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Jan 8, 2026, 5:43 PM

In honour of the dear Neshama of my father and teacher, Moshe Shimon Ben Pinchas Shraga and Sarah

לעילוי נשמת אבי מורי משה שמעון בן פנחס שרגא ושרה

Dec 21, 2025, 8:19 AM

Bondi Beach: from Sanctuary to Memorial

Australia was my home for the first 25 years of my life. I grew up in North Bondi, in the heavily Jewish Eastern Suburbs. My parents like many of their generation were Holocaust survivors. My mother arrived in Australia...

Jan 18, 2025, 10:58 PM

We must make them remember

Both my parents, outside the coal cellar of Ellrich where my father hid and was eventually liberated by the US forces.
At a commemoration at the Ellrich satelite camp of Dora/Mittlebrau.

Some thoughts that came to mind as I sat and listened to the second paragraph of Parshat Shmot a few times this week. ויקם מלך חדש על מצרים אשר לא ידע את יוסף A new king arose in Egypt, and he...

Aug 13, 2024, 6:48 PM

BKS Bar-Kamtza Syndrome

The Gemara (Talmud), in the tractate of Gitin, recalls an Agada (fable) of Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza and says that it was due to the mistaken identification between the two of them, that the Second Temple was destroyed. I will...

May 14, 2024, 10:15 PM

Keep politicians away from Yom Hazikaron

The headstone of Zvi Aizikovitch

Do we truly benefit from having our politicians speak at every memorial ceremony? Can the three to five minutes of clichés uttered by figures like Yitzhak Goldknopf, Miri Regev, or any minister or Knesset member, from either the coalition or...

Apr 27, 2020, 5:21 PM

In a Normal Year בשנה רגילה

Written in love and respect for my wife’s brother, Staff Seargent Zvi (Zvika) ben Moshe Nechemia and Malvina (Malchi) Izikowitch. He fell on October 10, 1973 fighting the Syrians on the Golan Heights. נכתב לכבוד ובאהבה לאח של אשתי שנפל...

Mar 12, 2019, 4:30 PM

For the sake of my people

I am a child of the Diaspora, the son of Holocaust survivors. I grew up in the sheltered Jewish community of Sydney Australia. As a teen and during my student years in Australia I was active in the Jewish...

Jan 19, 2014, 10:12 PM

Is it really a law that is needed?

This past week a law passed its first reading in the Knesset to outlaw the use of the word NAZI as an abuse of another. For example, calling Police trying to keep the peace at a demonstration NAZIs; or...

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About Me

David born in 1959, is married to Chaya and has 6 children, and 11 grandchildren. They currently live in Givat Zeev just outside of Jerusalem. David made Aliya in 1983 from Sydney Australia, was very active within the Sydney Jewish community prior to his Aliya in 1983.

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