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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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Confessions of a Cross-religion Art Lover

December 11, 2009 – 2:01 pm | 5 Comments

By Almoni
For the past ten years I’ve had an increasing interest with Renaissance Art: Duccio, Giotto, the Lippis, Martini, della Francesca and many others. For all of them – and for earlier wonderful painters like …

It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like a Jew on Christmas

December 3, 2009 – 12:09 am | 22 Comments

by Sibella Stern

I beat John Safran to the Filipino punch. I just want everyone to know that. (And I didn’t need a Spielberg-style budget or cast of thousands to get my kicks at the cost …

Anti-Semitism and the Media – an Interview with Michael Gawenda

November 4, 2009 – 7:20 pm | 24 Comments

Interview and article by Sara K
Michael Gawenda, the author of Rocky and Gawenda: The Story of a Man and his Mutt, opened up to Galus Australis last week about his time as editor-in-chief at The …

Fostering Jewish-Indian relations – one kosher samosa at a time

October 19, 2009 – 10:52 am | 16 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
Many months ago, perhaps last summer, I was walking down an East St Kilda street with RachSD, and in front of us were two young men who appeared to be from the Indian …

Death…the next move

September 8, 2009 – 12:02 am | 9 Comments

By Almoni
Since we all unavoidably experience death, I thought I should write about it. Oddly, despite my complete disconnection from traditional approaches, as the High Holidays approach, death is something that comes to mind.
I’ve probably …

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner!

August 20, 2009 – 10:16 pm | 13 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
When we created Galus Australis, we were determined not to become a trashy tabloid.  However, very occasionally we might suffer a lapse in our journalistic integrity.  This is one of those occasions.
As some …

A Jew goes to Burma

August 3, 2009 – 9:00 pm | 15 Comments

by Sibella Stern

Burmese demographics are mind boggling; in a land heavily devoted to Buddhism, you will nevertheless be woken every morning by the Muslim call to prayer. Your 16 hour bus ride (which you …