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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 …
The Free Jewish Education Movement has Begun
With the cost of the private Jewish school becoming increasingly unaffordable, Jonathan Schauder presents an example of a plan to provide better Jewish education in a state school.
Glen Eira College – Australia’s First Jewish State …
A Broyges that goes back to the Goldrush
By Bracha Rafael
This July my entire family travelled to California to attend my grandfather’s 90th birthday party. The day we landed in San Francisco, my sister received an email from a long-lost cousin of ours. …
The Essence of Torah
By Simon Holloway
It is no secret that the weight of our traditions, and the vast bulk of our legislation, derives not from an explicit reading of the Torah, but instead from the long and methodical …
Census Maximus
By Anthony Frosh
‘There’s this unspoken thing among Jews,” comedian John Safran was quoted in a recent interview published in The Age, ”that no matter whether you’re kosher or not, you always ask for kosher meals …
Choose Your Own Adventure: Frankston
By Simon Morawetz
Anyone familiar with the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series will know that life can be full of tough choices. Any path you choose to tread has both advantages and disadvantages. Otherwise, it wouldn’t …
Victorian Islamic and Jewish community leaders dine together
Amongst the many press releases we receive on a daily basis, we received one yesterday from the JCCV about a dinner they had with the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV). In a sea of …
So you think you can Soapbox? Good, because I can’t!
By Anthony Frosh
A couple of weeks of ago, I received a call from one of the organisers of the upcoming event The Jewish Community: What’s in it for me? that is on this Sunday evening. …
Gossip Danger
By David Werdiger
“I won’t let my child ever walk home alone again from school”, I heard a mother say, in the wake of the tragic abduction and murder of Leiby Kletzky in the supposedly safe …
Calling all Graphic Artists – Groundswell Logo Competition
By Anthony Frosh
The Gen08 survey of the Australian Jewish community revealed some worrying trends. Generation X & Y are more likely than their parents to be disengaged from the Jewish community. Furthermore, the transition of …
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