The Australian Jewish Democratic Society is deeply saddened by the news that Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei, a detainee on Manus Island, currently (4th September 2014) lies brain dead in a Brisbane hospital as a…
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Steve Brook passed away on Wednesday, 13 August 2014, less than fortnight after his 80th birthday. Steve was one of the founding members of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) in 1984. He served for…
If you missed it, you can watch Dr. Jordy Silverstein and Samah Sabawi online, in this inspiring discussion on C31’s World from Below, hosted by Lizzie O’Shea. To watch click here.
Listen to AJDS executive member, Dr. Jordy Silverstein, talk about gender, religion and identity in this panel on Feminism and Faith podcasted by Cherchez La Femme. Fellow panelists include Tasneem Chopra, Amanpreet S.K Sahota and Avril Hannah-Jones.
The current war in Gaza was not one Israel or Hamas sought. But both had no doubt that a new confrontation would come. The 21 November 2012 ceasefire that ended an eight-day-long exchange of Gazan rocket…
By Larry Stillman The ECAJ and JCCV recently condemned AJDS for encouraging people to make donations to the UN’s emergency relief appeal for Palestinian refugees in Gaza. They said that “making donations to UNRWA is…
As Jews and Israelis living outside Israel the AJDS recognises its responsibility to speak out against the ongoing violence in Gaza. As the ground offensive continues, and increasing numbers of civilians are being killed, the…
By Jayne Josem, Curator and Head of Collections at the JHC “Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or…
By Joan Nestle One afternoon in March of this year, Sivan Barak, Larry Stillman, Max Kaiser and Mark Jarvinen struggled through my front gate at 4 Fitzgibbon in West Brunswick, their arms straining with overflowing…
shtikl – a little bit of something By Clare Fester When we think about 1950s Australia we often associate it with Robert Menzies’ long Liberal rule, social conservatism, and the White Australia policy. It…