Article Archive for May 2010
The New J Movement – A Reply to Frosh
By Mark Baker
Anthony Frosh’s article on J Street and JCall gives everything away when he asks whether the supporters of these organisations are ‘even’ pro-Israel or whether these ‘leftists’ could better be described as ‘pro-appeasement’. …
Undermining Israeli democracy from afar
By Anthony Frosh
Recently, we have seen the launch of two important leftist Jewish political initiatives. In the USA there is J Street, and now in Europe there is J Call. Already I have heard calls …
Right of Reply – the kosher labelling submission
By Peter Wertheim
The ECAJ/ORA submission does not purport to contain a complete proposal for an alternative system to the present regime of self-regulation. On the contrary, the final paragraph suggests that if a fair and …
The kosher labelling submission – now available for your perusal
By Rachel Sacks-Davis
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) and the Organisation of Rabbis Australasia (ORA) have made their submission available on the ECAJ website.
For those who do not want to read the entire document, …
No competition please, we’re the Kashrut Authority
By Rachel Sacks-Davis
In a move that can only be interpreted as anti-competitive, Kosher Australia and associates have applied to the government for exclusive rights to decide who can label a product, ‘kosher’. As reported in …
Jewish Knight Defends Pius XII
Why would a Jew Open the Investigation of Pope Pius XII?
By Gary Krupp
The answer to this question lies in a series of events that moved our foundation to decide to confront this controversial subject and …
Banning the Burqa
By David Werdiger
Following his Hamas-hummus prank in the movie Bruno, one could imagine a Sacha Baron-Cohen character quickly dismissing the idea of banning the burqa: How could we do that!? Throw away so much tradition? …
Rabbi Rabi reflects on the so-called soft matzah controversy
By Rabbi Meir Rabi
For background on soft matzah see this and this.
I wonder what constitutes a “controversy” or a “controversial pesak”?
Is it the tumult raised by parties who are not impartial?
By those who may have …
Spirituality within Judaism – Learnings from Amma
By Keren Tuch
The air was holy. People walked the aisles as if levitating in a state of awe. As the holy Amma appeared on stage and performed her ritualistic puja, the audience – a mix …
An Israel for all its citizens rather than an Israel for all Jews
by Larry Stillman
“In recent years, Israeli groups have put forward several constitutions for the state of Israel. However, these proposals…have been preoccupied with the question of, ‘Who is a Jew?’ and have neglected the primary …
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