‘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
The Unetanneh Tokef prayer says it so powerfully and poignantly: “On Rosh Hashanah w...
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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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Fairfax Media – spiralling into the blame game
I’m not sure what the editors at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald were thinking. Pe...
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Shabbat Project 2015
For the Shabbat Project 2015, David Werdiger wrote two articles for the Australian Jewish ...
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A time to bring the community together
The Shabbat Project has an energy like no other. Sure, it’s novel and different, and as ...
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Who Hates Us More?
Surely the most useless debate ever would be the following topic: “Who hated the Jews mo...
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Looking for God in all the wrong places
God did a couple of inexplicable things last week. He allowed the brutal murder of a young...
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Disconnect to Reconnect
We are fortunate, when it comes to the Shabbat Project, that it evolved so recently and so...
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5775 – Annus Horribilis
To say it’s been a difficult year for our community would be a gross understatement...
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Mr Tzvi (Harry) Raitman, 90, OBM
For years he sat quietly in his seat in shul – week-in, week-out – like a permanent fi...
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