Sharon Berger is Program Manager at the New Israel Fund, Australia. Prior to joining NIF, she worked at Shalom, organising Limmud and the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival. Sharon is a former journalist for The Jerusalem Post, Reuters, the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Australian Jewish News.
Sharon Berger
By Sharon Berger
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Community Why Israel Is The World’s Vegan Capital
Unless you have been living under a rock you will probably already know that Israel has become the leading vegan country in the world, with 5.2% of the population eschewing all animal goods in their daily diet. This number has more than doubled since only 2010 when 2.6% of the population was vegan or vegetarian….
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Community How I Learned To Love My Jewish Curls
A version of this article was originally published in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. I never really noticed my curly hair until we moved back to Australia. It was part of me, some days it behaved, others there was a lot of frizz, some products seemed to help more than others, but I didn’t spend a…
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Community How Living In A Muslim Country Made Me Lose My Faith In Orthodox Judaism
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus 61J, an Australian Jewish publication. I had my greatest revelation about Judaism while studying Arabic in Cairo. I was in the middle of my master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Part of the course requirement was spending the summer learning a…
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