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Bring back Jewish Youth Counterculture
November 16, 2009 – 9:36 pm | 18 Comments
Bring back Jewish Youth Counterculture

By Joel Lazar
They sought like-minded youth, equally willing to devote their lives to a collective cause and thus, youth movements were born.

Why Brit Milah is Good for you and Davening can be Dangerous
November 12, 2009 – 6:29 pm | 62 Comments
Why Brit Milah is Good for you and Davening can be Dangerous

This article is the third in a series on the medical benefits (or otherwise) of Jewish food, culture, and religion. In this series, Liz Paratz peruses the medical literature for evidence-based answers to the big …

British Court Demonstrates Cultural Arrogance
November 11, 2009 – 3:30 pm | 17 Comments
British Court Demonstrates Cultural Arrogance

By Anthony Frosh
By now you may have read or heard about the British Supreme Court ruling against a Jewish Orthodox school. The court has ruled that the school is not permitted to define who is …

Hope for the Homeless
November 10, 2009 – 7:10 pm | 4 Comments
Hope for the Homeless

By Keren Tuch
Problems these days need creative solutions.  If young Jews in the Diaspora are assimilating, let’s send them on a free, ten day tour of Israel to encourage Zionism and procreation.  If Palestinians and …

Holocaust Commemoration 2.0: re-told, re-imagined, re-worked (Part 1)
November 9, 2009 – 11:51 am | 2 Comments
Holocaust Commemoration 2.0: re-told, re-imagined, re-worked (Part 1)

by Talia Katz
Part 1 of 2
My earliest memory of the ‘Holocaust’ is the living history project I was asked to create with the help of Olga, a kindly seventy year-old Polish woman.  I was eleven.  She told …

Anti-Semitism and the Media – an Interview with Michael Gawenda
November 4, 2009 – 7:20 pm | 24 Comments
Anti-Semitism and the Media – an Interview with Michael Gawenda

Interview and article by Sara K
Michael Gawenda, the author of Rocky and Gawenda: The Story of a Man and his Mutt, opened up to Galus Australis last week about his time as editor-in-chief at The …

Bad language in the Good Book
November 2, 2009 – 5:31 pm | 14 Comments
Bad language in the Good Book

By Simon Holloway
In a Sydney synagogue, a local rabbi delivered a sermon in which he criticised foul language as essentially not Jewish. I will not question the fact that classical Jewish literature eschewed scatological and …

Ask Izzy #4: Simcha Circle Conundrum
November 1, 2009 – 10:59 pm | 6 Comments
Ask Izzy #4: Simcha Circle Conundrum

Dear Izzy,
From time to time, I find myself invited to simchas in which I am not well acquainted with the hosts.  For example, in one case we were invited to a wedding where the connection …

The milchig-fleishig quandary and other Jewish and gastronomic medical observations
October 29, 2009 – 5:46 pm | 9 Comments
The milchig-fleishig quandary and other Jewish and gastronomic medical observations

This article is the second in a series on the medical benefits (or otherwise) of Jewish food, culture, and religion. In this series, Liz Paratz peruses the medical literature for evidence-based answers to the big …

This is not District 9
October 29, 2009 – 2:39 pm | 7 Comments
This is not District 9

By Larry Stillman
I saw the film last night but this is not District 9.
I write this in Johannesburg, out of touch with the latest “boat’ people crisis” back in Australia, but nonetheless very concerned.  Despite …

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Sydney, get your Arts on!

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 …

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At least the Maoists won’t be taking power – a global perspective

At least the Maoists won’t be taking power – a global perspective

By Keren Tuch
Whilst I detest listening to our leaders belittling one another in an act of political sabotage, the optimist in me is grateful that I live in a democracy with freedom of speech.  Whilst …

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Why the AJDS are right to support a limited boycott

Why the AJDS are right to support a limited boycott

By Larry Stillman
I’d like to argue the moral case for supporting a selective boycott of products from the Occupied West Bank. I take the view that it is illegally held territory in which its prior …

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Let the Shofar Take You Places

Let the Shofar Take You Places

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
May this year be a peaceful year.
A year of challenges that prompt us to discover energies that have perhaps hibernated within us and are ready to blossom.
Everyone wants a sweet new year. …

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