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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?
More debate please – Pluralist panel offers too much agreement
By Yaakov Gorr
Parsha Korach is a great reminder that Judaism is known for its great debates and great debaters – not only debates between Moshe and Korach but debates between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael, …
Limmud Oz meets Appetite for Diversity
By Sol Salbe
Like Melbourne’s weather, Limmud Oz provides a great deal of variety. If you don’t like something, just step in next door or wait a short while for the next session. With twelve simultaneous …
The Missing Generation of Limmud Oz
By Samara Hersch
Last weekend, as the Queen celebrated another year of her life, I celebrated my own Jewish life and identity at the Limmud Oz festival of Jewish learning and culture in Melbourne. I attended …
An Anti-Climax at the End of the World
By John Zeleznikow
For those holocaust survivors who were interred in concentration camps in occupied Nazi Europe between 1939 and 1945, life in post-war Melbourne was blissfully pleasant. They had successfully escaped to what they perceived …
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 …
Bald Rebel Swallowed by the Earth
By David Werdiger
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad/Lubavitch movement, had a favourite saying, “One should live with the times”. His intent was not that Judaism should be adapted to fit the times. …
Bored to Death
By Keren Tuch
Oh the irony, that so many Israelis dream of nothing else but to live in utopic Australia, whilst others, myself included, consider living in a war torn country where peace is a seemingly …
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