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Peta Jones Pellach reports on Purim celebrations in defiance of a curfew and the continuing clean-up after a major oil spill off the coast.

SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner...

Jewish aged care organizations and eminent health experts warmly welcomed the unveiling of the national Covid-19 vaccination program in Australia and expressed their readiness and support for the program, whilst reassuring and urging the Jewish community to get behind it and to get vaccinated as soon as it becomes possible.

The Australian Parliament this week reaffirmed its promise to never forget the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, when it moved a bipartisan motion to that effect, proposed by the Jewish MP Julian Leeser, whilst marking last month’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The Victorian Government together with the Gandel Philanthropy, announced $150,000 in funding for the rollout of a pilot program, developed with the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre and focusing on teacher training, to enable them to institute compulsory education about the Holocaust in years 9 and 10 of the curriculum in Victorian State Secondary schools.

Can you bring peace to the Middle East by sharing food?

Beth Elise Hawk, is the producer and Director of Breaking Bread, a fascinating documentary about exotic cuisine and a side of politics on a menu.

Dr Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, the first Muslim Arab to win Israel’s MasterChef television competition is on a quest to make social change through food.

 In an effort to affect change, she founded the A-Sham Arabic Food Festival in Haifa where pairs of Arab and Jewish chefs, collaborate on local dishes.

The Jewish International film Festival (JIFF) is back around Australia till mid-March

Maya Zinshtein Director of documentary, Til Kingdom come about the millions of American Evangelicals that are praying for the state of Israel as they believe that the Jews are crucial to Jesus’s return (Hebrew)

SBS Jewish Australian Update. today with Evan Zlatkis, senior journalist at the AJN  28.2.2021

Our guest today is Maya Sarfaty, Director, Screen writer of, “Love it was not”, Ahava, zo Lo Hai-ta

An incredible documentary, the tragic love story between a prisoner and her captor.

A true story of Helen Citron who was taken to Auschwitz and was saved by the SS Nazi officer Franz Wunsch who fell in love with her.  30 years later she receives a letter from the officer’s wife begging Helena to testify on Wunsch’s behalf. English interview today

Shane Desiatnik senior journalist at the AJN: Holocaust survivor, Lotte Weiss,  passed away at  97 last week. SBS Australian Jewish update 21.2.2021

SBS News in English 21.2.2021

SBS Jerusalem Report in Hebrew with Prof Rafi Mann

Peta Jones Pellach with SBS Jerusalem Report in English