The Perth Jewish Community was privileged tonight to hear from Rabbi Simon Jacobson, a well known and highly entertaining speaker. His message was unequivocally clear, that Jewish education needs to be a community priority.  Rabbi Jacobson drew on his experiences of the past week in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to conclude that the Australian Jewish community [...]

The Shoah (Holocaust) museum in Israel is called Yad Vashem .  Literally it means “place and name”, but is contextually used to assert that “everybody has a name”.  The phrase is from the Prophet Isaiah who poetically scribes ”I will give them in my house and in my walls a place and a name, better than sons and daughters; an [...]

Brendon O’Connell, convicted for Racial Vilification, continues to publish and broadcast offensive, misguided, and remorseless statements from within the confines of prison.  This blog has made the point before that our justice system is unable to contain a person convicted of a crime from continuing to perpetrate that same crime from an incarcerated environment.  It [...]

Contrary to the cynicism often expressed towards JewglePerth, we have no desire as a bloggers to continually criticise the Jewish media, or to be continually negative.  As bloggers we do not attempt to compete with the Jewish media (whether commercial or not-for-profit) and ideally consider the function of a blog to complement debate through the [...]

I had several interesting experiences last week at a trade show I attended. The first incident comes straight from the “you are only as happy as you want to be” book of life experiences.  I had just finished eating my home packed kosher lunch and making a bracha (blessing) afterwards in gratitude of sustenance.  I [...]