INTO THE FRAY: November: Persian preferences
October 14, 2024 by J-Wire
Translated into Persian, the search for peace and regional stability—the oft-aired aspiration of the Biden-Harris administration—means giving Tehran the bomb. Read more
War fatigue settles among Palestinians
October 13, 2024 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
One year after the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel ignited a multi-front war between the Jewish state and Iran’s regional proxies, a discernible trend is emerging among many Palestinians, especially those in Gaza. They are getting tired of the war. Read more
On the other hand
October 13, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
This year’s celebrations of Sukkot will be rather surreal in Israel. Read more
The pro-Palestinian protest marches are the antithesis of peaceful
October 13, 2024 by Ron Weiser
Much has changed in Israel in the past few weeks, whilst many things remain the same. Read more
The Jewish moment
October 11, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Earlier this week, there was a sound that has become all too rare. It was a Western political leader expressing unequivocal moral clarity. Read more
Days of judgment
October 11, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
One of the prayers recited during Rosh Hashanah services deals with what may lie ahead in the year to come. Read more
Yom Kippur Eve
October 11, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
Hope or Trust? Read more
Deborah Conway: new challenges for a brave artist
October 10, 2024 by Anne Sarzin
A book review by Anne Sarzin Read more
L’Chaim to Life
October 10, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Peter Hartcher, award-winning political and international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, and non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, about his op-ed in the above papers, titled, ‘Too ugly to imagine: Australia can’t allow ancient hatreds, like antisemitism, to fester’. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
October 8, 2024 by Ruth Lilian
Stefan Friedrich Smerd – world-renowned solar physicist Read more
October 7 and the antisemitic flood
October 7, 2024 by Andre Oboler
In Australia, it is now October 7, the first anniversary of the horrific Hamas terrorist attack that killed 1,200 people in Israel. Read more
Feintooner
October 7, 2024 by Feintooner
This week’s cartoon: Persona non grata race to disgrace. Read more
Israel condemns United Nations & Secretary-General Guterres
October 7, 2024 by David Singer
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Israel Katz have launched an unprecedented attack on the United Nations (UN) and its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the eve of the first anniversary of Gaza’s invasion of Israel. Read more
A poem for October 7
October 7, 2024 by Menachem Rosensaft
october 7 mourning in fury Read more
Explainer: Why southern Lebanon is key to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict
October 6, 2024 by Pesach Benson
The volatile region of southern Lebanon has long been a focal point in the ongoing Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Read more
‘Regional stability’: The Mirage of the Middle East
October 6, 2024 by Bruce S. Ticker
To “pursue regional stability” is probably the most worrisome phrase uttered to date by any political leader, namely New York’s U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, in spite of Israel’s astonishing rout of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Etudes/Circle Electric (The Australian Ballet)
October 6, 2024 by Alex First
A ballet review by Alex First Read more
Tina: The Tina Tuner Musical
October 6, 2024 by Alex First
A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more
Dry Bones
October 2, 2024 by Yaakov - DryBones - Kirschen - JNS
It’s not just New Year…. Read more
Netanyahu rebounds after political and military successes
October 1, 2024 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a spectacular and dramatic week. Read more
‘Mafia Tactics’: how Hezbollah intimidates Christians, steals southern Lebanese property
October 1, 2024 by Pesach Benson
The phone rests on the car’s dashboard, filming nothing out of the ordinary as it passes the green pasture of the southern Lebanese village of Aanquon. Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Kamala’s unsavoury supporters
September 30, 2024 by Martin Sherman
Recently, a distressed Twitter/X message from a well-known Israeli-Australian human rights jurist caught my eye. Read more
Penny Wong gets it terribly wrong
September 30, 2024 by David Singer
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s National Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September reveals her ignorance about the 100 years-old unresolved Jewish-Arab conflict in former Palestine: Read more
Who was Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah?
September 29, 2024 by Pesach Benson
Hezbollah, Iran and their allies were stunned by the death of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah in a Friday night airstrike in Beirut. Both Israel and Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death on Saturday. Read more
On the other hand
September 29, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
This forthcoming Rosh Hashanah in Israel will be surreal. Read more
Guterres & UN bury Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution & peace
September 29, 2024 by David Singer
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has had the gall to address the Opening of the General Debate of the Seventy-ninth Session of the General Assembly on 24 September and declare: Read more
Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova
September 27, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
An important, extraordinary and shattering film started screening this week. Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Againis about the massacre at the Supernova music festival during the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel. Read more
Eyes wide open
September 27, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
We are living in volatile and uncertain times. Read more
9-11 is not 10-7
September 27, 2024 by Greg Bouwer
September 9, 2001. The day that changed America. Al-Qaeda struck a blow to the US by flying passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Read more
Weighing Trump’s and Harris’ policies toward Israel
September 27, 2024 by Bruce S. Ticker
We can envision Donald J. Trump wagging his forefinger as did Pakistani restauranter Babu from Seinfeld when the former president proclaimed, “The Democrats are very bad to Israel, very bad.” Read more
