Unravelling the mysteries of Indian-Jewish food

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

John Safran provokes and pontificates

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Seeds sown in a Season of Death

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Deborah Conway: new challenges for a brave artist

A book review by Anne Sarzin Read more

Fragile creatures: A memoir of love and pain

A book review by Anne Sarzin Read more

No one knows their destiny

Inside the Dunera story                  A book Review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Opera Australia’s stars in the second row

Book review by Anne Sarzin Read more

Quiet time with the President: A Doctor’s Story About Learning to Listen

A book review by Anne Sarzin Read more

Mitch Albom’s new Holocaust novel is about ‘price we pay for the lies we tell’

On a visit to Yad Vashem 10 years ago, Mitch Albom, the sports journalist turned inspirational book author, was struck by a story that emerged from one of the video displays. Read more

The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West

Alex Ryvchin’s book reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

The Interpretation of Cakes

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

Wisdom Grows in My Garden: a book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

If the writings of Rabbi Paul Plotkin were anything like the sermons he gave, then people would be flocking to hear him. Read more

ISRAELOPHOBIA: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred & What to do about it

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

My Father’s Shadow: a memoir – written by Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

The Angel of Kings Cross: The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading

A book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read more

Funny You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humour from the Silent Generation to Millennials

Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen reviews a book by Jennifer Caplan Read more

Book review – Care and Covenant- A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility

Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen reviews Rabbi Jason Weiner’s book. Read more

A Toast to Travel: a book review by Alan Gold

There’s a type of writing which used to be in newspapers called ‘travel porn’, which older readers may remember. Read more

What I Wish I Had Known: Resisting the Urge to Live

Jeffrey Cohen reviews Dasia Black’s book. Read more

Living in an Upside-Down World: Finding Meaning in Complex Times

Jeffrey Cohen reviews Rabbi Ralph Genende’s book. Read more

The Possibly True Story of Martin Gardiner: A Historical Novel

Jeffrey Cohen reviews the novel written by Graham Cohen. Read more

The Hunt: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus thriller

Faye Kellerman’s book reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen. Read more

How a Jewish girl went into hiding with a Nazi family

It is the last winter before Germany’s capitulation. The seventeen-year-old Anni Gmitruk walks alongside a man wearing a swastika armband. It’s dark, and the snow crackles under their shoes. They have just been to the cinema in Zerbst, a small city deep in the Third Reich, to see Heimkehr, a classic among Nazi propaganda films. Read more

The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud – reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

Maggie Anton has introduced us to a number of stories around Jewish life, beginning with her series on Rashi’s Daughters [3 novels] followed by Rav Hisda’s Daughter [2 novels] and one about personal relationships {Fifty Shades of Talmud]. Read more

Portrait of an Unknown Woman: book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen

This is Daniel Silva’s twenty-fifth novel and the 22^nd, with Gabriel Allon as the chief protagonist. Read more

Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland: A book review by Joanne McFall

Comprising of forty-four traditional folk tales associated with varying regions in Britain and Ireland, Liz Berg’s Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland is essential reading for fans of this genre. Read more

The Nazis Knew My Name: a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

This book is about Magda Hellinger. It is an amalgam of materials both from writings and stories shared by Magda as well as those she recounted through the oral histories programs of both Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre and the Visual History Foundation [often described as the Spielberg project]. Read more

The Covered Wife: a book review by Jeffrey Cohen

Over the past year or so there seems to have been a fascination in one way or another with Orthodox Judaism. Read more

Can Robots be Jewish? And other pressing questions of Modern Life: a book review by Jeffrey Cohen

Amy Schwartz serves as the opinion and book editor at Moment Magazine. Moment is one of the more independent and thought stimulating magazine in the Jewish world started by Leonid/Leibl Fein over fifty years ago and is still being published today as an independent but also inclusive journal. Read more

Frances Prince launches her book “Gift of Time”

A new book, written by well-known community personality Frances Prince is launching this week in Melbourne. Read more

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