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How can communities in Australia work together to address antisemitism and promote understanding after events like the Gaza war?

By Christine Chen SYDNEY, May 25 (Reuters) - Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish people, the country's spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Monday. The comments came during public hearings in the wide-ranging inquiry known as a ​Royal Commission that focus on the events leading up to last December's Bondi attack, which killed 15 attending a Jewish Hanukkah celebration

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Healthcare

Repairing the Broken

Repairing the Broken The phone rang at two in the morning like a siren in a war zone. I sat up quickly and answered the call in a hushed voice, careful not to wake my wife or the children who had found their way into our bed during the night. How unaffected we become even by the most unusual and extreme circumstances when those circumstances become routine. There is nothing normal about waking from deep sleep to make decisions that mean life or death. Nothing normal about rushing into work as...

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Culture

C. S. Lewis’s Philosophy of Gender

Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve:C. S. Lewis’s Images of Genderby joshua phillip herring234 pages, davenant Press, $31.95 When Lucy steps through the wardrobe into Narnia and runs into. The post C. S. Lewis’s Philosophy of Gender appeared first on First Things

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Education

Can Yale Lead Reform?

In early April, Yale University released the “­Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education.” The faculty committee had been formed a year earlier, charged with the. The post Can Yale Lead Reform? appeared first on First Things

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