‘Hamakom’ as a Verb and Transactional Judaism
Ritual is an important part of Judaism. But in some cases, the ritual can feel o...
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‘Hamakom’ as a Verb and Transactional Judaism
‘Hamakom’ as a Verb and Transactional Judaism
Shiva: sitting, then getting up
Two situations – on both sides of the fence – over a short period of time have given m...
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Are We Reaching Charidy Fatigue
Have you heard about this amazing online sensation called Charidy? You can run intens...
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How to heal a shattered community
In the weeks following the Royal Commission hearing into the Yeshivah Centre in Melbo...
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The Letter I Want to Receive
In the wake of Case Study 22 of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to ...
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Mesirah and the AFP’s War on Drugs
The Jewish law of ‘mesirah’ – the prohibition against handing a fellow Jew over to s...
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Four things I learned from the Shabbat Project
We’ve just completed an exhilarating weekend of The Shabbat Project here in Me...
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The Shabbat Project: Turning negatives into positives
My son’s phone stopped working the other day. He had a busy day with lots to do and...
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Deployed, destroyed but NEVER enjoyed
The photo of someone in a cafe wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “Deployed –...
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Who to blame?
Oh the games we play in response to the terrible things that happen in the world! While so...
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That’s not a knife …
In the classic Australian movie Crocodile Dundee, one of the most memorable scenes is...
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Israel is the new ‘one-percenter’
Inequality has gone hopelessly out of fashion. Obama declared economic inequality “the d...
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