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Australian in line for al-Qaeda Top Job
By Anthony Frosh
An Australian has been named as one of the potential replacements for the recently deceased al-Qaeda chairperson, Osama bin Laden. Fiona Byrne, current mayor of Marrickville, is apparently on the short list to …
We need Jewish Continuity, not Organisational Territoriality
By Manny Waks
In the article, Give Us the Tools to Define Our Involvement, Joshua Einstein cogently articulates the major challenges and obstacles inherent in the global predicament of Jewish continuity. The term “continuity” is ubiquitous …
Welcome to the good life: Snores, chores, bores and much mores
By Kovi Rose
Its 3:00am and I am woken by the sound of my roommate from Minnesota snoring like a disgruntled boar. He has said to me in the past that I should wake him up …
Blurring the Humanitarian Welcome Mat
Continuing with our Pesach theme of asylum seekers and refugees, Malki Rose attended the launch of the ‘People Smugglers: Friend or Foe?’ exhibit now showing at the Jewish Museum of Australia.
Americans refer to them as …
It’s Time for all People to have their Festival of Freedom
By Keren Tuch
In a couple of days time we will be reciting the familiar Hebrew song from the Passover Haggadah “Avadim hayinu ata b’nei chorin – We were once slaves, but now we are free.” …
And you shall relate to your son
By David Werdiger
והגדת לבנך – שמות יג”ח
And you shall relate to your son – Exodus 13:8
As Pesach approaches, preparations go into full swing, and my mind jumps around between where we will …
Victorian Greens dealing with Levitical Leprosy
By Yaakov Gorr
Whilst Shabbos shul-goers were leyning Parashat Metzora, the Victorian Greens were in their State Conference and dealing with a leprosy of a different kind. A representative of the Greens’ NSW branch had been …
Tales from Rural Australia to Crown Heights
Matthue Roth reviews Goldie Goldbloom’s new book, You Lose These and Other Stories
Take the first two stories in Goldie Goldbloom’s new book You Lose These, a collection of short stories. No, I mean it: Take …
Form one Planet: HIStory or MYstory
By Malki Rose
If there is one broyges bigger than who has ownership of certain clumps of the Middle East, it’s who has ownership of the most accurate account of its history. If the holy books …
Letters to Editor – Responses to Mendes
Below are two slightly abbreviated versions of two lengthy responses we received in regard to the latest article by regular Galus contributor, Prof. Philip Mendes , Advocating Peace or Promoting Conflict and Discrimination? The Strange …
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