Discover the dangers of labelling people, politics, and identity. Explore the parallels between today's witch hunts and the Red Scare. Read more.

The Hunt For The Last Nazis documentary exposes Australia's post-war immigration policy and the need for fact-based conversations on immigration.

The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers' Week raises questions about free speech and hypocrisy in social justice movements.

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Some treatments have little evidence to support their use and others risk adverse effects. Yet IVF add-ons are regularly offered to desperate patients.

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The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission.

Most people who’ve been to therapy know the rule about the word “should”. It always needs to be unpacked. Who says you “should” do something? Why “should” you? As a woman, I don’t feel safe walking on the street late at night on my own. This lack of…

Last updated: 11 October 2024 Growing up in a house with lawyer parents and then going into the professional world I chose working in newsrooms, debate is inherent part of who I am, made stronger by my desire not to surround myself with people who…

It may be that Melbourne’s recent run of exceptional children’s theatre has left us spoiled, but this production of Josephine Wants to Dance – based on the iconic book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley – felt like a ballet with no bounce. It started…

I grew up in a very tightly-knit Jewish expat community overseas, followed by three years in a boarding house at a non-Jewish school in Australia, with girls who mostly came from rural and regional Victoria and New South Wales. In Australia, I didn’t…

It takes a big person to beg for forgiveness. But it takes an even bigger one to realise they’re not entitled to it There’s something deeply attractive about someone who can acknowledge when they’ve stuffed up and offer a genuine apology. As human…

Photo of Grug: Supplied. For any fan of the Grug books by Ted Prior, the joy is in the simplicity. It’s also in the brevity, if you’re a parent reading your child a book at night. This production of Grug by Windmill Theatre Company is not new; back…

There are so many parenting pitfalls worse than mere embarrassment. Accidental vandalism seems almost quaint – unless you’re a 3,500 year-old pot “Does there ever come a time where you’re not embarrassed by your kids’ behaviour?” I asked my friends…

Last updated: 8 August 2024 It will never cease to amaze me that when two people look at an object, they can experience two radically different associations. That’s because it’s not just beauty that’s in the eye of the beholder, it’s also context and…

July 18, 2024 — 7.00pm , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I remember being wheeled into the operating theatre. I started shivering almost…

Last updated: 8 July 2024 This is the fourth instalment of a six-part series, Be Fruitful: Fertility Journeys in Modern Jewish Lives, which explores the complex and sometimes taboo journey to parenthood in the Jewish community. Just because you…

The name of the show, The Blue Dot, was a nod to the NASA photograph of Earth, taken on Valentine’s Day 1990 by Voyager 1, around six billion kilometres from the sun. As a point of trivia, it served as inspiration for Carl Sagan’s 1994 book Pale Blue…

As many public schools struggle to make ends meet, it’s baffling to see private schools receiving the bulk of government funding I didn’t send my first born kid to a public school because it’s free. He goes to a public school because his parents…