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Jewish worshippers in Brisbane were attacked, spat on and insulted with antisemitic and Nazi slogans and salutes, when they came out of the Margaret St., Synagogue last Friday evening, but thanks to the swift action by the Jewish Community Security Group and police one alleged attacker was arrested.

The “March of the Living” - MOTL Organisation in Sydney held a touching internet link-up evening with Nobuki Sugihara , the son of Chiune Sugihara, the WWII Japanese Consul in Lithuania who saved some 6,000 Jews from almost certain death, by issuing them with illegal exit visas, which allowed them to escape the Nazis via Russia to Japan and China, mainly finding a haven in Shanghai, before coming to Australia and other countries after the war.

Alex Dafner with SBS Yiddish report, 21.2.2021

The well loved and respected Holocaust survivor, Sydney Holocaust Museum guide and author Lotte Weiss e”h, originally from Bratislava, Czech Republic, passed away at the age of 97 last week.

Two Jewish weddings and two Bar Mitsvahs scheduled for last weekend in Melbourne, were quickly and successfully brought forward to Friday, to just beat the Covid-19 lockdown deadline, imposed in the State of Victoria on that day at 11.59PM.

Ruthy Pribar, screen writer and Director of "Asia" Israeli movie with Shira Haas (English interview)

The Jewish International film Festival (JIFF) is back around Australia from 17-February

Peta Jones Pellach reports on the latest Covid 19 statistics and the world's first laboratory made rib-eye steak.

The Jewish International film Festival (JIFF) is back around Australia from 17-February

Our guest is  Nir Bergman: Director of the movie,  Here we are, Hine Anachnu

Aharon has devoted his life to raising his autistic son Uri. They live together but now as a young adult, it is time for Uri to go to a special home to be with people his age.

It is very difficult to Aharon to to give up his son, and while they are on the way to the institution on court orders, Aharon runs away with his son

"Iranian Spy claim that Kylie Moore-Gilbert is ridiculous" SBS Australian Jewish update with Shane Desiatnik

Warren Will talks about his play Night of Broken Glass, about A Forgotten Australian Response to the Horror of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ The heroism of William Cooper, a Yorta Yorta elder who protested Nazism

interview in Hebrew

Warren Will talks about his play Night of Broken Glass,  about A Forgotten Australian Response to the Horror of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ The heroism of William Cooper, a Yorta Yorta elder who protested Nazism

interview in Hebrew

SBS Weekly Yiddish report with Alex Dafner 14.2.2021

The Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne expressed the Government’s “deep concern” with the determination of the International Criminal Court, that it has the jurisdiction to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in the Palestinian controlled territories.

Australian Jewish leaders and Parliamentarians rejected the controversial Senator Pauline Hanson’s call for banning the open displays of swastikas and ISIS symbols in Australia, recalling her hateful history of rallying against multiculturalism, anti-Muslim, anti-Asian immigration and our ethnically diverse society.

Reports that the Australian Jewish academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was jailed in Iran on charges of spying because the Iranians wanted to lure her then Israeli-Australian husband to Tehran to arrest him, were rejected by sources from the Israeli intelligence community.

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. Hebrew interview  not to be missed

SBS News in Hebrew 7.2.2021