2025 PROGRAM
Ruptured Lives, Resilient Voices
DATE:
Sunday 22 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Manly Youth Centre
COST:
$25.00
Ruptured brings together the voices of Jewish women in Australia reflecting on life after 7 October 2023—an event that continues to send seismic shockwaves worldwide. Elana Benjamin, Joanne Fedler, Lee Kofman, and Kylie Moore-Gilbert share essays that wrestle with grief, fear, belonging, faith, and the fractures that opened in both public and private life, and, more recently, were highlighted in Australia by the Hanukkah attack in Bondi. They explore what it means to be shaken by history, how to live with rupture, and the fragile, necessary work of repair. Content note: This session includes discussion of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that some people may find challenging.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.