Jack Chrapot, Author at J-Wire

Inter-match AFL at the MCG

Jack Chrapot — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:56:15 +0000

The AFL received a much-needed boost on the day after last week’s grand final with the playing of the third annual Jolson-Houli Unity Cup matches on the hallowed turf of the MCG. Less than 24 hours after Cats’ skipper Joel Selwood raised the AFL’s 2022 Premiership Cup, two sets of teams made up of Jewish […]

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Et tu, Bruce?…asks Jack Chrapot

Jack Chrapot — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:33:53 +0000

I first met Bruce Hearn McKinnon at a Melbourne Football Club supporters function where he was introduced as a mentor of its then exciting indigenous recruit Liam Jurrah.

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Carr Sickness…writes Jack Chrapot

Jack Chrapot — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 05:08:54 +0000

Tonight, we sit down to read about the liberation of the Jews from slavery back in the days of the Pharaohs. When we finally get through the part about our deliverance from Egypt, we eat because after all, who can reflect about this long history of overcoming evil and nasty tyrants on an empty stomach?

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Stolen Lives, Stolen Minute

Jack Chrapot — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:26:21 +0000

In less than two months, the Games of the XXX Olympiad will take place in London; a sporting pageant featuring athletes from over 200 nations competing in 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. The programme will cover nineteen days and hundreds of hours of competition and yet, the International Olympic Committee cannot find a minute to spare during the Games to honour the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists forty years ago at Munich...writes Jack Chrapot.

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Cold Jerusalem

Jack Chrapot — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:56:00 +0000

I am in Jerusalem, a city enveloped in dismal gray shrouds of mist, clouds and rain delivered by freezing winds that originate in the arctic.
The cold chill I feel is not however, a product of the weather but stems rather from the book I recently finished reading - "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" by the controversial German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt.

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Israeli-Palestinian AFL Peace Team in Australia this Year

Jack Chrapot — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:14:17 +0000

The story of the AFL 'Peace Team' is one of them.

In 2008 a team comprising Palestinians and Israelis came to Australia for an international tournament. Sixteen teams from Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas contested the Australian Football International Cup but this one team was unique.

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