Articles in Politics and Media
By Anthony Frosh
Antony Loewenstein (A-Lo) is launching the 3rd edition of his book, “My Israel Question.” So unfortunately we can expect to hear and see him in the media ramping up his own publicity. He’ll …
By Philip Mendes
As discussed in my previous article on this website, it would appear on the surface that anti-Zionism has become a growing and significant phenomenon in Jewish life. However, in reality, anti-Zionists remain a …
By Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis
Ashley Browne has recently finished a 2.5 year stint as the editor of the Australian Jewish News. Before he joined the AJN team, Ashley had been the managing-editor of Sportal …
By Jewin’ the fat
My brother-in-law announced quite casually one Friday night that he was planning to run 100km in under 24 hours. Through the bush. All in one go. At first, our family went through …
By Anthony Frosh
In the current political discourse of the Jewish Diaspora, we often see the Zionist camp pitted against the anti-Zionist camp. This dyad is of course a gross reduction of the diversity of opinion …
by Philip Mendes
In the last five years, close to ten major books have been published on Jewish anti-Zionists and other Jewish critics of Israel. Specific Jewish groups promoting one-sided critiques of Israel such as …
Hezbollah comes to the Idiot Box
by Anthony Frosh
Many of our readers are by now aware that Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s ‘television wing’ is coming back to Australian screens, at least for those with satellite dishes and …
By Anthony Frosh
Here is another major story of which The Australian Jewish News is yet to inform the community.
At the close of this week the AJN and its national editor, Ashley Browne, will part ways.
Speculation …
By Philip Mendes
The following article is adapted from Philip Mendes’ address to the Jewish Community (JCCV) interfaith relations forum, Tuesday 5 May 2009
Six years ago I wrote a report on my experiences in the Australasian …
Gary Mallin, sub-editor at The Age, outlines the newspaper’s editorial process.
The criteria for what makes a story for the newspaper is subjective: what one person believes to be a good story, another might consign to …
