Past Programs
Judaism - 2007
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Jewish Ritual Objects Read Transcript
02/12/2007
The Jewish tradition is full of rituals, old and new, and in Australia artists are creating new ritual objects (Judaica) now on display at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne. The cup for a girl's naming ceremony and tiny dreidels (spinning tops) for Hanukkah are among the objects that curator Rebecca Forgasz has included in this third such exhibition since 1991.
The Word of God Times Three: Part 2 Read Transcript
02/09/2007
Frank Peters, from New York University, explains the Christian understanding of Revelation, and how they came to possess a different Old Testament to the Jews.
The Word of God Times Three: Part 1 Read Transcript
26/08/2007
Frank Peters at New York University begins this three part series, looking at how revelation and transmission is understood in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.
Torah in Space Read Transcript
29/07/2007
The first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, on the U.S. space shuttle Columbia took up a little Torah Scroll that his Physics professor Joachim Joseph received when he had a secret Bar Mitzvah as a boy in the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen Belsen.
Ikey Solomon, Another Australian Icon? Read Transcript
21/01/2007
Charles Dickens' Fagin in Oliver Twist is one of the most disagreeable Jewish characters in English literature. The man on whom Dickens partly based him was Ikey Solomon.
