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Six reasons why you might already be keeping kosher

February 6, 2012 – 9:31 pm | One Comment

By Robert Efraim Bel
So you only buy kosher meat, stay away from crustaceans, never mix meat and milk, and always check the food labels. You try your best but all this is of course a …

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Jews support asylum seekers while the NSW Greens deligitimise Jews – the week in politics

December 12, 2010 – 4:43 pm | 35 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Last week, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) issued a press release calling on “Australians to welcome asylum-seekers into their communities and embrace the benefits refugees can offer Australia.”  The full statement is …

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Right-of-reply: ADC report muddies the water

December 2, 2010 – 5:30 pm | 26 Comments

By Larry Stillman
This article is a response to Deborah Stone’s recent piece in Galus Australis and her summary of the ADC special report, “Antisemitism on Campus. Contemporary Jewish experience at Victorian universities”. The article has …

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As the UN votes to allow gays to be executed, silence prevails

November 28, 2010 – 7:31 pm | 86 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Currently in Australia we are witnessing a much-publicised debate concerning the establishment of gay civil marriage.  I use the term ‘debate’ liberally since I am yet to hear any good arguments against it.  …

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Crossing over: Anti-Zionism & Antisemitism on Campus

November 21, 2010 – 5:44 pm | 124 Comments

As the ADC releases its report on Antisemitism on Campus in Victoria, Deborah Stone reflects on the increasing grey area between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
I’m a Jew. I’m not an Israeli. I could have been an …

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Hate speech has no boundaries

November 7, 2010 – 12:09 am | 111 Comments

By Larry Stillman
Hate speech is often characterized as ‘words that wound’, words that are deliberately intended to cause severe discomfort, stigmatization, a feeling of being sullied, and humiliation in the face of others.”
Within the Melbourne …

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The Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism – A History

October 17, 2010 – 4:22 pm | 45 Comments

By Philip Mendes

The Rise and Fall of the Melbourne Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, 1942-1970

Historical research is often motivated by, and influenced by, the interests and perspectives of the researcher. When I …

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AWU National Secretary slams BDS

October 10, 2010 – 3:00 pm | 91 Comments

The following is an abridged version of the speech by Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) National Secretary, Paul Howes, given to the Zionist Federation of Australia on Sunday 10 October.
At a time of a new …

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Letter from Gush Etzion

October 4, 2010 – 10:20 pm | 76 Comments

By Ari Silbermann
I awoke the morning of  September 27th to the joyful sounds of bulldozers just outside my window.  The sounds of Jews building in the Land of Israel.  We had waited for months to …

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How our Universities Harm our Children

September 26, 2010 – 4:46 pm | 74 Comments

By Geoff Bloch
We may be relics from the past but our children live in a post-modern, post-Zionist world in which traditional Jewish values are being progressively rejected as archaic and irrelevant. As our children leave …

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Gillard – Who is she good for?

September 13, 2010 – 7:19 pm | 28 Comments

By Malki Rose
They say that a nation gets the leader it deserves. And this week not a truer word could have been spoken.
When asked which of the two parties were preferred the answer given seemed …

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