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Too many Rabbis
By Yaron Gottlieb
What is a rabbi?
What is the significance of a rabbi within the Jewish world? Are they even necessary to live a Jewish life?
We are all familiar with the Catholic model of religious leadership …
The Tent City of Rothschild Boulevard and the Coming Pogrom – Part II
This is the conclusion to Yoram Symons‘ series, The Tent City of Rothschild Boulevard and the Coming Pogrom. Part I can be found here.
The Other Side of Zionism
While the state-building and normalizing ethos of …
Give the Vote to the Diaspora – Rethinking the Two-State Soltuion
By Geoff Bloch
The international community and moderates on both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict have, for decades, called for a two-state solution to end the military jurisdiction Israel maintains over some 1.6 million disenfranchised …
The Curious History of a Load of Crap
By Simon Holloway
Yiddish speakers are very polite. While English speakers might tell you to get stuffed, a Yiddish speaker only directs you to do a poo in the sea (גיי קאקן אויפן ים). …
An interview with the Norwegian Ambassador to Australia
This Capital Jewish Forum interview with the Norwegian Ambassador to Australia, conducted by Manny Waks, covers the topics of Norway’s 22 July tragedy, Israel, and tolerance and racism, amongst other things.
Capital Jewish Forum (CJF): Firstly, …
Sheltering from the Storm
By Tamar Paluch
I have a shelter. It’s a few steps from my Jerusalem home; they serve coffee and have wi-fi. It’s open nearly twenty-four hours a day. It’s where I am sitting because …
The Tent City of Rothschild Boulevard and the Coming Pogrom – Part I
By Yoram Symons
Turn on the news. It is becoming obvious that the world is literally falling apart. Governments are defaulting, stockmarkets are tumbling, London burns, Greece riots, the Arabic nations are descending into civil wars, …
New-ish Jews
By Joel Lazar
There’s more than one way to do Judaism. That is the unfaltering message that has accompanied me since my arrival to the Star Spangled States one month ago. And more than ever, it …
The Shule-School Alliance – Another Model for Free Jewish Education
By Yoram Symons
My cousin and a number of his friends had decided to embark on that peculiarly Melbourne-ish hobby of starting a shule. There was nothing too out of the ordinary about that. Jews in …
Hummer Lacks Humility
Dear Izzy,
I gave up my intention to write about this, but then the site of a stretched pink hummer outside Caulfield shul on a Sunday afternoon some weeks ago (nothing says kiddushin like a stretched …
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