7 October 2023, one year ago, was a special Shabbat called Simcha Torah that celebrates the end of the annual Torah reading cycle. In Israel, I was re…
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Middle East War – Is Biblical Prophecy Being Fulfilled?
Just over two months ago, at the beginning of October, the Jewish people began the year 5785 in the Hebrew calendar. By that time the State of Israel…
False Starts, Lamb Chops and Unwanted Stops
Prayer For Israel—Australia, in Israel September 2024 The days between the 16th-27…
Time to reform the United Nations
If you haven’t experienced the epic congestion of New York during United Nations week, count yourself lucky. If you have, you know the inverse correla…
Anzacs, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran – is there a connection?
Semach & Hezbollah rockets over the Galilee On 25 September 1918 the Australia…
Embassy News
Dear Friends, One year ago, on the 5th of October, I drove from Tel Aviv to Kibbut…
Stories of Faith
Following the brutal 1973 Yom Kippur war, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau journeyed to New York to visit the Rabbi M. M. Schneerson obm…
It’s Death by a Thousand Cuts as Australia Abandons Persecuted Israel
As small children growing up in Melbourne, we remember lining up outside the huge display windows of the Myers department store at Christmas, wide-eye…
Legal Aspects of Possible ICC Arrest Warrants
ICC Prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, sparking controversy over jurisdiction, political bias, and potential antisemitism.
Is the Church Asleep on Watch?
When I was in the army on patrol after arriving at our designated camp for the night, we would immediately set up our defensive perimeter and in conjunction with this, set up what was called a picquet line.
Israel is Far More than the“Canary in the Coalmine”
The Israel versus Hamas war is not a regional conflict as some would proclaim, it has well and truly spilled out onto the global stage. For example, due to the Iranian backed Houthis based in Yemen firing rockets
“Me Too!” Unless… You’re a Jew
In September 2012, Steven Pinker released his New York Times bestseller “Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”. The book presents a compelling argument for the decline of violence, particularly sexual violence, through various historical trends in war.