Shalom News 28/11/2023
Join us all year and celebrate the past, present and future of Jewish education, culture and arts in Australia. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria
Who Will be For Us
Who Will Be For Us? Unpacking antisemitism with David Baddiel & Alex Ryvchin Recorded at the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, 27 August 2023 David Baddiel, author of bestselling non-fiction polemic 'Jews Don’t Count', joins
Hard to Bear – Isabelle Oderberg
Over 150,000 Australian families are affected by miscarriage every year. It is the most common pregnancy complication yet is surrounded by silence. Isabelle Oderberg was in conversation with journalist Gabrielle Jackson. SJWF was pleased to host
PJ Library Educators Workshop
Shalom PJ Library had the great pleasure of hosting an Educators Workshop facilitated by authors Hanoch Piven and Shira Hecht-Koller. Inspired by the newly released book 'Dream Big, Laugh Often' as a tool for teaching,
The Night Travelers – Armando Lucas Correa
Armando Lucas Correa joined us again at Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, this time to launch his latest book, The Night Travelers. “To get to the other side, you must travel as lightly as possible.”
RBG
It’s hard to know where to start, so let’s start at the end of the night with cake! Celebrating the notorious, brilliant, iconic and wise Ruth Bader Ginsburg on what would have been her 90th
The Atlas of Jewish Food – Claudia Roden
The Atlas of Jewish Food is a new series exploring Jewish Cookbooks all over the world. For our first event we were thrilled to have the esteemed cookbook writer and anthropologist Claudia Roden as our
Secrets Beyond the Screen
SJWF had the pleasure of hosting Anita Jacoby in conversation with Michael Visontay at Gertrude & Alice cafe bookstore. Anita Jacoby AM is one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers. Now she uncovers one of
It’s A Shame About Ray
Jonathan Seidler in conversation with Michaela Kalowski An extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this memoir traverses family, death, hope, love, survival, compassion
Dr Rachel Naomi Remen in conversation with Miriam Hechtman
To mark the publication of her first children’s book The Birthday of the World: A Story about Finding Light in Everyone and Everything, author and doctor Rachel Naomi Remen offers us insights into her life’s