Articles in Arts and Culture
The Social Network of Jews and WASPs
By Larry Stillman Some films are best understood by insiders, and The Social Network is a case in point. This is not to say that its story and message cannot be greatly enjoyed by outsiders, …
Book Censorship at Mount Scopus College
Amid claims of censorship at Mount Scopus College concerning the book Dancing in the Dark, we asked Mt Scopus principal, Rabbi James Kennard, as well as the book’s author Robyn Bavati, to write about their perspectives. …
Yes, Jews do Camp
By Keren Tuch
I was telling a friend about a rejuvenating weekend camping I enjoyed in Australia’s beautiful nature. Although he expressed interest in coming on future camping trips, he remained a little surprised because, as …
The Hijacking of Lion FM
Amid reports of widespread volunteer dissatisfaction, bullying, and a lack of accountability and transparency at Lion FM, Bram Presser, a Lion FM presenter until controversially cut last week, explains that the station urgently needs rescuing …
Sydney, get your Arts on!
By Janis Seftel
“It was great. Really good vibe. But it didn’t really feel like anyone my age was there. I told my friends about it, but I guess people had things on.”
If you’re young, artsy …
Jewish and Indigenous Australians working together
By Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin
It is not an uncommon part of the human experience for casual conversations and chance encounters to launch us in a new direction or to begin an extraordinary …
Education for Education’s Sake
By Emma Schwarcz
If you take all of Jewish history – all 5000-odd years of it – and whittle it down so that it can fit on four large stretches of butcher paper, and you stick …
Shalom Aleichem, Sholem Aleichem
By Daniel Ari Baker
Happily and unexpectedly, Limmud Oz took me far away from Monash Caulfield and deep into Eastern Europe; on Sunday 13 June, I rode a train with Sholem Aleichem through turn-of-the-century Ukraine with …
A Debt to Chaim Potok
Dancing in the Dark – an author’s debt to Chaim Potok
by Robyn Bavati
When I was in my teens, the book industry in Australia wasn’t the thriving one it is today. Almost all the books I …
Reclaiming Native Language Title Rights
By Ghil’ad Zuckermann
‘I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and …
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