Articles tagged with: Holocaust
Did God save the Jews during the Holocaust?
Geoff Bloch was recently tasked with arguing the case for the affirmative at a debate put on by the JBD of Melbourne, on the topic of “Did God save the Jews during the Holocaust?”
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An interview with the German Ambassador to Australia
The Capital Jewish Forum (CJF), based in Canberra, has recently launched a new initiative, where distinguished guests are interviewed on a range of issues which are relevant and of interest to Jewish academic, policy, business …
The ‘Third Generation’ in Australia and Israel
Transgenerational Holocaust Trauma: An Australian and Israeli Comparison
By Elisheva Massel
The impact of Holocaust trauma can be understood as being passed down as a family legacy, as a mission to be achieved. The term ʻtransgenerational …
When a Kiss Means Death
By Mark Baker
In the centre of Berlin not far from the Brandenburg gates there is a memorial to the Holocaust made up of thousands of slab tombstones. The group of students I am guiding through …
An Anti-Climax at the End of the World
By John Zeleznikow
For those holocaust survivors who were interred in concentration camps in occupied Nazi Europe between 1939 and 1945, life in post-war Melbourne was blissfully pleasant. They had successfully escaped to what they perceived …
Jewish Knight Defends Pius XII
Why would a Jew Open the Investigation of Pope Pius XII?
By Gary Krupp
The answer to this question lies in a series of events that moved our foundation to decide to confront this controversial subject and …
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….
A Tarantino Purim?
By Liz Paratz
In the story of Purim, Haman is a clear descendant of Amalek and the ‘bad guy’. The mission conducted by Esther and Mordechai to expose Haman and save the Jews is completely successful …
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 …
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