Three Family Lessons from Megxit Three Family Lessons from Megxit By David WerdigerFamily Conflict ResolutionNo Comments 1 min read With the global media. online or otherwise buzzing about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle...Read More 19 January, 2020
Dieting and Judaism: not a slimming mix Dieting and Judaism: not a slimming mix By David WerdigerReligionNo Comments 9 min read Eat less, exercise more. That’s how my sister-in-law, the doctor, describes dieting, at ...Read More 10 January, 2020
The other important Jewish population statistic The other important Jewish population statistic By Laura PorterReligionNo Comments 3 min read The Jewish Agency have released their world Jewish population survey, and the results...Read More 7 September, 2019
All of us have become judges All of us have become judges By Laura PorterSocial CommentaryNo Comments 5 min read Judges ought to be the most esteemed people in society, but what happens when everyone is ...Read More 6 September, 2019
Chabad – Tactics vs Strategy Chabad – Tactics vs Strategy By Laura PorterReligionNo Comments 5 min read I read Rabbi Joshua Rabin’s article Wait, Doesn’t Chabad Do That? on these p...Read More 5 June, 2019
Using Facebook – Baby Boomers vs Millennials Using Facebook – Baby Boomers vs Millennials By David WerdigerFamily Conflict ResolutionNo Comments 3 min read I stumbled across a wonderful article that deals with the intersection of two of my favou...Read More 8 April, 2018
Same-sex marriage: right or social change? By David WerdigerPoliticsNo Comments 7 min read Disclaimer: some of these arguments regarding same-sex marriage are specific to Australia....Read More 15 August, 2017
How to ‘fix’ kapparot How to ‘fix’ kapparot By Laura PorterReligionNo Comments 5 min read The drawn out battle over kapparot as practiced in Brooklyn, New York is pr...Read More 5 July, 2017
The Language of Mistrust By David WerdigerPoliticsNo Comments 6 min read Language constantly evolves, and we coin new words and phrases to fit the zeitgeist –...Read More 15 June, 2017
Appropriate my culture, please Appropriate my culture, please By Laura PorterReligionNo Comments 4 min read Judaism has always interacted with its neighbors: go ahead, take our ethical system, or ju...Read More 30 May, 2017
Mating Rituals of the Haredis Mating Rituals of the Haredis By Laura PorterReligionNo Comments 4 min read Reading Tracy Frydberg‘s account of the Jerusalem hotel lobby dating scene&nbs...Read More 27 April, 2017
On Gay Marriage, Polyamory, Slippery Slopes and Straw Men By David WerdigerPoliticsNo Comments 7 min read It started when I read recently that Cory Bernadi “equated gay marriage with bestial...Read More 22 February, 2017