Sensible Jew is a one-person website that was one of the first of the local Jewish Australian web2.0 presences.
Alex Fein’s views are not on the left, but she’s provocative, and like many other people it seems, wants more informed, and particularly respectful discussion, particularly because there was pretty much an organized campaign to mock her questioning of community ‘leadership’.
Category: Useful Links
A couple of younger Melbourne Jewish writer-thinkers run an interesting website: Galusaustralis. It’s not a political website, its a mix of culture, religion, politics.
They too, are sick and tired of the one-party community.
A lot of the commentary is conservative, some of it comes from people associated with AJDS, some of it is very provocative, but its one of the few opportunties for people to exchange views, and sometimes, they are even funny!
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Due to the miracle of the internet, many of the old AJDS website pages can be accessed via the internet archive Decode Jerusalem is a free independent alternative travel guide to East Jerusalem. It invites you to stroll around places that are hardly mentioned in conventional travel guides and aims at letting you discover some crucial aspects that the Israeli occupation, going on since 1967, brings with it. Decode Jerusalem is a free independent alternative travel guide to East Jerusalem. It invites you to stroll around places that are hardly mentioned in conventional travel guides and aims at letting you discover some crucial aspects that the Israeli occupation, going on since 1967, brings with it. Yoni Goodman, one of the creators of “Waltz with Bashir”, which won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award, today has launched a new animated short film entitled “Closed Zone”. He created the short for “Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement”. The 90-second film mixes animation with realistic shots to depict the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel for more than 1.5 years. This site is named after a street in Hebron near the Tomb of the Patriarchs that has been closed for many years and has been the subject of many legal challenges. The site is from South Africa. http://southjerusalem.com/ is a progressive (and orthodox) blog by a number of concerned Jerusalem residents. Gershom Gorenberg also writes for the American Prospect magazine. ‘The only place in the world where you can be a left-wing, skeptical Orthodox Zionist Jew and feel like you are part of a mass movement.’ It’s an eyopener of a site. The New Israel Fund (NIF) is the leading organization committed to democratic change within Israel. Since 1979, NIF has fought for social justice and equality for all Israelis. We believe that Israel can live up to its founders’ vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, without regard to religion, race or gender.