Editors:

Frosh (Anthony) is a social-psychologist and research-methodologist with an interest in how people perceive the media. He is currently working in consumer research, although he harbours a desire to return to his former career as a Jewish action hero.

Elissa Goldstein studied media and communications, history and creative writing at Melbourne University. She recently discovered that none of the courses she completed will exist after 2010 (shout out to the Melbourne model!), which has precipitated a weird sort of intellectual-existential crisis. Does this mean she gets a HECS refund?

Rach SD (Rachel Sacks-Davis) is interested in creative Jewish expression, ancient Jewish heretics, and riding bicycles. She currently works in population health research.

Sub-Editors:

Sara K (Sarah Kennedy) recently completed a Bachelor of Arts/Journalism. She’s interested in modern Jewish history and hopes to study honours in Jewish civilization. She enjoys reading books and raiding op-shops, and much prefers Melbourne in Summer.

Liz (Elizabeth Paratz) is a 6th-year med student, obsessed with coffee and finding juicy veins on everyone’s arms. Between coffees and cannulations, she mimics the famous room full of monkeys bashing away on typewriters, hopefully producing meaning at some point.

Other regular contributors:

Almoni has moved through a variety of approaches to Judaism and Jewishness, and now considers himself a humanist with an ever-changing attachment to his heritage.   He works in an academic-community crossover and is involved in daily struggles with institutional inertia and ineptitude.   An Italophile, he has bought a pair of cardinals’ socks from the Vatican tailor (the papal skullcap in the shop window is not for sale).

The Hasid is a book-junkie and Yiddishphile who not-so-secretly wishes she was Sophia Petrillo from The Golden Girls.

Simon Holloway is a scribe of the Pharisees. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney (Classical Hebrew and Biblical Studies) and is the Director of Education at North Shore Temple Emanuel. His interests include the Hebrew Bible as literature, the ‘interface’ between linguistics and literary criticism, and the development of the Hebrew language. Simon is also the author of Davar Akher.

Jewin’ the fat is a writer by trade, journalist by degree, and Prime Minister by her mother. She has worked in Sydney and Jerusalem, with a focus on media issues. You can find more of her writing at jewin’ the fat.

Dr Philip Mendes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine at Monash University. He is the author or co-author of six books including The New Left, the Jews and the Vietnam War, 1965-72 (1993), and jointly edited with Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Jews and Australian Politics (2004). His publications on Jewish history and politics have appeared in numerous local and international journals.

Sibella Stern is a deeply restless global citizen with an interest in sexual slavery (an academic interest of course), music, writing and quizzing people about difficult or definitive moments in their lives. In her spare time, she daydreams about which of her family members would make the ultimate Amazing Race partner. Today it’s her sister.

Keren Tuch is a wandering and wondering Jew who aspires to be a citizen of the world.  By profession she’s a physiotherapist, by leisure she is a reading, writing cyclist (although not simultaneously!) and by food she’s an interested Jew.

David Werdiger is a businessman (see here & here), masters student, blogger, writer and voice artist; and is involved in several community not-for-profits. He was born and bred in Melbourne, and is married with five children. You can find more of David’s writing at David Knows, as well as at Helium.

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (titular) (Cambridge), M.A. (summa cum laude) (Tel Aviv), is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in Linguistics at The University of Queensland. His most recent, iconoclastic book Israelit Safa Yafa (“Israeli – A Beautiful Language: Hebrew as Myth”) was published by Am Oved (Tel Aviv) and became a controversial bestseller. His website is zuckermann.org.