My profile of the brilliant violinist Joshua Bell in The Monthly just out. (And I wonder if my colleagues can guess at the circumstances under which I wrote it, that would have made a baby journo panic and a pro swear out loud.) #music #classicalmusic themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/oct…

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Officials in Israel screened footage of the Hamas attack for the press, Graeme Wood reports. “What we shared with you, you should know it,” one official said. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Actually the Jewish Community finds it incredibly insensitive to fly a Palestinian flag within weeks of the worst massacre of Jews since the holocaust. We mourn innocent Palestinian victims - their suffering is on Hamas’ conscience. Please don’t speak for us.

Imagine telling yourself in 2013 that in 10 years time, the Germans will be cancelling the "Anne Frank Kindergarten" because of ..... "Diversity"

A longstanding Jewish Sydney Theatre Company board member Judi Hausmann has resigned from the company, telling executives she was ‘devastated’ after Saturday’s onstage pro-Palestine protest by actors: theaustralian.com.au/nation/devasta…

I saw this list online and was a bit disappointed that I wasn't mention on it. I'm 89 years old and still active.

“We are in disbelief and mourning as we learn the terribly sad news about Maurizio Pollini’s passing. One of the truly great and groundbreaking musicians of our time has left us. His achievements in the field of modernist and contemporary music as well as in the classical and

RIP Maurizio Pollini 1942-2024 Chopin - Notturno Op.27 nr. 2 Thanks Nucci Pollarolo 🙏🏻

A reminder that when journalists want to talk about perpetrators of domestic violence against women ... there is one particularly notorious group of murderers & captors of defenceless women & rapists who go strangely unmentioned ...

Very grateful to The Daily Telegraph for this morning publishing me on the contribution of Australia's Jews & my philippic against societally cancerous anti-Semitism. I urge fellow Gentiles to speak up for our Australia that has always been a haven for Jews & must not disappear✡️🇦🇺

💥Eastern Nato allies discuss barring Hungary from their Bucharest 9 security club, officials tell Financial Times, after running out of patience with Orban’s support for Russia ft.com/content/63a5dd… @ft

Today would have been Anne Frank's 95th birthday. History is always closer than we think it is.

Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon) by Albert Gleizes guggenheim.org/artwork/1444

I just saw a woman on tik tok saying we should take a second to appreciate that this is the first time in history the media has considered a woman in her 50’s young. 🤣

I remember.

Breaking News: Maggie Smith, the award-winning British actor whose memorable roles ranged from the Hogwarts School’s stern but fearless teacher in the Harry Potter movies to the acid-tongued dowager countess on “Downton Abbey,” has died at 89. nyti.ms/3XYKQ2f

I was lucky enough to see her in live on stage in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, in the height of her theatrical career. She was magic. RIP

This looks like the first #auslaw case in which a solicitor has been referred to the professional regulator for submitting AI generated written subs which contained "hallucinations" (aka authorities which do not actually exist): jade.io/article/1092470

We at the Review mourn the loss of Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. theparisreview.org/interviews/228…