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Women who wow

Today is International Women’s Day. Rebecca Davis and Sophie Deutsch celebrate a few remarkable women of the community: Judi Hausmann, Sharon Malecki, Helena Goldstein and Lauren Silvers.

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Fashionably ethical

The question of ethical consumption is a hot topic. Rebecca Davis explores some of the issues presented by “fast fashion”, while highlighting a few labels who are infusing the Jewish values of tikkun olam, bal tashchit and tzedakah into their business practice.

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Saving hearts with healing hands

Dr Yayehyirad (Yayu) Mekonnen Ejigu will become Ethiopia’s first fully-trained paediatric heart surgeon – and with the assistance of the Israeli organisation, Save a Child’s Heart, and Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, he is set to achieve his dream.

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Behind closed doors

In Australia, 1 in 4 women have experienced emotional abuse by a current or former partner, and 1 in 5 women have experienced sexual violence since the age of 15. National statistics on domestic violence are shocking and alarming, as is the silence and stigma which continue to largely shroud the issue – even in the Jewish community,

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‘We are still here’

Piles of shoes. It is a distinct memory that stands out for Ben de Winter when reflecting on his visit to Majdanek Concentration Camp on March of the Living (MOTL). He was 16 and it was snowing when he visited, the persistent Polish winter stretching into spring. And there in the darkness of memory and misery and a sea of leather, lay one small, pink shoe.

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