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How Healthy is Your Body?

May 16, 2012 – 7:33 pm | 9 Comments

By Michelle Coleman
Your peak body that is. For Victorians, this is the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV).
Is it really ‘the voice of Victorian Jewry’? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? Is …

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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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The Absurdity of the Boycott

July 19, 2009 – 11:03 am | 5 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
By now you have probably read on Galus Australis and/or the Australian Jewish News that filmmaker Ken Loach is threatening a boycott of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), unless MIFF terminates sponsorship …

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The Trivialisation of Denialism – Climate Theories vs. Holocaust Fact

July 15, 2009 – 11:08 pm | 9 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
In recent times, the climate change debate has become highly topical.  It wasn’t always this way.  The first time I ever heard about this thing called the “greenhouse effect” was in 1989.  I …

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Jews in Pop-culture: a Critical Examination Part II

July 9, 2009 – 11:52 pm | 7 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
NCIS is not first class drama.  The plots are quite often formulaic, and the acting is often melodramatic.  Nevertheless, it has the rare distinction of being the only mainstream network show (we …

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Jews in Pop-culture: a Critical Examination Part 1

June 28, 2009 – 10:15 pm | 29 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
There is a tremendously interesting documentary titled Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies & The American Dream (1997).  Amongst other things, the film touches on the portrayal of Jews on the big screen. If memory serves, …

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BRW Rich List – nothing to kvell over.

June 21, 2009 – 10:37 am | 23 Comments

By Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis
One thing that gets our goat is when people in the Jewish community kvell over the over-representation of Jews in the BRW rich list.   Google BRW and AJN, and you …

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Ode to the Moshiach Dancers

June 18, 2009 – 10:44 pm | 21 Comments

By Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis
Living in the heart of St Kilda East, a mere ball throw from any Lubavitcher yeshiva in Melbourne, there are few things that give us as much joy as the …

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Calling on all signatories

June 18, 2009 – 10:16 pm | 45 Comments

By Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis
To the 170 signatories to the petition calling on Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard to cancel her planned visit to Israel, we understand that you believe that Israel is not …

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