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I’m mourning my Australian identity.

Israel is my mission, but Australia was my peace. It was a silent anchor that kept me grounded when life felt untethered. It was the only place where I didn’t have to be a “Zionist,” a “Jew” or…

Dedicated to the victims of the horrific antisemitic attack on the first night of Chanukah in Bondi Beach, Australia. As reflected in the article below, their deaths connect our generation to the enduring story of faith and spiritual…

Since Oct 7th, Gaza has become one of the most discussed places on Earth. Most observers view Gaza as inherently and unquestionably Palestinian, and any Jewish claim or sentiment toward it is dismissed as extremism, expansionism, or part of a…

The holiday of Hanukkah stands out amongst other holidays on the Jewish calendar. Directly linked to service in the Holy Temple, Hanukkah was celebrated as a rejection of the impurity that the Greeks sought to impose within the temple…

The happiest moments of youth’s fleeting hours

We’ve past neath the shade of these time-honored walls.

And sorrows as transient as April’s brief showers

Have clouded our lives in Brunonia’s halls.

The final verse of Brown’s Alma…

As this year comes to a close, the violence that struck a Jewish community in Sydney during a Chanukah celebration forces a clarity many have resisted. Chanukah is not just a holiday of light. It is the most Zionist holiday on the calendar,…

To secure both the Red Sea and democracy itself, Israel and the West must stand with free peoples of faith not with forces that would silence them.

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse

In a world where dictators disguise themselves as democrats and…

A Holocaust survivor shielding his wife during a Hanukkah attack exposes how the world’s oldest hatred adapts to modern democracies, and what Jewish continuity and civic responsibility now demand.

He was a Holocaust survivor.
She was his…

Even though the holiday of Chanukah is from the Rabbis, the Sefer Hatoda’ah brings a few hints to this holiday from the Torah.
The first hint comes from counting the words from the beginning of the Torah. The twenty-fifth word from…

“Globalize the Intifada” Is the Globalization of Moral Collapse

The slogan “Globalize the Intifada” is often defended as rhetoric, metaphor, or radical speech. That defense collapses the moment we look at history and at the real-world…