No, not the Rugby league team, but the State Parliament. The most interesting outcome of last weekend’s NSW State election was not the resounding strength of the Liberal win, but rather the resounding extent of the Greens loss.  The electoral campaign post-mortem of the Greens will no doubt share all the hallmarks of the one they undertook for the recent Victorian State election.  [...]

In the last three days more than 70 Kassam and Grad missiles were fired into Israel from the Gaza strip.   My prediction:  Israel will respond to this repeated assault on its civilian population.  The media will fire up as soon as Israel does respond, and blame Israel as the aggressor. Judging by a recent article that was [...]

i- shacharit – measures the time it takes to daven shacharit in all Shules within a 5 KM radius i-drasha – gives you mussar when you are not really in the mood i – herring – measures the temperature of the herring on the Kiddush table and lets you know how long it has been [...]

Once again the West Australian has run an article that disguises the truth about what is happening in Israel. Five members of a family were brutally murdered (warning, pictures on link are very disturbing). Rabbi Udi Vogel was 38 years old, and his wife Ruth Vogel was 35. They were bludgeoned to death along withtheir sons [...]

A Look Into The Future It is the month of Adar, 1911, exactly 100 years ago.  A family is sitting at the Shabbat table cast with shadows of yellow light.  There is an oil lamp on one side of the room, and Shabbat candles on the other.   The family has recited Kiddush and is eating [...]