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Join us for an immersive weekend festival of Jewish ideas and culture, with >100 presenters and sessions to choose from.
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Can the centre hold?
Monday June 9, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm AEST
SG.10 - Rm 5
It feels like political discourse is more polarised than ever, and that the Jewish world is no different with increasing and more strident division in Israel and in diaspora communities. Join a discussion on whether this trend is as pervasive and severe as it feels and the impacts of polarisation through perspectives of news, politics and Jewish community engagement and activism.  


Speakers
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Josh Burns

Josh Burns is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party, he was elected as the member for the division of Macnamara in Melbourne at the 2019 Australian federal election. He was re-elected in 2022 and 2025.
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Deborah Stone

Deborah Stone is Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Independent. She is a former Editor of ArtsHub and the Australian Jewish News and has worked as a reporter and feature writer on The Age, The Sunday Age and The Australian.
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Naomi Levin

Naomi Levin is Chief Executive Officer at the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV). She has previously held a number of roles in Jewish organisations in Australia, including Senior Policy Analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) and Deputy Editor at... Read More →
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Mandi Katz

Mandi Katz is a Melbourne-based governance professional in the financial services industry by day, and a Jewish community activist the rest of the time
Monday June 9, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm AEST
SG.10 - Rm 5
  Society and politics

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