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Warning: Never Separate a Wedding Reception from a Chuppah

March 21, 2010 – 8:55 pm | 9 Comments

At many weddings, you will find that there is a considerable gap, both temporal and geographic, between the chuppah ceremony and the wedding reception. Typically, the reason cited for implementing this gap is that the …

Mossad Passport Appeal 2010 – Give Generously

March 8, 2010 – 11:23 pm | 18 Comments

The Top 60 Jewish Ghetto Names

November 3, 2009 – 6:07 pm | 5 Comments

This video is a production by Melbourne outfit TwofarkingJews. It’s been made as a response to the YouTube phenomenon Top 60 Ghetto Black Names
Compare and contrast.

Ahmadinejad pipped at the post by Pilger for peace prize

August 23, 2009 – 8:49 pm | 2 Comments

Melbourne & Sydney Jews singled out by Ahmadinejad for criticism in this bizarre video

August 6, 2009 – 7:02 pm | 5 Comments

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Jewish and Indigenous Australians working together

By Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin
It is not an uncommon part of the human experience for casual conversations and chance encounters to launch us in a new direction or to begin an extraordinary …

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COSV President Scolds the RCV

By Anthony Frosh
In a letter to Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) President Rabbi Yaakov Glasman, Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria (COSV) President Paul Korbl has called on the Rabbis of the RCV to issue …

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Are The Greens Kosher?

By Arielle Perlow and Ittay Flescher
The Rabbis of the Talmud teach us there are 70 faces to the Torah. Is it possible that one of them is green? Many Jews in Australia believe in the …

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Whither the Tribe of Levi

By David Werdiger
It’s a common scene in a Shul on Shabbat. Shortly before the reading of the Torah, the gabbai (that fellow who makes sure all the parts of the shul service that have to …

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