Fatah in Gaza joined oct 7 attacks without the knowledge of Mahmoud Abbas

New attention is being drawn to a video posted on social media by Fatah terrorists in Gaza bragging that they joined Hamas in its October 7 attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border. Read more

Israel accuses UN chief of lying over Hamas’s illicit use of ambulances

Hamas is using ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons around Gaza, an Israeli military spokesman said on Friday. Read more

Kindness shines in time of crisis: Israelis unite to support evacuees

As evacuated Israeli families from devastated Gaza-area communities pick up the pieces of their lives, the Ministry of Welfare has dispatched 500 social workers to provide emotional support and assistance. Read more

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