Today is the 15th birthday of the internet.  Its hard to believe that such an important social revolution is so young, and that somehow we managed to get through life without the instant gratification of having the world at our fingertips through global communications.  The world is a much smaller and richer place as a [...]

This post may be contraversial, but it’s time this story is told.
The conversion process in Perth, since the early beginnings of the Perth Jewish community has always been a contentious issue, racked with contraversy. You would think that these days in the community we have become, that the process would be appropriately formalised, and would [...]

Monday 19 April 2008:  This was the headline in the West Australian.  It is accompanied by a photo of four dead children, faces exposed, and a very carefully worded article that starts as follows “An Israeli tank shell slammed into a tiny Gaza Strip home yesterday, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as [...]

When the 2020 Summit was announced by PM Rudd, the general media contained several articles noting that the event clashed with Pesach and that members of the Jewish community felt this was inappropriate and exclusionist.  Hastily, a separate summit was organised, and the Government did all it could to accomodate a Jewish viewpoint within the [...]

Just two days ago I put some comment on this site defending criticism of the Maccabean.  I stand by the need for the paper to be supported and embraced by the community, for people to contribute, for the editor to be supported, and for the paper to fulfil its role of unifying and representing the community.
However [...]