Bolt: I’d defend Israel even if every one of its leaders were like Michael...
By Andrew Bolt: Editor: This article was originally published in the Business Spectator on April 3 (Hat tip: Anthony Frosh). Andrew Bolt responds to Michael Gawenda’s column (Why Andrew Bolt’s distress...
View ArticleBob Carr: Foreign Policy Subcontracted to Jews and Pessach Break
From the editor: We publish a selection of excerpts and links to today’s revelations. From The Sydney Morning Herald: “Former foreign minister Bob Carr has published private text messages between...
View ArticleAntisemitism: A Good Idea to Find the Real Culprit
By Sol Salbe: While translating an article about antisemitic attacks in Sweden it occurred to me that the automatic blaming of the usual suspects occurs here, in Australia, as well. Several incidents...
View ArticleWhere Has Our Humanity Gone?
By Shira Sebban: As an Australian Jew, I am ashamed by the treatment of asylum seekers in both Australia and Israel. I watch bewildered as the two countries I love descend further in a harsh morass of...
View ArticleLabouring in Vain? The ALP, The Jewish Community, and Israel
By Dashiel Lawrence: Somewhere in Israel stands a small JNF forest named in recognition of former ally and friend of the Jewish state, Bob Carr. The forest was bestowed in Carr’s honour back in 1996;...
View ArticleJust How Far Right Is Spiritgrow? Odd Goings On at Wheeler and Ari Shavit...
From the Editor: While Galus usually avoids the Israel Palestine issue, preferring to focus on issues Antipodean, we believe three recent stories bring the conflict in the Middle East closer to home...
View ArticleThe absurd life within a world devoid of truth
By Tal Spinrad: Without truth, even love is delusional. - Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk I have three beautiful kids. Eli, aged a tad short of seven, and a set of twins, Gavi and Reuvi, aged five and a half....
View ArticleComment: the great Caulfield debate
By Bracha Rafael: The Zionist Youth Council of Victoria and AUJS Victoria recently hosted a political debate between the major contenders for the seat of Caulfield: the incumbent Liberal MP, David...
View ArticleUIA chooses fear over hope
By Julie Szego: Brigitte Gabriel at UIA Victoria Women’s Division Campaign Launch Breakfast 3 March 2015 American author Brigitte Gabriel has been labelled a “radical Islamophobe.” In 2008, she told...
View ArticleSomething New; Project Zug; From Jewish Care
picture courtesy growingself.com By Alex Fein: Hi all. I’m back, taking over from Bracha, for another tour of duty as editor at this Melbourne Jewish institution. Over the years, Galus has provided its...
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