That’s not a knife …
In the classic Australian movie Crocodile Dundee, one of the most memorable scenes is...
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That’s not a knife …
That’s not a knife …
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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Do the Orthodox protect child sex abusers?
The ongoing revelations of child sex abuse cases in Orthodox* communities continue to send...
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California School Asks 8th Graders To Debate Whether Hiroshima Happened
Following their earlier wildly successful but somewhat controversial debate exercise, a s...
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Yom Hashoa 5774-2014
Imagine a huge tree, with a trunk so wide you cannot reach around it, an extensive root sy...
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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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Justice vs Community
Following the tragic death of a young member of the Melbourne Jewish community, there has...
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Kapital Nun
I’ve been saying kapital nun (chapter 50 of Tehillim) daily for a while now. Ma...
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Saved from MH370?
Following the awful disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, an interesting story...
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Matthew McConaughey invokes God
How do you confuse and confound an auditorium full of rich, beautiful, self-important, f...
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