In September last year, I wrote a piece about the safety of women and how they are treated in a school environment: https://jewishwomenofwords.com.au/we-should-not-have-to-live-in-fear I…

Sometimes the world’s problems weigh so heavily, that your very soul feels tired. I felt this kind of tiredness over the last weeks of…

Israel almost had the makings of a gender revolution in politics recently. Things were looking up for women in the lead-up to the April…

Australia has a history with the Jews.  The most famous quote from the failed 1938 Evian Conference, convened to rescue the Jews from Hitler,…

Last Friday I was stopped at Sydney airport and denied my democratic rights. I was almost in tears at the counter when the airline…

Today, I acknowledge the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their elders: past, present and emerging. I do…

At the age of 13, I dreaded one class like no other. Why? Because every time I walked in, boys asked if I’d have…

“I met you on March 23, 1996.” I dropped the card and began to cry. I knew immediately it was from my daughter, April,…

Each year at Pesach time, we sit around the table, joyfully retelling the story of the Jewish peoples’ exodus from Egypt. Half mumbling the…

  ‘Opinions are like arseholes: everybody’s got one’ – Albert Einstein Ok. Einstein probably never said that. In fact, it may have been my…