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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The Letter I Want to Receive
The Letter I Want to Receive
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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No room for ‘restraint’
Today we learnt that while the entire Jewish world had united in prayer for the safe retur...
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Ode to Grandparents
Today, 11 April, my family marks my father’s liberation from Buchenwald concentration ca...
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I come from a Chanukah down under
Of all the Jewish holidays, none highlight the differences between northern and southern h...
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Private education scheme for Melbourne
Applications for the Werdiger Jewish education grant scheme are now open. The scheme has b...
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