Articles in Religion and Jewish Thought
Not Sent From My iPad
By Simon Holloway
I don’t care how popular the iPad becomes, or even the ubiquitous E Ink devices: nothing will ever replace the joy of holding a book. The tactile and olfactory feast that is an …
Are Jewish Women Condemned to Hard Labour?
By Liz Paratz
Fast-forward a few thousand years and if we are condemned to ‘bring forth children in sorrow’, why do even the most religious of Jewish women use pain-relief in childbirth?
More debate please – Pluralist panel offers too much agreement
By Yaakov Gorr
Parsha Korach is a great reminder that Judaism is known for its great debates and great debaters – not only debates between Moshe and Korach but debates between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael, …
Bald Rebel Swallowed by the Earth
By David Werdiger
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad/Lubavitch movement, had a favourite saying, “One should live with the times”. His intent was not that Judaism should be adapted to fit the times. …
Rabbi Rabi reflects on the so-called soft matzah controversy
By Rabbi Meir Rabi
For background on soft matzah see this and this.
I wonder what constitutes a “controversy” or a “controversial pesak”?
Is it the tumult raised by parties who are not impartial?
By those who may have …
Spirituality within Judaism – Learnings from Amma
By Keren Tuch
The air was holy. People walked the aisles as if levitating in a state of awe. As the holy Amma appeared on stage and performed her ritualistic puja, the audience – a mix …
Pesach and ‘genocide’
By Keren Tuch
I look forward to Pesach every year (I might swallow my words when the day eventually comes for me to host a seder). Aside from kneidlach, charoset and walnut pate (liver …
Soft Matzah: Rabbi Rabi Responds to Rabbinical Council Criticism
Yesterday Galus published an article by David Werdiger on the new soft, pita-like matzah that is available this year in Australia. As raised by commenters on that article, the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) issued …
It’s matzah, but not as you know it
By David Werdiger
“This is what Hillel did in the times of the temple: he would wrap the Pascal offering, matzah and maror and eat them all together” (text of the Hagaddah, quoted from Talmud …
The Atheist Delusion
By Anthony Frosh
With the Global Atheist Convention currently taking place in Melbourne, I, like many people, have observed how it is rather unusual to have a conference defined by what you are not. I don’t …
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