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We need Jewish Continuity, not Organisational Territoriality
By Manny Waks
In the article, Give Us the Tools to Define Our Involvement, Joshua Einstein cogently articulates the major challenges and obstacles inherent in the global predicament of Jewish continuity. The term “continuity” is ubiquitous …
Welcome to the good life: Snores, chores, bores and much mores
By Kovi Rose
Its 3:00am and I am woken by the sound of my roommate from Minnesota snoring like a disgruntled boar. He has said to me in the past that I should wake him up …
Letters to the Editor – Baseless Lies about Limmud
As a devotee, participant and lecturer at five of the previous Limmud-Oz Jewish cultural events in Sydney and Melbourne, I am jealous of its reputation. Limmud-Oz is one of the finest, most all-encompassing, …
Blurring the Humanitarian Welcome Mat
Continuing with our Pesach theme of asylum seekers and refugees, Malki Rose attended the launch of the ‘People Smugglers: Friend or Foe?’ exhibit now showing at the Jewish Museum of Australia.
Americans refer to them as …
It’s Time for all People to have their Festival of Freedom
By Keren Tuch
In a couple of days time we will be reciting the familiar Hebrew song from the Passover Haggadah “Avadim hayinu ata b’nei chorin – We were once slaves, but now we are free.” …
Victorian Greens dealing with Levitical Leprosy
By Yaakov Gorr
Whilst Shabbos shul-goers were leyning Parashat Metzora, the Victorian Greens were in their State Conference and dealing with a leprosy of a different kind. A representative of the Greens’ NSW branch had been …
Tales from Rural Australia to Crown Heights
Matthue Roth reviews Goldie Goldbloom’s new book, You Lose These and Other Stories
Take the first two stories in Goldie Goldbloom’s new book You Lose These, a collection of short stories. No, I mean it: Take …
Letters to Editor – Responses to Mendes
Below are two slightly abbreviated versions of two lengthy responses we received in regard to the latest article by regular Galus contributor, Prof. Philip Mendes , Advocating Peace or Promoting Conflict and Discrimination? The Strange …
Aliyah: Going up or coming down to earth?
By Kovi Rose
Having just arrived in Israel less than a week ago, I was excited and anxious to deal with the bureaucracy and slide into the culture and life of the locals. I arrived at …
Meanwhile at the Peace Team, things get complicated
This is the second in a series of blog entries, written by Danny Brill, about the Peres Peace Team’s participation in the International Cup. To read the first article, click here.
The …
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