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How Healthy is Your Body?

May 16, 2012 – 7:33 pm | 9 Comments

By Michelle Coleman
Your peak body that is. For Victorians, this is the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV).
Is it really ‘the voice of Victorian Jewry’? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? Is …

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ADC Accuses Websites of Anti-Semitism

July 8, 2009 – 9:34 pm | 19 Comments

By Yoram Symons
Recently an article appeared in the Jerusalem Post that detailed how the Bnei Brith’s Anti Defamation Commission had prepared a thorough report accusing two self proclaimed online news sources of being …

CSG intelligence failure: not the first, tells former insider

July 5, 2009 – 6:10 pm | 26 Comments

The following is a guest post by a former member of the CSG who has previously commented on this blog under the nom de plum “Former CSG Insider.”  Their authenticity as former member …

An Open Letter to the Jewish Community of Australia

June 26, 2009 – 3:51 pm | 49 Comments

This is a guest post from Jono David of Osaka.
I am a freelance documentarian of Jewish communities worldwide (www.JewishPhotoLibrary.com). My mission is to contribute to the preservation of Jewish communities by documenting them photographically. …

My Cousin Sammy (OR: The single-issue voter: a portrait)

June 23, 2009 – 10:09 am | 15 Comments

By The Hasid
Picture it: Melbourne, 2007!
It’s a Friday night in November. You’re partaking of the Shabbos meal with your nearest and dearest, somewhere in the Jewish Commonwealth of Glen Eira. The conversation turns, inevitably, to …

A Democratic Model For Communal Governance

June 22, 2009 – 12:36 am | 34 Comments

By Yoram Symons
I am going to begin this post from the following assumption: The JCCV is not democratic nor is it representational.
Pages have already been filled on this blog debating this issue and it is …

Yavneh: Is it time to go?

June 19, 2009 – 11:27 am | 29 Comments

By Malki Rose
With the Jewish education crisis looming larger than ever, (although some might say it loomed just as large 20 years ago and that this is nothing new), many individuals have been heard to …

Calling on all signatories

June 18, 2009 – 10:16 pm | 45 Comments

By Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis
To the 170 signatories to the petition calling on Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard to cancel her planned visit to Israel, we understand that you believe that Israel is not …