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How Healthy is Your Body?

May 16, 2012 – 7:33 pm | 9 Comments

By Michelle Coleman
Your peak body that is. For Victorians, this is the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV).
Is it really ‘the voice of Victorian Jewry’? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? Is …

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Why I’m attending the J Street Conference 2011

February 22, 2011 – 6:33 pm | 78 Comments

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 …

Why I Support the New Zionist Left

August 26, 2010 – 6:25 pm | 156 Comments

By Mark Baker
Since writing an article supporting the new Zionist Left, I’ve been asked what I believe about Israel and other matters. I’m not sure if the question that has come from numerous people is …

The New J Movement – A Reply to Frosh

May 31, 2010 – 9:11 pm | 20 Comments
Speak out against the war

By Mark Baker
Anthony Frosh’s article on J Street and JCall gives everything away when he asks whether the supporters of these organisations are ‘even’ pro-Israel or whether these ‘leftists’ could better be described as ‘pro-appeasement’. …

Undermining Israeli democracy from afar

May 27, 2010 – 6:36 pm | 16 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Recently, we have seen the launch of two important leftist Jewish political initiatives.  In the USA there is J Street, and now in Europe there is J Call.  Already I have heard calls …

Lobbying, the Left and web 2.0: a blueprint for the Australian Jewish community?

October 5, 2009 – 12:49 pm | 11 Comments

By Larry Stillman
When reading a recent New York Times magazine article by James Traub about the emergence of a left-of centre ‘Israel Lobby’, I was particularly struck by how completely different the situation is in …