Article Archive for August 2009
Clothes Maketh the Jew
By David Werdiger
In organizational culture, stories have a very strong influence in building or maintaining the culture, particularly as they use informal settings to convey a message. This is particularly so for religions, where …
Not ‘The Dearborn Independent’
Gary Mallin, sub-editor at The Age, gives an inside perspective on reporting about Jews.
A couple of observations: when someone who is a Jew (and to a lesser extent a Moslem, for that matter) makes …
You say Hebrew; I say Israeli!
The language spoken in today’s Israel is a multifaceted and fascinating fin-de-siècle hybrid, based not only on ‘sleeping beauty’ (or alternatively, ‘walking dead’) Hebrew but also on the revivalists’ mother tongues such as Yiddish, argues …
It’s Aliyah all over Again
By Paul Brown
I only saw Shlomo Carlebach perform once. It was at the Wix Auditorium in Machon Weitzmann Science Institute in Rehovot, Israel, in the summer of 1969. I was living in Israel at the …
Reporters without Borders (or standards)
by Jewin’ the fat.
Too often, a journalist is attacked for elements of a story which are out of their control – photos provided by the photographer, headlines composed by the sub-editor – it is a …
A Spectrum of Observance
By Simon Holloway
While it is my abiding interest that my contributions to this site do not become mere reflections on my own personal philosophy, a discussion that commenced in an earlier thread has tempted me …
A Jew goes to Burma
by Sibella Stern
Burmese demographics are mind boggling; in a land heavily devoted to Buddhism, you will nevertheless be woken every morning by the Muslim call to prayer. Your 16 hour bus ride (which you …
Conversion Disorder
By Rachel Sacks-Davis
The mikvah itself was a non-event, so much so that she wondered whether she had done something wrong. By that stage she already felt Jewish; the internal transformation had taken place sometime earlier.
Francis* …
A Uyghur Tale
By Alex Kats
Last week I was privileged to see the controversial film about Rebiya Kadeer at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
In the lead up to the festival, English director, Ken Loach, who had previously …
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