3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (524+ words) It is a safe bet that few readers or writers of Spectator Australia have derived much value from the millions of taxpayer dollars lavished on Australian writers" festivals over the years. This week, however, Adelaide Writers" Week delivered explosive entertainment....

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (936+ words) Why can't a Jewish MP visit his local school?The Spectator Australia Why can't a Jewish MP visit his local school? Ruth Wisse defines anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as "the organisation of politics against the Jews', and in Britain it is…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (786+ words) I finally visited Bondi Beach 10 years ago when I was generously hosted by the Jewish community of Hadassah Australia. I found Australia to be a place of awe-inspiring beauty, jaw-dropping coastlines, astonishing November Jacaranda trees, and an innocence which had…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (709+ words) On Bondi Beach, Jews celebrating that freedom were attacked and murdered. This was not "senseless violence" " the very phrase stupefies us into passivity, unable to name, identify and deal with the specific hatred behind it. This was a calculated attack…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (234+ words) The attack at Bondi beach during a Hanukkah celebration, killing nine, has sent a fresh wave of horror through the Jewish diaspora. What might once have been regarded as unthinkable " a targeted assault on a Jewish gathering in the heart…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (238+ words) How many of those sweaty music fans clocked the horror of what was happening on stage? Yet surely no one will defend what Primal Scream did at the Roundhouse in Camden on Monday? Surely even those craven excuse-makers for Jew-baiting,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (391+ words) Being born, shall we say, under a different star, there are no official Christmas celebrations in our house. Sure, it's a welcome opportunity to gather the family and " being a Jewish mother " feed the assembled tribe until they can't speak....

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (608+ words) Pastor Martin Niem'ller's words from Nazi Germany are uncomfortably relevant: "Then they came for the Christians, and I did not speak out " because I was not a Christian. "Then they came for me " and there was no one left to…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (129+ words) The Reverend Michael Coren Early in its history, the church removed the Jewish Jesus from the Christian narrative Much has changed since then, with the development of Christian Zionism (not always helpful) and a post-Holocaust theology that emphasises the Jewish…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (422+ words) Around sixty Jewish doctors, including senior consultants and general practitioners, have left or are planning to leave the British Medical Association. Their decision is not a fleeting protest, but a serious response to'what they consider to be'a deeper institutional malaise…...