This Wednesday night as the sun sets, the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashana, will be upon us. The Jewish new year has a number of key themes, being divine kingship, remembrance, and personal introspecive calling.  It is a solemn time, and whereas a “new year” normally has a connotation of party and celebration, the Jewish [...]

When I previously published a blog about the changing culture of Maccabi I expressed hope that the Jewish nature of the organisation would become a measure of pride, and indeed it has become so. These days you don’t walk past Maccabi on Yom Tov and Shabbat and see competitive sports being played in contravention to [...]

There has been a fair amount of publicity regarding the decision by a State School in Western Australia to discountinue use of the Lords Prayer as part of the school assembly.  I was asked today about the matter, in connection with an article in the West Australian featuring a photo of Rabbi Frielich and a banner supporting the [...]

Yesterday I posted a message criticising the scheduling of the Jewsh Care AGM on yom tov, and over matters of kashrut. That post has been removed, as a revised email has come out from Jewish Care noting that the wrong date was advertised for the AGM.  I take this at face value, and only hope it was not [...]

Some years ago the editorial team of this blog were invited to engage with the Foreign Editor of the West Australian following scathing criticism we published regarding the West’s media bias. We were impressed by the willingness of Alan Kirk to engage, the fairness of his approach, and the personal time he extended to respond [...]