SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner, 2.5.2021

Australian Jewish leaders and leading organisations have called for the Australian and Israeli governments to recognise the Armenian genocide as such, following the recognition of the genocide by US President Joe Biden last week.

Israeli media are reporting that imminent charges will be lodged against the former Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman, who two years ago was accused of pressuring psychiatrists giving evidence in the hearings into the mental fitness of Malka Leifer to be extradited to Australia.

Several Jewish Australians accepted the offer of dual citizenship with Austria, granted by that state to the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Austrian Jews murdered or exiled by the Nazis following the tragic events of 1938.

Yentl is coming to Sydney and the star is Leeron Spitzer (English)

Our guest will be the Israeli actress Leeron Spitzer, who lives in Sydney. Leeron will talk about her starring role as Yentl on stage in Sydney.
The story It is based on Isaac Beshavis Singer’s story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” and best known for the 1983 movies with Barbra Streisand. A fascinating story of a19th Century Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to study the Talmud. The play focuses on the spiritual equality of women in a 19th Century segregated Jewish society that didn’t see women as equals to men (Interview in English)

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