Gedalia is taking a short break from blogging until the end of April. 
There are many many issues worth writing about, and I will be back to regular blogging as soon as I can.
An advance wish to all visitors to this site for a joyous, kosher and meaningful Pesach.  May we bring forward a time of [...]

Dr Jonathan Speyer is a well known political advisor, journalist, researcher and commontator.  His address at the University of Western Australia today showed us that in person, he is as articulate as he is on paper.
In a well balanced and academically challenging address, Dr Speyer directly addressed his topic (Strategic Dilemmas in a Changing Middle East) , at all times putting fact ahead [...]

In a first for kosher consumers in Australia, KAWA have announced that a new franchise of McDonalds in Dianella Plaza will be opened with kosher certification.  
In keeping with the new health and wellbeing image of McDonalds nationally, the new franchise will be organic, vegan, and completely pareve.  Even the cheeseburger will be made with soy cheese and [...]

There is more sensationalist media coverage about the extradition trial of Chales Zentai.  The article is about Mr Zentai’s decision to independently sit a polygraph lie detector test, and the results turned out to be a pass. 
The coverage again misses the point.  This is not a trial by media.  This is also not a court [...]

This is the month of Adar – a time to be happy and joyous. It’s a time to appreciate the madness and absurdity of all that surrounds us.  It is also when we conceal the revealed, and reveal the concealed.  We have the ability to mask reality and at the same time uncover an alternative [...]