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It wasn’t a banner headline. In fact, chances are you may have skimmed right past it when the news first appeared.

On November 12, 2025, the very last penny was minted at the Philadelphia Mint, bringing an end to production of the familiar…

In October 1845, the Hebrew Congregation of Sydney did something both profoundly ordinary and quietly radical at the time. It petitioned the colonial government.

The request was measured. The language was civic. For fourteen years, the…

Chris Minns received a standing ovation at the Bondi memorial last night. It was a moment of solemnity and shared grief. In such moments, applause is not performance. It is release.

But it is worth asking, what, precisely, was being…

My first Christmas Day was on Bondi Beach. It was 1959 and  I was ten months old. My older brother Jeff, born in Cairo, was eating a vegemite sandwich while I sat in my playpen on the sand, watching. A Sydney Morning Herald photographer…

Bondi Beach still glows at sunset. The cafés hum. The ocean rolls in as if nothing has changed. Jews know better than to confuse scenery with safety. Normal life can look perfectly intact—right up until it is not.

Australia is nearing that…