By Rivqa Berger
I know an organ recipient who believes that organ donation is halachically prohibited. Generally I consider myself a fairly tolerant person, but if I saw him in the street I wouldn’t even say …

By Peter Wertheim
The ECAJ/ORA submission does not purport to contain a complete proposal for an alternative system to the present regime of self-regulation. On the contrary, the final paragraph suggests that if a fair and …

By Rachel Sacks-Davis
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) and the Organisation of Rabbis Australasia (ORA) have made their submission available on the ECAJ website.
For those who do not want to read the entire document, …

By Rachel Sacks-Davis
In a move that can only be interpreted as anti-competitive, Kosher Australia and associates have applied to the government for exclusive rights to decide who can label a product, ‘kosher’. As reported in …

By Alex Kats
For me, Pesach has always been the most unifying of holidays. Even in my family where Jewish practice was rare, we always had Matzah on the table, kneidlach in the chicken soup and …

Events like the Frank Stein Shield allow children and teenagers from different backgrounds to meet, and gain a sense of camaraderie within their own movement. But more than this, it gives those who aren’t so flash at playing soccer something to do from the sidelines.

The image of the Holocaust survivor who started afresh in the aftermath of the camps is familiar and powerful. We see it in films, in literature, and in our own families….

by Liz Paratz. So far, the 21st century appears to be the era when existential philosophy updated its status to ‘iPhone, therefore I am.’

By Keren Tuch
The first Australian Jewish international volunteer program has now been launched and completed, thanks to Jewish Aid and AUJS in conjunction with Tevel B’Tzedek – an Israeli NGO working in Nepal. It involved …

By Yaakov
I’m sitting in a bare concrete room, no telephone, no computer, only a desk, a couch, a few battered chairs and two cupboards stacked with dusty papers.  The ceiling fan isn’t running because the …