Written by Yvonne Fein and directed by Charles Slucki (z”l) Commissioned by the Jewish Museum of Australia in conjunction with the National Council of Jewish Women […]
Led by Kath Duncan, (Research Associate/Chairperson, ARC research project, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne), this was a challenging, illuminating and inspiring experience. My imagination […]
The Comedy Lab: Stand Up for Disability Rights, in conjunction with the University Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts. Led by Mary Luckhurst ( Associate […]
A reading of my piece entitled ‘Just Words’ for Passionate Tongues held at the East Brunswick Hotel, Melbourne. This is an evening of spoken word held […]
“Jewish women,” writes Shira Schmidt (AJN 9/6/2000 Finding Hannah’s Voice) “do not pray like Jewish men.” With that truism begins her contentious article that women should […]
Published by Hippocampus Magazine, November 2017https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/11/taunting-the-abyss-by-y-l-fein/ Almost 30 years ago, Mary-Claire King located the region on the genome that became known as the BRCA1 gene. Later […]
The mathematics of language has always enthralled me, the way it calculates. But the language of mathematics has always eluded me. Still there are those — […]
There are two beginnings to this tale but perhaps I should allow Marc Chagall and Isaac Bashevis Singer first words. Fabulists of phrase and image, surely […]
At eighteen, armed with a driver’s license, I found an entirely new way of indulging my old love of shortcuts. Traffic-light-evading routes, corner-cutting byways along the […]