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Iran-Israel tensions since Natanz incident, SBS Jerusalem report in Hebrew with Prof Rafi Mann 18.4.2021

SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner The last six survivors, of the 900 boys liberated fr Buchenwald met in Melbourne.  18.4.2021

The Australian Jewish community mourned the passing in Jerusalem of Isi Liebler, e”h, one of their and the Jewish world’s most effective recent leaders, who amongst many other achievements will be remembered for his fight to free the Refusniks, Jews held in the Soviet Union jails and for the right of Soviet Jews to be able to emigrate to Israel and elsewhere.

Malka Leifer who is awaiting trial in Melbourne over 74 charges of sexual abuse of students whilst she was the principal at the Addass-Israel girls’ school here, faced the 2nd committal mention at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, via video link, from the Victorian prison where she has been held since being extradited from Israel, to where she had flown in 2008.

The last six survivors, of the 900 boys liberated from the notorious Buchenwald Nazi Concentration Camp on the 11th of April, 1945, were once again able to meet-up in Melbourne, to celebrate the date with their families, as they have done for decades, following an internet only meeting last year, due to the Covid restrictions in that state.

SBS News in Hebrew 18.4.2021

SBS Jerusalem Report:  Israelis celebrate Independence Day ( English) with Peta Jones Pellach

Shane Desiatnik from the AJN: “We mourn the passing of Isi Leibler, a communal giant”…SBS Australian Jewish update with the latest from the Australian Jewish community

“My son died on my birthday and the date became my death-day” …

Rivka Nahmias, is a mother of a fallen soldier, who lost her son Ohad 23 years ago, just after his 20th birthday (Hebrew).

Jeremy Jones, Director of International and community affairs at the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs council, paid tribute to Isi Leibler.

Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, Historian Sydney University: The Holocaust of the 1000 years old Jewish community in Magdeburg Germany ( Interview in English)

SBS News in Hebrew 11.4.2021

Meet Leeron Spitzer, about her starring role as Yentl on stage in Sydney soon. (Hebrew)

The story It is based on Issac 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 Hebrew)