Articles tagged with: Australian Jews
SBS Ombudsman Response to Complaints about The Promise
The following response from the SBS ombudsman was sent to a reader:
I write in relation to your formal complaint to SBS about The Promise, a four part series broadcast by SBS on four consecutive Sunday …
Attempts at Censorship will Prove Counterproductive
By Anthony Frosh
In attempting to ban DVD sales of The Promise, a polemical mini-series recently screened on SBS, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) have done a proverbial Andrés Escobar.
Attempts, or even perceived attempts, …
Church & State
By David Werdiger
On these pages, Rachel Sacks-Davis accused the Orthodox Rabbinate of acting more like evangelical Christians when it came to responding to the gay marriage debate.
The so-called “separation between church and state” is enshrined …
Limmud Oz Fest Finds the Missing Generation
By Anthony Frosh
After the most recent Limmud Oz that took place at Monash University Caulfield campus in Melbourne (2010), there was considerable discussion about the absence of young people. Indeed, an article in this publication, …
Orthodox Rabbis Confuse Themselves with Evangelical Christians
By Rachel Sacks-Davis
The following letter from Rabbi Dovid Freilich, the president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, appeared in today’s edition of The Australian:
“THE Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia opposes any legislation to legitimise …
Enter the Counter Boycott
Previously, we’ve seen Buycott Israel as a response to the BDS against Israel. However, some Jewish organisations have responded with counter boycotts. Simon Morawetz reports on a recent example in Australia.
In 2009, West Dunbartonshire Council …
ECAJ Urges Restraint from all Sides in BDS Rhetoric
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) today issued the following statement concerning the debate about the campaign for Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and the targeting of the Max Brenner chain in …
Census Maximus
By Anthony Frosh
‘There’s this unspoken thing among Jews,” comedian John Safran was quoted in a recent interview published in The Age, ”that no matter whether you’re kosher or not, you always ask for kosher meals …
Why I’m attending the J Street Conference 2011
By Liam Getreu
J Street has become one of the most influential organisations in American Jewry in recent years – I’m no expert on its efficacy in lobbying Congress, but there can be no doubt that …
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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