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It’s about Freedom of Choice, not Freedom of Speech

May 22, 2012 – 10:14 pm | 12 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
As happened last year at Limmud Oz in Sydney, advocates of the destruction of the State of Israel have had their application to host a session rejected. And just as happened last year, …

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Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust

May 14, 2012 – 7:22 pm | 3 Comments

As part of the lead up to Limmud Oz 2012, we will be publishing some articles by presenters in order to give our readership a taste of some of sessions on offer. If you are …

Did God save the Jews during the Holocaust?

June 9, 2011 – 6:12 pm | 47 Comments

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

February 24, 2011 – 10:17 pm | 4 Comments

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

February 9, 2011 – 10:24 pm | 3 Comments

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

July 12, 2010 – 10:31 pm | 85 Comments

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

June 10, 2010 – 10:54 pm |
Partisan!

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

May 20, 2010 – 7:09 pm | 213 Comments

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

April 11, 2010 – 12:09 pm | 4 Comments
Holocaust survivors raise unique issues in the world of geriatrics

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?

February 28, 2010 – 8:35 pm | 3 Comments

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

November 17, 2009 – 8:45 pm | 4 Comments

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 …