By Ruth Edmonds In 1948, when hearing of the massacres by Zionist militias in Deir Yassin, the residents of al Walaja, a village located between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, fled their land across the valley to…
By Brett Nathan Permaculture is a design method focused on agriculturally productive systems. The word ‘permaculture’ is a portmanteau of ‘permanent agriculture’, and was conceived in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in Tasmania…
By Danya Jacobs Victoria’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum, was thought to be extinct until the tiny marsupial was rediscovered in 1961 in the giant Mountain Ash forests that encircle Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and blanket…
I was always puzzled by the climate change debate. In the early 1990s, it was becoming apparent that increasing amounts of evidence indicated that human activity was rapidly changing the earth’s atmosphere and climate
By Jemima Light Jordan Valley Solidarity (JVS) is a Palestinian-led, grassroots community group. Palestinians and international volunteers work together to protect both Palestinian existence and the unique environment of the Jordan Valley. This is done…
In October, the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) hosted an informal evening event with Prof. Jeff Halper, Co-ordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), a peace and human rights organisation that resists the…
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) fully endorses the following statement by the Jewish Labor Bund in regards to the Abbott government’s new asylum seeker policies.
Interview with Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian occupied territories. Originally published in Arena Magazine, Issue No 126, October/November 2013.
Limmud Fest is a weekend retreat from November 22-24 with a Limmud style program, ‘combining a passion for Jewish learning, culture and discussion with a rural atmosphere and unique shabbat experience, set in beautiful natural surrounds’.
Limmud Fest is a weekend retreat from November 22-24 with a Limmud style program, ‘combining a passion for Jewish learning, culture and discussion with a rural atmosphere and unique shabbat experience, set in beautiful natural surrounds’.