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By Keren Tuch
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It’s that time of year again, where I surrender my active lifestyle for sitting …
By Anthony Frosh
Last night I went along with RachSD to see the new film by the Coen brothers, A Serious Man. On a night where we experienced weather that had an almost biblical feel – …
By Jewin’ the fat
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
John Safran is arguably Australia’s King …
“Remembrance of things past” is an extract from Michael Gawenda’s latest book, Rocky and Gawenda, published by Melbourne University Press.
Michael will appear at Monash University (Caulfield) tonight, in conversation with James Button about his journalistic …
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John Safran Gets Busy with Cross-Cultural Love.
Pasty bespectacled comic John Safran is coming back to ABC TV with an …
Andrew Harris from Melbourne’s elsewhere promotions spoke to Brooklyn-based DJ Diwon about his two new records, Serene Poetic and The Sabra Sessions. Diwon is the dynamo behind Shemspeed (a very hip, diverse website dedicated to …
By Anthony Frosh
WARNING: The following article is best suited to those who have already seen the film Inglourious Basterds, currently screening in Australian cinemas. The article (or follow-up comments) may contain spoilers; so …
The Hebrew Bible should be taught like a foreign language, argues Assoc. Prof. Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, endorsing Avraham Ahuvia’s recently-launched translation of the Old Testament into what Zuckermann calls high-register “Israeli”.
In 1996 President Ezer Weizman visited …
By Howard Goldenberg
“…there’s been a death”
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I am in my small house in Yulara, cooking for shabbat on a Friday in December 2006, when the phone rings. A male voice speaks: It’s Sergeant Benjamin, doctor, of …
by Howard Goldenberg
On November 9, 1938, Heinrich Korn is nine years old.
William Cooper is 77 years old.
Shaike Snir has not yet been born.
Heinrich Korn and his family are proud Germans. Heinrich’s father is proud to …
