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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 …
Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
As part of the lead up to Limmud Oz 2012, we will be publishing some articles by presenters in order to give our readership a taste of some of sessions on offer. If you are …
War and Peace
In response to a recent discussion on Galus Australis relating to the ethical and moral issues that arise if one chooses to serve in the Israeli military, Larry Stillman has submitted the following article.
The key issue …
The Finkler Panel
Galus Australis is excited to be hosting a couple of panel discussion sessions at the upcoming Limmud Oz in Melbourne.
One of these sessions will be on The Finkler Question and Jewish Identity. The Finkler Question, authored …
The International Olympic Committee needs to lift its Game
By Ashley Browne
So how many women will be competing for Saudi Arabia at this year’s summer Olympic Games?
The answer is zero, just as it has been at all eight Olympics to which the Saudis have …
Reclaiming the Yom Ha’atzmaut Prayer Service
By Mark Symons
Every year, the Melbourne Orthodox community conducts a communal Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) prayer service. But it is a community service in name only. The rabbis and presidents of most Orthodox congregations …
The Dog Test
By Vadim Chelom
With another Pesach now behind us I am sure that this year, as in the past many of you have spent nervous moments agonising over the permissibility of usage on Pesach of many …
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 …
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