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When a Kiss Means Death
By Mark Baker
In the centre of Berlin not far from the Brandenburg gates there is a memorial to the Holocaust made up of thousands of slab tombstones. The group of students I am guiding through …
People of the Boat – A Jewish Perspective on the Asylum Seeker Issue
By Mandi Katz
The Prime Minister has called for an open debate on policy for addressing the asylum seeker issue. I hope that Jewish experience as refugees and forced migrants finds a strong voice in this …
Jewish Engagement – That’s the point!
By Ittay Flescher
Simon Green recently posed a challenging question on Galus Australis entitled “Jewish Continuity – What’s the point?” In it, he argued that too many people are asking the wrong question by focusing on ”How do we keep the kids …
Whither the Tribe of Levi
By David Werdiger
It’s a common scene in a Shul on Shabbat. Shortly before the reading of the Torah, the gabbai (that fellow who makes sure all the parts of the shul service that have to …
Bigotry in the Suburbs
By Simon Holloway
As some readers may be aware, the St Ives Jewish community has been petitioning the construction of an eruv for over two years now. A symbolic perimeter around an area, the building of …
Julia Gillard – A Jewish Plot
By Anthony Frosh
The great thing about Facebook is that you learn that you are only two degrees of separation from people for whom The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not a fabrication, but …
Jewish Continuity – What’s the Point?
By Simon Green
Recently on Galus Australis, Samara Hersch wrote about the “Missing Generation of Limmud Oz”. She expressed disappointment that she was part of only a handful of under-30s at the three-day festival of Jewish …
Not Sent From My iPad
By Simon Holloway
I don’t care how popular the iPad becomes, or even the ubiquitous E Ink devices: nothing will ever replace the joy of holding a book. The tactile and olfactory feast that is an …
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 …
Are Jewish Women Condemned to Hard Labour?
By Liz Paratz
Fast-forward a few thousand years and if we are condemned to ‘bring forth children in sorrow’, why do even the most religious of Jewish women use pain-relief in childbirth?
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