Imagine if you owned a home and worked within a community to turn desert into farmland.  Imagine if over a third of your life you toiled to build industry and had reached the stage where your business exported millions of dollars worth of agricultural produce.  Then one day your own Government arrived on your doorstep, [...]

I was pleased to open the internet news site of news.com.au and find this article.  It was flanked with the banner on the front page with the text “Iconic Footage may have been a Hoax, Fact or Fiction?” The headline itself is unusual, given the court has categorically given the answer:  “Fiction”.  There is no [...]

Many of you will have read during the week in the AJN about how a Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court has annulled an Israeli woman’s conversion, after 14 years, on the basis that she is no longer observant (and most likely never was). The Jewish Daily Forward has more on the subject: “…A local rabbinical court [...]

Strong responses continue to be received about the Maccabeans persistence in publishing the Did you Know column when it contains innaccurate and offensive statements. Last week, in an attempt to discredit the process of Sefirat Haomer, the article makes the claim that the Rabbis of the Talmud disregarded and corrupted the Torah text.  Commenting on the interpretation of the item the [...]

Tonight was the Carmel School AGM.  Not too many surprises as the script was predicatable.  The main observations are that the school is exceptionally well governed, the board is very effective especially in the area of financial management, and that the parent body by and large take it for granted.  There would have been less [...]