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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...

Michael Gencher

Sep 3, 2026, 4:55 AM

October 7 Did Not Create Antisemitism.

October 7 Did Not Create Antisemitism. It Released It from Embarrassment. At precisely 6.29am on October 7, we will gather again for StandWithUs Australia’s third annual dawn commemoration of the October 7 massacre. We first gathered at Bondi Beach in 2024,...

Aug 31, 2026, 6:39 PM

Nazi Imagery Has No Place in Politics

There is something deeply troubling about seeing Pauline Hanson depicted as Adolf Hitler. Whatever your view of Hanson or One Nation, political debate should not descend into Nazi imagery being used as a partisan political weapon. Hanson is not Adolf Hitler....

Sheldon Kirshner

Aug 16, 2026, 4:50 PM

A Place To Call Home

Bevan Lee's Australian television series, A Place To Call Home, definitely strikes a chord. A vibrant family drama consisting of 67 episodes, it is now available on the Amazon Prime platform. I was inexorably drawn into it from the very...

Talyah Ginsberg

Aug 6, 2026, 6:15 PM

An Australian Visa, a South African Alibi and an Israeli Home

My first trip abroad on an Israeli passport nearly ended at Ben Gurion. Sydney gave me back family, confidence and parts of myself I had misplaced—until an Uber driver asked one ordinary question. The first surprise of my enormous Australian...

Aug 1, 2026, 11:42 AM

Australian judicial inquiry final report finds police failures but no justice

The reality of the recently released New South Wales (NSW) Croatian Six inquiry report is unmistakable: Australia's justice system fundamentally failed six men and their community. Ironically, it may have also failed itself. At the same time, the presiding judge, Justice...

Marina Rosenberg

Aug 1, 2026, 9:57 AM

Antisemitism is now the baseline, not a spike

On the last night of Hanukkah, a gunman opened fire on a candle-lighting celebration on Bondi Beach, killing Rabbi Eli Schlanger and fourteen others. I had been in Sydney just a week earlier for the first-ever J7 Task Force Against Antisemitism Summit...

Talyah Ginsberg

Jul 29, 2026, 9:37 AM

Maftir, Mikveh and the Seagulls Who Observed No Boundaries

My father is a courteous man. This is why, before beginning the maftir on Shabbat, he did not turn around and announce, “If the gentlemen conducting the parallel service would care to finish first, the rest of us can...

Talyah Ginsberg

Jul 25, 2026, 9:32 AM

With All Your Heart…

This week’s parashah, Va’etchanan, contains one of the best-known instructions in Judaism and, on close inspection, one of the most unreasonable. “You shall love Hashem your G‑D with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might.” All...

Michael Gencher

Jul 23, 2026, 5:46 AM

The question I couldn’t answer

People gather outside the Adass Israel Synagogue, December 9, 2024, after a firebombing in Melbourne, Australia. (Con Chronis/AAP Image via AP)

For a long time, I assumed Australia's greatest challenge was recognizing antisemitism. Now, I think we see it, but rationalize it away before we confront it

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