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Get email notification for articles from Gabrielle Briner Follow Jun. 1, 2021 1:55 PM A scandal at a leading Jewish organization in Melbourne has once again thrust the issue of equal gender representation in the top levels of Australia’s Jewish community into the spotlight – an aspiration female community members have been working tirelessly to achieve for years. Last December, Keren Zelwer was a leading candidate to join the executive of community organization Mizrachi Australia. In a secret ballot, however, she was unanimously rejected by the executive members, all of whom were male. T...

On the beach, in the storm     The twelve days of Christmas seemed to pass very quickly this time, despite the rigours and monotony of pandemic restrictions. But it’s always an ambiguous period, at least in Greece, for here the Christian belief in the Birth is complicated by a layer of folk-lore involving the Kallikantzaroi, the souls of the dead who haunt the earth at this time, with the express aim of wrecking the Tree of Life, which supports the Earth. Every Christmas these creatures, who have red eyes, cloven hoofs and monkeys’ arms and live on a diet of snakes and worms, become li...