General Feedback
Hi there,
At Galus Australis, we try to be open and accessible to our readers. Thus this is a section for readers to provide general and honest feedback on Galus as on online publication.
Tell us what you like; tell us what you don’t you like. Do you think we run too much of one type of article, not enough of another? Too high brow? Too low brow? Are our articles too short or too long? Do you think we live up to our ideals of providing a forum for diverse Jewish opinion, or are we just full of ourselves? Whatever is on your mind relating to Galus, here’s the place to let us know.
We can’t promise to act on everyone’s feedback, since for starters, everyone is bound to prefer something a little different; but we can promise to read, consider, and (where possible) to reply to all genuine feedback that we receive.
And of course, if you prefer to give feedback via email, you can always send an email to editorial at galusaustralis.com
Naturally, comments relating to specific articles should continue to be left in the comments section located underneath those articles.
Shalom Galus Australis,
I came upon your site by chance, but now you’re right there in my RSS feed, so I can make sure your content comes to me.
I especially enjoy reading the “Jewin’ the fat” posts and learning more about the Aussie perspective on Israel.
thanks.
Joel
Religion and State in Israel
@religion_state on Twitter
Dear all,
While deleting a comment by “Anonymous” that was a purely personal insult against an individual (thankfully, this is a very rare thing for us to have to do), we accidentally deleted another legitimate comment.
Unfortnately, our website’s backend does not easily allow us to detect what comment that was, who left it, or even what thread it was on.
If someone notices one of their comments missing, please email the editors, and we will try our best to recover and restore it.
Sincere apologies.
Frosh and Rachel SD – Just read Carmel’s Mishpacha magazine (it arrives late a little later here in US..
Mazel Tov!
it should be a “binyan adei ad”!
Rach SD has installed a new interface for leaving comments - so people will not have to rely on html in order to do things like add italics or bold typeface, or add links etc.
As these things can sometimes be a little browser-dependent etc, and while we’ve done some testing, please let us know if you are having any problems with it.
Hope everyone enjoys the new interface
I noticed that you can not leave line spaces between paragraph..
They get removed..
Chaim
I guess I was wrong… It did on my comment on a different thread…
It seems as though paragraph spacing in comments is working in some browsers and not others.
We’ll keep working on it.
Rach – do you secretly work for microsoft?
or apple?
or google?
No… I work in public health – it’s in my blurb on the contributors page
Re your recent article
Anti-religious prejudice – sadly, nothing new?
See http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1130956.html
Give us a chance
By Rony Paluch
Hi SBA,
This is a very interesting article you have linked to. You might want to also make this comment on the actual “Anti-religious prejudice – sadly, nothing new” article.
We’d be interested in someone writing an article on experiences of Charedim/Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the work place in Australia. We’d email you, but you did not supply an email address.
If you or anyone else out there is interested in writing such a piece, please email us.
I know the Orthodox Judaism and Homosexuality Article was closed…
But recently December 22, 2009, the YU Tolerance Club and Wurzweiler School of Social Work hosted an event entitled “Being Gay in the Orthodox World: A Conversation with Members of the YU Community.
http://curiousjew.blogspot.com/2009/12/being-gay-in-orthodox-world.html
if anyone is interested.
Mazel tov to Galus Australis on this special day!
And Mazel Tov to the wedding couple.. I even saw some pictures.
For those going to Limmud Oz on the Monday,
Here’s a panel session organised by Galus Australis,
The Jew Media
And here’s a tip: The AJN isn’t going to like it!
Hello editors – I’m a Johnny-come-lately to this but just want to tell you I like it!!
I won’t bore you with the reasons that after being a Jewish student activist and then an active Jewish feminist, I found myself highly disengaged from anything vaguely public in Jewish life for many years. I seem to have a renewed appetite for more public expression and discussion and I am really impressed with the forum you have created. One reflection – from now on if I comment I’m using my full name – not so keen on the anonymity.
Best wishes..Mandi Katz
Yur website is in general more left of centre than I am both politically and relgiously but, I enjoy reading it. The articles are mostly thought provoking and well written so I enjoy them even when I disagree.
In 1997 the University of Melbourne published a book called “History on the Edge” Essays in memory of John Foster 1944-1994, edited by Mark Baker whose very interesting article in Galus Australis on the Gay Holocaust Monument in Berlin I was led to from Michael Barnett’s blog.
I was extremely disappointed to find the comments section now closed at the end of the essay, because I had plenty to add to the debate.
In the book mentioned above, Mark Baker included an essay by Konrad Kwiet titled ‘ Jews and Homosexuals: Fragments from the Life of Kitty Fischer’
Kitty and I became friends when we met for the first time when a proposal was put forward by a few gay people in Sydney to erect in Sydney a Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial.
Kitty was an Auschwitz child Holocaust survivor (she and her sister survived and they saw their parents being led to their deaths in Auschwitz)and their lives were saved in the camp by a man with a pink triangle.
Hers was a very sad and moving story and Kitty never forgot that gay man in Auschwitz whose fate she didn’t ever subsequently hear about.
Kitty remained a friend to the gay and lesbian communities until her death from leukaemia in 2001 at the age of 73.
Mark’s story about his trip to Berlin is very interesting and it is a pity that the postings to his article contained so much venom from people who are homophobic because their religion “says it is so.”
Many survivors asked where their god was while those around them were being murdered in the death camps and stopped believing in a deity thereafter.
As an 83-year-old gay Jewish South African I have seen all the horrors of a police state and Jewish persecution which would have been worse if it wasn’t for the fact that Israel wanted uranium and South Africa was enriching it, so they worked together on nuclear research and we all know what the outcome was.
Prejudice and discrimination are alive and well and living in Australia where ageism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination are daily features.
Gay bashings, discrimination and murder still occur on a regular basis and many of the reasons are because of religious intolerance and hate speech.
The postings on Mark’s article were typical examples of it all, and we are still fighting for equality with a long fight still ahead.
Mannie De Saxe, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, Melbourne