Esther Jilovsky, at The Blogs

Mar 20, 2019, 10:17 AM

Tragedy in Christchurch: God Defend New Zealand

Waleed on the Christchurch Terrorist Attacks
“You’ll have to forgive me, these won’t be my best words...”On this heartbreaking day, Waleed reflects and calls for unity______________Update: Scott Morrison's office has contacted The Project to deny the 2011 report on comments he has alleged to have made within a shadow cabinet meeting
Posted by The Project on Friday, March 15, 2019

Late on Thursday night, California time, the posts started appearing on Facebook. A shooting. At mosques. In Christchurch, New Zealand, the country where I had spent four very happy childhood years. At first the news spoke of multiple causalities,...

About Me

Dr Esther Jilovsky is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. A native of Melbourne, Australia, she comes to the rabbinate with a PhD from the University of London and a Masters in Jewish Studies from the University of Oxford. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, she is the author of Remembering the Holocaust: Generations, Witnessing and Place and co-editor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation.