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Article Archive for October 2009

The milchig-fleishig quandary and other Jewish and gastronomic medical observations
October 29, 2009 – 5:46 pm | 9 Comments
The milchig-fleishig quandary and other Jewish and gastronomic medical observations

This article is the second in a series on the medical benefits (or otherwise) of Jewish food, culture, and religion. In this series, Liz Paratz peruses the medical literature for evidence-based answers to the big …

This is not District 9
October 29, 2009 – 2:39 pm | 7 Comments
This is not District 9

By Larry Stillman
I saw the film last night but this is not District 9.
I write this in Johannesburg, out of touch with the latest “boat’ people crisis” back in Australia, but nonetheless very concerned.  Despite …

A Story We Know Only Too Well
October 28, 2009 – 12:19 pm | 19 Comments
A Story We Know Only Too Well

By Keren Tuch
As I sat sipping chai in a tea shop in the Indian town of McCleod Ganj, home to the Tibetan government in exile, I contemplated how it came to be that I could …

Safran pushes the boundaries
October 26, 2009 – 5:26 pm | 16 Comments
Safran pushes the boundaries

By Jewin’ the fat
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
John Safran is arguably Australia’s King …

Sabra is dead. Long live Daneli’s.
October 25, 2009 – 11:31 am | 27 Comments
Sabra is dead. Long live Daneli’s.

By David Werdiger
I preferred Sabra before they switched from their previous kosher authority to their most recent one – their chips were just delicious. My friend who works in the kosher industry told me they …

Judaism Under the Microscope
October 23, 2009 – 9:34 am | 12 Comments
Judaism Under the Microscope

By Liz Paratz
The medical world today is very proud of its shiny fabulous new tool, called ‘evidence-based medicine’. EBM, as it is known in short, is basically the simple-sounding idea that you don’t do …

Remembrance of things past – an extract from Michael Gawenda’s “Rocky and Gawenda”
October 22, 2009 – 10:53 am | 3 Comments
Remembrance of things past – an extract from Michael Gawenda’s “Rocky and Gawenda”

“Remembrance of things past” is an extract from Michael Gawenda’s latest book, Rocky and Gawenda, published by Melbourne University Press.
Michael will appear at Monash University (Caulfield) tonight, in conversation with James Button about his journalistic …

A Very Naughty Boy (We’ll be live blogging during the premiere episode of John Safran’s ‘Race Relations’!)
October 21, 2009 – 11:17 am | 20 Comments
A Very Naughty Boy (We’ll be live blogging during the premiere episode of John Safran’s ‘Race Relations’!)

Live, from 9.30pm tonight!
Tune your TV to ABC1 and your internet browser to GalusAustralis.com.
The story so far:
John Safran Gets Busy with Cross-Cultural Love.
Pasty bespectacled comic John Safran is coming back to ABC TV with an …

Ask Bayla #3: Dali dilemma
October 20, 2009 – 2:38 pm | 2 Comments
Ask Bayla #3: Dali dilemma

Dear Tante Bayla,
A couple of weeks ago, my beloved and I decided to visit the Dali exhibition at the NGV for the Art After Dark session. When we arrived we were dismayed to find that …

Now with free music downloads! When elsewhere met Diwon… (and good music was heard by all.)
October 20, 2009 – 11:54 am | 2 Comments
Now with free music downloads! When elsewhere met Diwon… (and good music was heard by all.)

Andrew Harris from Melbourne’s elsewhere promotions spoke to Brooklyn-based DJ Diwon about his two new records, Serene Poetic and The Sabra Sessions. Diwon is the dynamo behind Shemspeed (a very hip, diverse website dedicated to …

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Jewish and Indigenous Australians working together

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

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?

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

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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