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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The Shabbat Project: Turning negatives into positives
The Shabbat Project: Turning negatives into positives
Mindfulness of Giving
In the southern hemisphere, the academic year roughly corresponds to the calendar year, wh...
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Where is the Muslim Outrage at Islamic State?
Imagine this scenario: the emergence of a militant Jewish group. The New Sadducee State...
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YBRCAPS – helping the Fifth Child
Melbourne’s Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Colleges have launched YBRCAPS, an innovative revam...
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City of David – video review
It seemed like a good idea for a couple of Australian musicians. They would take their al...
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Israel-Hamas war, 2014
David Werdiger has written a number of pieces during the Israel-Hamas war of July/August 2...
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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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How goodly is your Facebook page, oh Jacob!
I recently attended a panel session at Limmud Oz in Australia entitled “Is Facebook good...
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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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