Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver is not your average Australian Jew. True, she is one of this country's 110,000 or so tribal members, but she is also a member of another tribe - an Aboriginal tribe called the Wiradjuri.
And yet, despite the seeming rarity of an Aboriginal Jew, Professor Jackson Pulver says she is not alone. 'The first Jew came here on the First Fleet in 1788 and since then Jews have been marrying Aborigines because white women wouldn't marry them,' she said this week. 'There's a big mob of black Cohens out there and they've got Jewish ancestry.' Read more
