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Sep 4, 2026, 3:29 PM

The Fiddler Still Plays, But This Time We Have a Home

My husband Ezry and I at Fiddler on the Roof in Sydney Australia, 2026. (courtesy)

Last night, I went to see Fiddler on the Roof in Sydney. It was fantastic, brilliantly done, and the fiddler was particularly special, my friend and musician Ben Adler, who did a superb job! Throughout the show, there were so many moments that got me....

Jul 28, 2026, 4:44 PM

Israel Must Read China’s Africa Tech Map

The next China-Israel story may begin far from Haifa, Tel Aviv, or Washington. It may begin in Cairo, where Huawei is selling AI infrastructure to Egyptian companies; in Rabat, where a Chinese battery giant is backing Morocco’s electric-vehicle ambitions; or under the Red Sea, where...

May 12, 2026, 11:52 AM

Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism: Is anyone listening?

I know I speak for thousands of Australians when I say we desperately hope that the Royal Commission on Antisemitism – currently under way in Sydney – will be a key factor in bringing about the change that our country urgently needs. Because a crucial...

Mar 10, 2026, 2:24 AM

Tucker Carlson Helping Rebuild the Third Temple?

Tucker Carlson on his podcast ranting about Chabad.

Why Tucker Carlson might actually be helping rebuild the Third Temple…Yes, really. Recently, Tucker Carlson went on a rant suggesting that Chabad-Lubavitch is pushing the war with Iran to help rebuild the Third Temple. Talk about Jewish influence. Sound familiar? For centuries, Jews were accused...

Feb 21, 2026, 10:12 AM

Jewish Australians no longer feel safe

While the nightmare of Australia’s Bondi Beach was over by nightfall on December 14, 2025, the cloud which preceded it and the massive trauma that it generated continue to darken this country. I was the editor of the Australian Jewish News when 9/11 happened. I editorialised that...

Feb 10, 2026, 5:04 AM

Wake Up, Australia, Wake Up, World

There is a huge problem happening right now, in Australia, and across the world, but it is particularly urgent here. The recent terrorist attack in Bondi, the deadliest in Australian history specifically targeting the Jewish community, was not just a tragedy; it was a wake-up...

Feb 3, 2026, 4:27 AM

The EU and the Question of Designation

The EU moves to ban the Muslim Brotherhood

For many years, Western governments operated under a reassuring assumption: extremism announces itself through violence, and movements that work through courts, charities, and civic institutions must therefore be part of the democratic bargain. It was a tidy distinction, administratively convenient and morally comforting. But history...

Jan 30, 2026, 1:55 AM

The Trail to the Bondi Massacre

The shooting spree and mass murder of 15 people on Bondi Beach in Sydney at a Chanukah event on 14 December 2025 did not occur in a vacuum. It was a culmination of more than two years of vilification and demonisation of Jews and Israel,...

Jan 23, 2026, 7:17 PM

Gaza and the Return of Responsibility

For much of the past three decades, international conflict management has been governed by a comforting assumption: that enough process, inclusion and consensus will eventually substitute for authority. Declarations multiplied, mechanisms proliferated and conferences convened, even as outcomes stagnated. Nowhere has this gap between intention...

Jan 16, 2026, 6:10 PM

Israel Noticed What the Map Pretended Not to See

International relations often resemble a triumph of legal fiction over lived reality. We are asked to treat a collapsed state with no monopoly on violence as sovereign, while dismissing a peaceful, democratic, and administratively coherent polity as an inconvenient anomaly. The map is revered, even...

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