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Pesach Sameach
March 28, 2010 – 11:27 pm | No Comment
Pesach Sameach

Dear Readers,
With Pesach upon us, Galus Australis will be taking a break from its usual content.
To mark the holiday, during chol hamoed, we’ll be linking to some musical pieces that we feel tie in with …

Soft Matzah: Rabbi Rabi Responds to Rabbinical Council Criticism
March 26, 2010 – 10:16 am | 244 Comments
Soft Matzah: Rabbi Rabi Responds to Rabbinical Council Criticism

Yesterday Galus published an article by David Werdiger on the new soft, pita-like matzah that is available this year in Australia. As raised by commenters on that article, the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) issued …

It’s matzah, but not as you know it
March 25, 2010 – 7:12 pm | 71 Comments
It’s matzah, but not as you know it

By David Werdiger

“This is what Hillel did in the times of the temple: he would wrap the Pascal offering, matzah and maror and eat them all together” (text of the Hagaddah, quoted from Talmud …

Stern Hu, sterner China, but meekness from Australia
March 24, 2010 – 12:36 am | 2 Comments
Stern Hu, sterner China, but meekness from Australia

By Anthony Frosh
The Stern Hu situation provides a lot of food for thought, both in the media coverage and also the reaction of the Australian Government, or lack thereof.
The Rio Tinto executive has apparently admitted to …

Warning: Never Separate a Wedding Reception from a Chuppah
March 21, 2010 – 8:55 pm | 9 Comments
Warning: Never Separate a Wedding Reception from a Chuppah

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 …

The Atheist Delusion
March 17, 2010 – 11:20 pm | 250 Comments
The Atheist Delusion

 
By Anthony Frosh
With the Global Atheist Convention currently taking place in Melbourne, I, like many people, have observed how it is rather unusual to have a conference defined by what you are not.  I don’t …

A Secular Congregation
March 15, 2010 – 1:15 pm | 13 Comments
A Secular Congregation

by Liraz Jedwab

Secular Judaism is by far the most confused and misunderstood concept in the wider Jewish Community. The reality is that for a number of reasons, the words “Secular Judaism” have lost any …

Of Apps and Schnapps
March 9, 2010 – 9:38 pm | No Comment
Of Apps and Schnapps

by Liz Paratz. So far, the 21st century appears to be the era when existential philosophy updated its status to ‘iPhone, therefore I am.’

Mossad Passport Appeal 2010 – Give Generously
March 8, 2010 – 11:23 pm | 18 Comments
Mossad Passport Appeal 2010 – Give Generously
The Article that the Jewish News Refuses to Print
March 5, 2010 – 2:11 pm | 20 Comments
The Article that the Jewish News Refuses to Print

The following article by Martin Indyk, former US ambassador to Israel was written as a reponse to Gerald Steinberg’s op-ed on the New Israel Fund in the AJN. The AJN declined to publish it; it …

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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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