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Six reasons why you might already be keeping kosher

February 6, 2012 – 9:31 pm | One Comment

By Robert Efraim Bel
So you only buy kosher meat, stay away from crustaceans, never mix meat and milk, and always check the food labels. You try your best but all this is of course a …

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Simchat Torah – Fight Night

October 11, 2009 – 9:43 pm | 4 Comments

by Anthony Frosh
Walking the 3.5km down Balaclava Rd from east of Caulfield Park to Hotham St, circa midnight Simchat Torah, there were plenty of intoxicated members of the community to be seen.  Happily, most of …

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Inglourious Basterds – Enthralling, but lacking in Jewish content

September 29, 2009 – 10:20 am | 14 Comments

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 …

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Jewish St Kilda Football Club Heretics

September 22, 2009 – 12:05 pm | 17 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
It’s an unfortunate happenstance that the Jewish High Holidays frequently coincide with the AFL finals. I am ‘fortunate’ enough this year to be supporting a team that failed to qualify for the finals, …

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The Loewenstein Aficionado Test

September 15, 2009 – 7:39 pm | 25 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Antony Loewenstein (A-Lo) is launching the 3rd edition of his book, “My Israel Question.”  So unfortunately we can expect to hear and see him in the media ramping up his own publicity.  He’ll …

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Recently Departed Editor of the AJN Talks to Galus Australis

September 3, 2009 – 6:54 pm | 18 Comments

By Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis
Ashley Browne has recently finished a 2.5 year stint as the editor of the Australian Jewish News. Before he joined the AJN team, Ashley had been the managing-editor of Sportal …

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Non-Zionism: an Under-Recognised Non-Position

August 30, 2009 – 4:47 pm | 59 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
In the current political discourse of the Jewish Diaspora, we often see the Zionist camp pitted against the anti-Zionist camp.  This dyad is of course a gross reduction of the diversity of opinion …

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ACMA says ‘OK’ to Hezbollah, but ‘No Way’ to Lezbollah

August 24, 2009 – 11:03 pm | 3 Comments

Hezbollah comes to the Idiot Box
by Anthony Frosh
Many of our readers are by now aware that Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s ‘television wing’ is coming back to Australian screens, at least for those with satellite dishes and …

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Major Shake-up at the AJN

August 23, 2009 – 10:46 am | 25 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Here is another major story of which The Australian Jewish News is yet to inform the community.
At the close of this week the AJN and its national editor, Ashley Browne, will part ways.
Speculation …

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner!

August 20, 2009 – 10:16 pm | 13 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
When we created Galus Australis, we were determined not to become a trashy tabloid.  However, very occasionally we might suffer a lapse in our journalistic integrity.  This is one of those occasions.
As some …

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One Jimmy Carter is Already Too Many

August 12, 2009 – 9:45 am | 8 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Malcolm Fraser’s whitewash of Hamas in The Age (August 11th 2009) is a cheap and desperate attempt to maintain a modest public profile.  Not only is his Hamas advocacy piece poorly written, but it …

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