Article Archive for September 2010
The Hijacking of Lion FM
Amid reports of widespread volunteer dissatisfaction, bullying, and a lack of accountability and transparency at Lion FM, Bram Presser, a Lion FM presenter until controversially cut last week, explains that the station urgently needs rescuing …
How our Universities Harm our Children
By Geoff Bloch
We may be relics from the past but our children live in a post-modern, post-Zionist world in which traditional Jewish values are being progressively rejected as archaic and irrelevant. As our children leave …
Hello, is this the Sukkah hotline?
By Anthony Frosh
For my wife and I, like many Australian Jews, the first Sunday after Yom Kippur is Sukkah building day.
Sukkah building used to require some knowledge of carpentry and ideally, some reliable contacts within …
The Smell of Chickens
By David Werdiger
To paraphrase Kilgore in the epic war film Apocalypse Now, “I love the smell of chickens in the morning”. I don’t. I actually can’t stand the smell. It’s 5am, and I have just …
Chosenness as a Jewish concept
By Geoffrey Bloch
Johnny Baker, my friend and childhood classmate, endorses changing the traditional blessing one makes when being called up to the Torah (Changing Our Chosen Status AJN 3/9). I sat next …
Gillard – Who is she good for?
By Malki Rose
They say that a nation gets the leader it deserves. And this week not a truer word could have been spoken.
When asked which of the two parties were preferred the answer given seemed …
Let the Shofar Take You Places
By Rabbi Meir Rabi
May this year be a peaceful year.
A year of challenges that prompt us to discover energies that have perhaps hibernated within us and are ready to blossom.
Everyone wants a sweet new year. …
Rosh Hashanah – of Fish Heads and Frankl
By David Werdiger
Many of the rituals and activities around Rosh Hashanah are brimming with symbolism. From the round challot symbolizing completeness, to the special foods eaten such as honey cake and apple dipped in honey …
Why the AJDS are right to support a limited boycott
By Larry Stillman
I’d like to argue the moral case for supporting a selective boycott of products from the Occupied West Bank. I take the view that it is illegally held territory in which its prior …
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