Gay Pride, Chillul Hashem, and Kiddush Hashem
When Yishai Schlissel stabbed six people at the gay pride march in Jerusalem, he committ...
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Gay Pride, Chillul Hashem, and Kiddush Hashem
Gay Pride, Chillul Hashem, and Kiddush Hashem
Can Yeshivah take the cultural steps forward?
A wise friend of mine adapted the Harvard-developed negotiation model (seven elements, get...
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After the Royal Commission
Following the Royal Commission hearing into the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, David Werdig...
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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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Why is ‘Islamophobia’ a phobia?
It’s seems we’re trapped in a bizarre cycle: a terrorist attack by Islamists on a Wes...
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Har Nof shul attack
My synagogue at 7am If you’ve never been to a synagogue like mine on a typical weekday m...
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Of Dead Cricketers and Dead Shul-goers
The national outpouring of grief following the tragic death of cricketer Phil Hughes afte...
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Shabbat Project 2014
David Werdiger is a committee member of the Melbourne Shabbat Project, and wrote several a...
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#breakingItTogether (satire)
After the failure of the global Shabbat Project to usher in the Messiah, organizers have h...
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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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