Articles tagged with: Australian Jews
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 …
By Daniel Ari Baker
Happily and unexpectedly, Limmud Oz took me far away from Monash Caulfield and deep into Eastern Europe; on Sunday 13 June, I rode a train with Sholem Aleichem through turn-of-the-century Ukraine with …
Why a Return of Palestinian refugees to Israel will never happen and should never happen
By Philip Mendes
Last month a small group of Australian Jews signed a petition coordinated by anti-Israel extremists Antony Loewenstein and Ned …
The image of the Holocaust survivor who started afresh in the aftermath of the camps is familiar and powerful. We see it in films, in literature, and in our own families….
By Keren Tuch
The first Australian Jewish international volunteer program has now been launched and completed, thanks to Jewish Aid and AUJS in conjunction with Tevel B’Tzedek – an Israeli NGO working in Nepal. It involved …
This article by Talia Katz is the second of a two-part series on new and sometimes controversial forms of Shoah commemoration. Part 1 can be seen here.
There seems to be a distinctly anti-Generation-Y movement …
by Talia Katz
Part 1 of 2
My earliest memory of the ‘Holocaust’ is the living history project I was asked to create with the help of Olga, a kindly seventy year-old Polish woman. I was eleven. She told …
“Remembrance of things past” is an extract from Michael Gawenda’s latest book, Rocky and Gawenda, published by Melbourne University Press.
Michael will appear at Monash University (Caulfield) tonight, in conversation with James Button about his journalistic …
By ariel
Should Jewish sports clubs compete on Shabbat?
This question has confronted me since early adolescence, when I began playing competitive basketball with Maccabi NSW. It was around the time of my bar-mitzvah when I faced …
By Almoni
I write this not as an economist, but someone concerned about a socially and environmentally just future. Perhaps it’s time we gave up the worship of the Golden Calf and changed how we live.
When …
