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It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like a Jew on Christmas

December 3, 2009 – 12:09 am | 22 Comments

by Sibella Stern

I beat John Safran to the Filipino punch. I just want everyone to know that. (And I didn’t need a Spielberg-style budget or cast of thousands to get my kicks at the cost …

A Jew goes to Burma

August 3, 2009 – 9:00 pm | 6 Comments

by Sibella Stern

Burmese demographics are mind boggling; in a land heavily devoted to Buddhism, you will nevertheless be woken every morning by the Muslim call to prayer. Your 16 hour bus ride (which you …

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Jewish and Indigenous Australians working together

By Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin
It is not an uncommon part of the human experience for casual conversations and chance encounters to launch us in a new direction or to begin an extraordinary …

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By Anthony Frosh
In a letter to Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) President Rabbi Yaakov Glasman, Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria (COSV) President Paul Korbl has called on the Rabbis of the RCV to issue …

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Are The Greens Kosher?

By Arielle Perlow and Ittay Flescher
The Rabbis of the Talmud teach us there are 70 faces to the Torah. Is it possible that one of them is green? Many Jews in Australia believe in the …

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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 …

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