Article Archive for November 2009
Community Forum – Special Offer!
At Galus Australis, we like to encourage community involvement. While others just talk grass roots community action, at Galus, we walk it! (Note to our advertising agency: this is really lame copy).
This is an open …
Why Brit Milah is Good for you and Davening can be Dangerous
This article is the third 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 …
British Court Demonstrates Cultural Arrogance
By Anthony Frosh
By now you may have read or heard about the British Supreme Court ruling against a Jewish Orthodox school. The court has ruled that the school is not permitted to define who is …
Hope for the Homeless
By Keren Tuch
Problems these days need creative solutions. If young Jews in the Diaspora are assimilating, let’s send them on a free, ten day tour of Israel to encourage Zionism and procreation. If Palestinians and …
Holocaust Commemoration 2.0: re-told, re-imagined, re-worked (Part 1)
by Talia Katz
Part 1 of 2
My earliest memory of the ‘Holocaust’ is the living history project I was asked to create with the help of Olga, a kindly seventy year-old Polish woman. I was eleven. She told …
Letters to the Editor
Danny Katz is not amusing
Woody Allen made a career out of being sceptically humorous, and sometimes derisively mocking the New York Jew. His characterisations have become synonymous with how most of the world see Jews …
Confronting the last Taboo – Orthodox Judaism and Homosexuality
Michael Barnett of Aleph takes Orthodox Jewry to task on treatment of same-sex attracted Jews. His article is followed by a response by Orthodox Rabbi, Shamir Caplan.
Homosexuality, Orthodox Judaism and Psychological child abuse
by Michael Barnett
Orthodox …
Anti-Semitism and the Media – an Interview with Michael Gawenda
Interview and article by Sara K
Michael Gawenda, the author of Rocky and Gawenda: The Story of a Man and his Mutt, opened up to Galus Australis last week about his time as editor-in-chief at The …
The Top 60 Jewish Ghetto Names
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.
Bad language in the Good Book
By Simon Holloway
In a Sydney synagogue, a local rabbi delivered a sermon in which he criticised foul language as essentially not Jewish. I will not question the fact that classical Jewish literature eschewed scatological and …
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