Review: Alex Edelman: “Just For Us” – The most Jewish comedy special since Jackie Mason

A confession: Until last week, when he won an Emmy Award, I had never heard of Alex Edelman. Read more

No, Israel’s war against Hamas not floundering

The Times’ Middle East Editor Richard Spencer describes Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in Gaza as floundering, with little conviction behind it. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Hephzibah Menuhin – American-Australian pianist, writer, and passionate supporter of women’s and children’s rights. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: The road to peace runs through Hezblastollah Read more

Adler, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and “As a Jew…”

On the weekend, I was planning to write about Israel’s pinpoint pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah, whose leader, Hassan Nasrallah, describes the Jewish state as a “cancerous gland” in the Middle East. But I was thrown off course by Louise Adler’s op-ed headlined, “These are the things I’ve learnt you can’t ask about Israel.” Read more

Palestine: 124 Nations display their Jew-hating credentials

124 of the 193 member nations of the United Nations have publicly recorded their hatred of Jews – banding together to demand: Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Jacqueline Maley

Morry Frenkel speaks with Jacqueline Maley, columnist and senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, about her recent Sunday Age opinion piece: “What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides”. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Inverted morality-The eclipse of good by evil

The grotesque endeavours at the United Nations to justify Hamas’s bestial barbarism should be repudiated and ridiculed. Read more

The Substance

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Dredge (Femmural)

A dance review by Alex First Read more

La Bohème

An opera review by Alex First Read more

On the other hand

Two experiences this week once again provided what we usually call “only in Israel” moments. Read more

An explosive moment of clarification

The Iranian war of extermination against Israel continues to be a clarifying moment for the supposedly civilized world. Read more

Daniel Deronda: George Eliot and the Jews.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England. In 1656, Cromwell failed to persuade Parliament to welcome Jews back officially. Read more

Wretched

Early this past Sunday morning, I was looking at the news headlines and reading the latest wretched pontifications from Blinken and Lammy. Read more

Why is Hamas so confident that it’s winning?

After nearly a year of suffering and grievous losses, most Israelis and Palestinian Arabs will likely observe the anniversary of the war started by Hamas on Oct. 7 with sorrow. Read more

The Israeli James Bond-style attack and Hezbollah’s next steps

The events of Tuesday afternoon in Lebanon sound like they were taken out of a James Bond movie, as sabotaged pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across the country, injuring some 3,000 people, the vast majority of whom were members of the terror organization. Read more

L’Chaim to Life

Maurice Klein speaks with Trevor Asserson, who put together a large team of lawyers and data experts to investigate the BBC bias reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict post October 7. Read more

Shabbat Ki Tavo

Two Mountains

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Albanese, fence-sitter in chief choosing politics over peace in Middle East

This week, the UN shamefully supported a motion, put forward by the Palestinian Authority, to demand Israel stop its campaign to destroy the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist regimes. Read more

Ambassador: No peace without direct negotiations

The United Nations voted for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank. The United States voted against it, Australia abstained, and New Zealand voted for it. Read more

UN adviser says Israel accused of ‘domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, ecocide’ in Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights who has a long history of antisemitic statements, said during a press conference on Monday that the Jewish state is accused of six kinds of offences in Gaza. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past

Isaac Henry Cohen KC – one of Melbourne’s leading barristers and well-known politician Read more

Golfing to raise awareness—and $1 million—for victims of terrorism

California high-school golf phenom Max Margolis, 17, played 101 holes on Sunday at the Caesarea Golf Club, in the baking sun, to raise money for Israeli victims of terror. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Love and Death Read more

Harris chooses UN’s road to hell – Trump offers no alternative

The Harris-Trump Presidential debate has clarified Kamala Harris’s support for the United Nations Security Council in calling for the creation of a Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan (two-state solution) – whilst Donald Trump did not say what he would do if elected as President. Read more

What could Israel expect from a Harris administration?

The path to the Oval Office has seemingly been strewn with roses for Vice President Kamala Harris since she emerged as the chief beneficiary of the Democratic Party establishment’s coup d’état against President Joe Biden. Read more

The media war against Israel

The apparent bias of the US-based ABC TV moderators in failing to call out the falsehoods reportedly spoken by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, in the debate with former President Donald Trump this week has attracted much critical comment. Read more

On the other hand

We are now in the Hebrew month of Elul. Read more

Certainties

We humans love certainties. We think we know, but more often than not, we stumble on. Read more

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