Articles in Community Life
First Milestone Achieved for the Free Jewish Education Movement
By Jonny Schauder
The Background and Vision
Back in August last year, I published my first article on Galus Australis about working with Glen Eira College. The article was part of a strategy to improve the services …
How Healthy is Your Body?
By Michelle Coleman
Your peak body that is. For Victorians, this is the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV).
Is it really ‘the voice of Victorian Jewry’? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? Is …
When it Comes to Intermarriage, ‘Experts’ Confuse Cause and Effect
In an article first published in the New Jersey Jewish News, Paul Golin argues that fear of intermarriage is not a logical reason to fund Jewish day schools. It is equally relevant to the Australian …
Government Inquiry into Child Abuse is Welcome and Overdue
By Manny Waks
As a former victim of sexual abuse within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, I welcome the Baillieu Government’s decision to launch a wide-ranging inquiry into how religious organisations in Victoria have handled child abuse …
Chametz Drive
By Joel Lazar
Chametz (loosely defined as: leavened food products; grains) has always been the poor sod to draw the short straw. It’s a Shakespearean tragedy of biblical proportions. Every year the season of freedom arrives in …
The Mountain Ahead
By Kovi Rose
They say that when climbing a mountain one should never look down; but I think that the danger of looking up, and realizing how much more of the climb is still ahead of …
Religion in Schools is about Fairness, says UJEB
With the current controversy concerning religion in state schools, UJEB has released the following press release that will likely be of interest to many of our readers:
The United Jewish Education Board (UJEB) today expressed support …
The Mainstream Jewish Leadership is out of Touch with Progressive Young Jews
By Max Kaiser
Research recently commissioned by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society shows the mainstream community is seriously out of step with the views of many Jewish young people.
In the research report, 13 people under the …
For Your To-Do List
By Yossi Goldfarb
Are the summer holidays too long or too short? My children will convincingly tell me just how short they are, while my wonderful wife, who does the lion’s share of child-minding while I …
New President Hopes to Grow UJEB
Articles about Jewish education, particularly those concerning making Jewish education more affordable, always resonate with the majority of our readers. Hence we are publishing this press release we received today from The United Jewish Education …
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