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How Healthy is Your Body?

May 16, 2012 – 7:33 pm | 9 Comments

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 …

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Observations of Jews in their Natural Habitat

September 9, 2009 – 1:07 pm | 3 Comments

By Jewin’ the fat
Jewish people are a strange bunch. When it comes to their celebrations, however, the ’strange’ dial gets cranked up to 11. For the uninformed, it can be a treacherous path towards bloating, guilt and …

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Ahmadinejad pipped at the post by Pilger for peace prize

August 23, 2009 – 8:49 pm | 3 Comments

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner!

August 20, 2009 – 10:16 pm | 13 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
When we created Galus Australis, we were determined not to become a trashy tabloid.  However, very occasionally we might suffer a lapse in our journalistic integrity.  This is one of those occasions.
As some …

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Nine things to do in Jerusalem

August 18, 2009 – 10:04 pm |

By Jewin’ the fat
Jerusalem: It evokes picturesque sunsets and co-existence paradise, but sometimes, the reality is a touch different than what the tourguide said it would be. Too often, I meet people who are fresh …

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Ask Bayla #2: My son, the lawyer

August 18, 2009 – 8:19 pm | 2 Comments
Ask Bayla #2: My son, the lawyer

Dear Tante Bayla,
We have been blessed with three intelligent, sensitive, creative, independent-minded children. But the fourth, our youngest, is turning into a conservative little son-of-a-neo-con. We don’t know where we went wrong. Normal teenagers have …

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Melbourne & Sydney Jews singled out by Ahmadinejad for criticism in this bizarre video

August 6, 2009 – 7:02 pm | 6 Comments

Ask Izzy #2: Kiddush Conundrum

July 30, 2009 – 6:30 pm | 6 Comments
Ask Izzy #2: Kiddush Conundrum

Dear Izzy,
I seek your advice. I frequently go to Shule on Shabbos but have difficulty getting food at the Kiddush that follows the service. No matter how hard I try, I always seem to end …

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Ask Bayla #1: Pesach power struggle

July 21, 2009 – 1:03 pm | One Comment

Traditionally in Jewish culture, knowledge and wisdom are passed down from the elders to the younger generation.  Together with a historically higher than average literacy rate, this has been one of the keys to Jewish …

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Ask Izzy #1: Vegetarian dilemma

July 14, 2009 – 10:56 pm | 10 Comments

Traditionally in Jewish culture, knowledge and wisdom are passed down from the elders to the younger generation.  Together with a historically higher than average literacy rate, this has been one of the keys to Jewish …

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