Articles tagged with: Australian Jews
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 …
Shalom Aleichem, Sholem Aleichem
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 …
Radical Australian Jews advocating for Israeli national suicide
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 Difficulties Of Ageing Are Intensified For Holocaust Survivors
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….
With an Outstretched Hand
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 …
New Visions for Commemorating the Shoah
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 …
Holocaust Commemoration 2.0: re-told, re-imagined, re-worked (Part 1)
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 – an extract from Michael Gawenda’s “Rocky and Gawenda”
“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 …
“I don’t roll on Shabbos!”
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 …
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