Articles in Arts and Culture
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 …
Chagall and Lipchitz go to Church
By Aaron Rosen
When Father Marie-Alain Couturier invited Jacques Lipchitz to contribute a baptismal font for a new Church in Assy, France in 1946, the artist was puzzled. Perhaps, the sculptor delicately responded, the priest was …
A Tarantino Purim?
By Liz Paratz
In the story of Purim, Haman is a clear descendant of Amalek and the ‘bad guy’. The mission conducted by Esther and Mordechai to expose Haman and save the Jews is completely successful …
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