tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10601799017722815502024-02-07T16:17:04.878+11:00The Story So FarFollowing is a snapshot of the story so far: interviews, musings and opinion pieces which have been published in a range of publications. Feel free to comment. Enjoy. Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-24444498062596792912021-11-02T10:27:00.007+11:002021-11-02T11:34:59.756+11:00Into the Lyons Den He recently penned an extended essay on one of the thorniest, intractable minefields in journalism. It is hardly surprising, then, that John Lyons has ignited passions, debates and controversy. Ori Golan To write or not to write. That is the question that John Lyons has been grappling with. More specifically, he is concerned with writing about Israel. As former editor of two of Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-58476485850360136992021-10-07T21:59:00.002+11:002021-10-07T22:10:51.390+11:00Even if you choose not to read this post, you should not say you did not know. “My name is Mehray Mezensof. I am 27 years old. I’m an ethnic Uyghur but I was born and raised in Australia so I’m an Australian citizen by birth.” This was the opening testimony of one of the witnesses who took part in the Uyghur Tribunal hearing held at Church House Conference Centre in London, recently. The tribunal is attempting to determine a very simple question: is China carryingOri Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-81817158983216428572021-06-14T22:07:00.010+10:002021-06-14T22:57:49.525+10:00Bedtime reading this is not.Last Thursday, Amnesty International published a document titled China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang.It is a deeply disturbing document. The index itself, divided into chapters, gives a flavour of the reading ahead: Violence and repression; Erasure of ethnic identity; Arbitrary Detention; Interrogations; Types of Torture and other ill-treatment.The report Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-90177589639798739742020-04-16T16:40:00.001+10:002020-04-18T11:58:26.305+10:00Five thoughts on the situation
1.The most fascinating periods in history were filled with tumult and upheaval - and art. Tales of treachery, greed and chaos provide compelling reading and fuels the imagination. So it is now, too. Songwriters, playwrights, artists and bored school kids are currently in forced confinement, but they are not in hibernation.
I love the rollicking, raucous, irreverent humour and the explosion Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-32573075750943720312020-03-28T17:30:00.000+11:002021-11-02T11:34:29.600+11:00An Open Letter to Gladys Berejiklian- Premier of NSW
Dear Gladys,
We have
not met, so here is a brief introduction: my name is Ori. I am a mathematics
teacher at a public High School in NSW.
I became a teacher by choice because I passionately believe in education. I have academic degrees in other fields,
such as Linguistics and International Relations, but I made education my
primary profession, although I also dabble in writing, voluntary Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-41421656824696444792020-03-28T17:11:00.000+11:002020-03-28T17:53:27.364+11:00The Koala photo-op we will not remember.
Israel’s President, Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin, arrived last week for an official state visit. But his visit has been marked, or marred, by the on-going extradition dispute involving Malka Leifer.
This is his first official visit to Australia, and the first of an Israeli president in 15 years. Much fanfare and preparation was invested prior to his visit, as befitting two friendly Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-1301756002319619562019-06-02T09:12:00.001+10:002019-11-23T17:59:31.833+11:00Where the Son don’t Shine
The French poet, Charles Baudelaire once remarked
that that the biggest sickness is horror of the home.
I cannot imagine what horrors Yair Netanyahu, Benyamin Netanyahu’s
son, has endured, and neither, I don’t suppose, will I ever know. But it is
patently clear that this young princeling, has not only had a life of
privilege, but also of untold drama. Otherwise how can anyoneOri Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-11684675400449336692018-07-18T10:31:00.000+10:002018-07-18T10:31:06.174+10:00From Faith book to Facebook.
Ari
Hershkowitz has already experienced a lot in life. A former member of Satmar,
Brooklyn, he has endured sexual assault, substandard education, substance addiction
and the loss of his faith. And yet he remains defiantly optimistic.
On
his Instagram page, there is a photo of Ari Hershkowitz wearing a virtual
reality headset. It pretty much sums up his story: an escape from one Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-83527857725010020452017-07-08T07:28:00.000+10:002019-11-23T18:10:48.849+11:00 "Someone I had trusted had abused that trust and I had felt powerless.”
At 15, Dassi Erlich
was repeatedly molested by Malka Leifer, the headmistress of the Adass community school in Melbourne. For years she remained silent. Now she is demanding
justice for herself and the many other victims who don’t have a voice. But the
wheels of justice, she is discovering, grind exceeding slowly.
‘I can love you and be there for you.’
Malk Leifer
Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-48055943541558063032017-02-24T00:27:00.000+11:002017-02-25T09:50:39.017+11:00"We need to stop the Silence".
When he reported that
he had been sexually abused in the Chabad
centre of Melbourne, Manny Waks discovered a culture of cover up, intimidation
and ostracism. He has since fought for recognition, reform and redress. For
himself and for the many other, anonymous, victims. He talks to Ori Golan.
In 2011, when he exposed his
story in the Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-90835586203173344652016-07-17T01:14:00.001+10:002016-07-17T01:29:45.224+10:00David Icke and the Great Lizard Show
David Icke is a one-time British football player who went on to become a sports commentator, only to take up the job of national spokesman for the Green Party in Britain. He is now a full-time conspiracy theorist.
Icke likes to recount how it all started in 1989 when he experienced neurological symptoms. Since then, Icke has peddled all manner of grandiose conspiracy Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-87530525334862609372016-07-16T00:42:00.001+10:002016-07-17T01:33:13.918+10:00Chasing the chased.
Australia's
hard-hitting policy of detaining asylum seekers in offshore detention centres
has been shrouded in secrecy. Film producer and director, Eva Orner has finally
lifted the lid on this sinister practice. It is not a ‘feel good’ documentary,
or one for the faint-hearted. Ori Golan spoke to her.
Odious,
pernicious and sinister. These are the adjectives Eva Orner chooses to Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-19043281568192011112016-04-08T01:51:00.000+10:002017-07-08T15:04:44.572+10:00מה עוד נבקש,אמור מה עוד?
מה עוד נבקש,אמור מה עוד?
תושבים כותבים לזכר
חבריהם שנפלו.
אילן חזיזה ז"ל נהרג בהיתקלות הטנק שבו נהג במארב מחבלים בלבנון.
מכל
שירי יום הזיכרון האהוב עלי ביותר הוא השיר ״אנחנו לא צריכים״,
בביצועו של שלמה ארצי. השיר נכתב על ידי אבי קורן ללחנו של שמואל אימברמן. שיר תמים בנוסח תפילה שפזמונו
מזכיר לי פסוק מתוך ספר ״ויקרא״, פרק כ”ו.
כבר
יבשו עינינו Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-45602196181982084742015-04-22T23:34:00.000+10:002016-07-16T00:59:28.335+10:00Yom Hazikaron 2015.
I am writing this from Zambia. It is a world away from Israel; from the music and programs and articles that knit Israelis together on this day. Yom Hazikaron 2015, the day of remembrance for Israel's soldiers and victims of terror. It is a day that gives all of us who were born, raised and educated in Israel pause for thought on the human price we have paid for returning to our homeland; Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-11921152731208457282014-12-18T08:11:00.001+11:002016-07-16T00:59:43.721+10:00Postcard from a Grieving City
It has been a gruelling 48 hours in Sydney, as the city
transforms from the safe haven we have always thought of it, to the scene of a
most heinous crime.
A makeshift memorial in Martin Place for the siege victims is being continually moved to accommodate the expanding rows of floral tributes
and cards.
I have lived in Sydney close to ten years now. This city has
been my home by choice Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-41262112431609390252014-11-25T00:40:00.000+11:002021-11-02T11:15:59.025+11:00Trapped / Marcus and Julie Lee
"Dubai is a delusion of grandeur"
Australian couple, Julie and Marcus, were offered a dream job
in Dubai – the Las Vegas of the Middle East. It was an offer they could not
refuse. So how did the dream
turn into a nightmare? They can now, finally, share their story. Ori Golan.
All
that glitters is not gold. It is
safe to assume that when William Shakespeare penned this Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-22223434737993708252014-09-08T07:30:00.002+10:002016-07-16T01:00:07.331+10:00When God things Happen to Bad People
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (is now making a lot of money)
Robin Sharma has clearly made a fortune from this self-help book which purports to answer life’s key questions. That is very noble, but the major flaw in this story is that it reads like a fairy tale and assumes that the reader is an infantile dimwit. The dialogues are laughable, the 'insights' are a succession of clichés and Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-66449149277308434062014-08-08T00:30:00.001+10:002016-07-16T01:00:22.707+10:00Open Mike, finally closed.
Two weeks ago, Mike Carlton, a regular columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald,
spent his words on the situation in Gaza. It is hardly surprising: everyone who
is anyone is writing about it. Not an hour goes by without my inbox spewing
another piece by someone wishing to share their wisdom, experience, insights
and knowledge about ‘the situation’. (To pre-empt anxiety, rest assured, I have
Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-31728436146626696362014-08-06T20:27:00.000+10:002016-07-16T01:00:46.849+10:00From Russia, with love.
Sinkovsky is to violin what a duck is to water.
If, like me, you’re not a connoisseur of
classical music but an irregular concert goer who can whistle the highlights of
the famous classical pieces, you’ll love Dmitry Sinkovsky. With his
tight pony tail, piercing blue eyes and trimmed goatee, he is a consummate performer.
In fact, Sinkovsky is a bundle of performers rolled into one: a Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-601997598719353742014-07-03T08:37:00.002+10:002016-07-16T01:02:14.108+10:00Our Hope is not Lost
I
have just returned from a memorial service for the three Israeli teenagers who
were kidnapped while hitch hiking and murdered in cold blood: Gil-Ad Shaer,
Eyal Yifrah, and Naftali Fraenkel. I am still in awe of this experience.
The Jewish community of Sydney, in Australia,
much like other Jewish communities across the world, is a potpourri of diverse –
often opposing – views andOri Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-48052770940182600102014-05-11T11:08:00.001+10:002016-07-16T00:54:59.851+10:00An Ambassador with Strings Attached.
As an Israeli living in the
diaspora, I find myself often being called upon to
explain, defend or clarify events relating to or taking place in Israel. It is
not an easy or enviable task being an ambassador-at-large, addressing an
all-too-often hostile audience. The questions are often rhetorical, leading or
loaded. The comments can be antagonistic, provocative and offensive. So it was like a Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-14862116094192787082014-05-10T09:41:00.002+10:002016-07-16T00:54:59.847+10:00Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave
One day, when we were in 10th grade, Ilan and I were studying for a math exam. We had to remember the proof of a formula known as “the Cosine Rule,“ but Ilan just couldn’t memorize it. “I have a cunning plan”, he told me.
That was Ilan, always full of cunning plans, constantly engineering pranks and hatching devious plots.<!-- dfp adslot -->
On the day of the exam he arrived Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-60677496378646189502014-04-13T10:02:00.002+10:002021-11-02T11:16:50.396+11:00מה נשתנה הלילה הזה?
מה נשתנה הלילה הזה?
ערב פסח. י״ב בנִיסָן
תשע״ד. בעוד כמה שעות בני ישראל בארץ ובתפוצות יישבו מסובין סביב השולחן כייאה לבני
חורין.
המצות שבו למדפי הסופרמרקטים
בסידני.המאכלים והמאחלים שבים, כמידי שנה. ובאותה מחזוריות גם הסידורים והויכוחים בעיניין
הסדר שבים. מי עושה אותו עם מי והיכן?
שמחה רבה – אביב הגיע פסח
בא.
אז מה נשתנה הלילה הזה? הרבה.
זה הסדר הראשון בלי רינת.
אחותי שאהבתיOri Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-10796592777479701192013-11-30T06:55:00.000+11:002016-07-16T00:54:59.844+10:00Getting to Zero: A Road Map
In October this year, international and national
experts on HIV and sexually transmissible infections convened in Darwin to
present their latest research and statistics relating to HIV, AIDS and sexual
health. The presentations made for grim reading.
According to Professor David Wilson from the Kirby Institute at
UNSW, during 2012, the number of new HIV diagnosis in Australia
Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060179901772281550.post-58887932627029475662013-11-29T07:56:00.001+11:002016-07-16T00:55:17.693+10:00World AIDS Day
A salute for the humans of HIV and AIDS
By Ori Golan on November 28, 2013
WHEN Judith Miller wrote her book Facing the Holocaust, she soon realised that this darkest chapter in human history was not about six million Jewish victims: it was one, plus one, plus one…This came to
mind when thinking about World AIDS Day.
I have lately been Ori Golanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15400572029971408762noreply@blogger.com0