by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Newsletter
By Les Rosenblatt There’s no ‘Rabbinic Spring’ yet, (Australian Jewish News Editorial Feb 20, 2015) regardless of the AJN having sighted the odd dove or swallow skimming the murky oceans of Chabad rabbinical denial exposed at the Royal Commission....
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Newsletter
By Alon Idan Haaretz supplement, 20/2/2015 Translated by Keren Rubinstein ‘Occupation’ is not a good word. It takes the Israeli away from reality instead of bringing him closer to it. ‘The Occupation’ has a permanent place in the Israeli hall of collective...
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Newsletter
By Alon Idan Haaretz supplement, 20/2/2015 Translated by Keren Rubinstein ‘Occupation’ is not a good word. It takes the Israeli away from reality instead of bringing him closer to it. ‘The Occupation’ has a permanent place in the Israeli hall of collective...
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Newsletter
By June Factor The Age, 17/2/2015 Once upon a time, in 1834 to be exact, British civilisation introduced, on the shores of Van Diemen’s Land, the first children’s prison in the British empire. Not far from Port Arthur, Point Puer’s Boys’ Prison...
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Newsletter
By June Factor The Age, 17/2/2015 Once upon a time, in 1834 to be exact, British civilisation introduced, on the shores of Van Diemen’s Land, the first children’s prison in the British empire. Not far from Port Arthur, Point Puer’s Boys’ Prison...
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Blog, Newsletter
By Harold Zwier, Robert Richter, Paris Aristotle, Robert Manne and Ralph Genende This is the transcript of a Limmud Oz session held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, on Sunday 8th June 2014, on Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Organized by Harold Zwier, the session...
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Blog, Newsletter
By Harold Zwier, Robert Richter, Paris Aristotle, Robert Manne and Ralph Genende This is the transcript of a Limmud Oz session held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, on Sunday 8th June 2014, on Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Organized by Harold Zwier, the session...
by AJDS | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog, Statements
Members of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) are dismayed that the United Israel Appeal (UIA) has brought a series of ill-considered speakers to Australia to support their 2015 fundraising campaign. Amongst these speakers are people who consistently...
by AJDS | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Statements
The following statement was issued 13 February 2015, and is co-signed by AJDS. You can download the pdf here. NEVER AGAIN: LET’S END THE DETENTION OF CHILDREN ONCE AND FOR ALL The report of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s National Inquiry into Children...
by AJDS | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Statements
Over the last two weeks we have watched the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sex Abuse conduct hearings focused on the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne and Sydney. The testimony has been shocking and profoundly disturbing. The level of deceit and lack of care...