Janine Joseph
David "DuSH" Barashi, Hadassah Hospital’s head medical clown, with two young admirers.
December 8, 2022, 10:31 am
Life lessons over coffee
'Humanity, kindness and partnership … are more critical than ever'
By Janine Joseph
November 22, 2022, 3:00 pm
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes
I've always loved the word 'mitzvah', so I've been reflecting on the Talmud teaching about which I've written frequently in discussing organ donation: the greatest mitzvah is to save a life.
By Janine Joseph
August 2, 2022, 2:00 pm
The miracle of organ donation
'The greatest mitzvah is to save a life'
By Janine Joseph
Activists join Senate Democrats outside the Capitol in Washington, DC to demand action on gun control after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite
June 21, 2022, 12:00 pm
A light of hope: Australia, the US and a 50-year friendship
'Barb expressed her deep despair at what had become of her country'
By Janine Joseph
The toy butterfly on a baby's grave at Springvale Cemetery.
February 2, 2022, 10:00 am
‘Sitting at my baby’s grave, my mind turns to Auschwitz’
"Losing track of time, immersed in my thoughts, sitting, still on my son's grave, my mind returns to Auschwitz, and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated on the same day as liberation."
By Janine Joseph
Eddie Jaku reading Janine's first letter.
December 22, 2021, 2:00 pm
Recalling Eddie’s sage words of wisdom
Eddie Jaku was farewelled last week in a State Memorial Service. Many community members in Sydney and Melbourne remember the Holocaust survivor with fondness.
By Janine Joseph
A crowd of civilians and servicemen celebrates Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day in a Brisbane street on August 15, 1945. Photo: Australian War Memorial
August 17, 2020, 5:27 pm
‘We can survive anything’
'We're all being tested by this pandemic, some more dramatically than others, but we can turn to our survivors in our enforced stillness and ask ourselves what really matters'.
By Janine Joseph
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