Articles tagged with: Jewish Life
They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Overdose on Opioids
By Liz Paratz
Liz continues her series on whether Judaism and Jewish practice are in fact good for the Jews. Previous posts in the series can be found here, here, and here. This week she …
Jew is as Jew does
By Jewin’ the fat
We knew it would happen eventually, and you know what they say – when the shit hits the fan, everyone gets covered in it.
I’m talking of course about the imminent ruling of …
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 …
A Story We Know Only Too Well
By Keren Tuch
As I sat sipping chai in a tea shop in the Indian town of McCleod Ganj, home to the Tibetan government in exile, I contemplated how it came to be that I could …
A Very Naughty Boy (We’ll be live blogging during the premiere episode of John Safran’s ‘Race Relations’!)
Live, from 9.30pm tonight!
Tune your TV to ABC1 and your internet browser to GalusAustralis.com.
The story so far:
John Safran Gets Busy with Cross-Cultural Love.
Pasty bespectacled comic John Safran is coming back to ABC TV with an …
Now with free music downloads! When elsewhere met Diwon… (and good music was heard by all.)
Andrew Harris from Melbourne’s elsewhere promotions spoke to Brooklyn-based DJ Diwon about his two new records, Serene Poetic and The Sabra Sessions. Diwon is the dynamo behind Shemspeed (a very hip, diverse website dedicated to …
Lobbying, the Left and web 2.0: a blueprint for the Australian Jewish community?
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 …
Desperately Seeking Someone (to help with Galus Australis)
Are you the sort of person who weeps at the sight of “you are” contracted to “your”?
Do you always have a piece of chalk handy for correcting restaurant menu spelling mistakes?
Does the impeding release of …
Stories my parents told me, too.
By The Hasid
Many of you may have read Mark Dapin’s article about second generation Holocaust survivors, “Stories My Parents Told Me”, in Good Weekend last Saturday (22 August). The article was sensitive and well-written, and …
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