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SBS News in Hebrew 17.1.2021

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, will be honoured as part of a massive multi-media commemoration.  Artistic and musical director for the performance, Warren Wills shared the story on this unique performance

SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has resolved differences among its councilors and updated its climate change platform to include a reference to a target of zero net emissions by 2050.

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has reached agreement with their recently elected President Dr Andre Oboler, re his earlier than previously agreed on resignation and departure date and withdrew some of the comments made regarding the reasons for his decision to resign.

The Israeli Embassy in Canberra and local Jewish leaders strongly condemned some media and Amnesty International’s claims that Israel has withheld coronavirus vaccines from Palestinians, as false, misleading and tantamount to anti-Israel propaganda.

Have you felt lonely and scared during the Covid-19 lockdown?

We will talk to Carmella Flescher who went through the full Melbourne lockdown by herself.

She shares with us her fears and anxiety of dyeing all alone with no one knowing about it. She also found a way to combat her fears and cope with the Covid-19 period

Jonathan Pollard former U.S. Navy analyst who served 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, arrived in the country 10 days ago after parole restrictions on his travel expired. We will find more about him from Harvard University Law school Professor and his lawyer Alan Dershowitz. In contrast to some commentators,  Prof Dershowitz says that Pollard didn’t spy for Israel for money and justice wasn’t done in his case. He spied for a country that was an ally of the US

Dershowitz says that Israel had no choice, they couldn’t let him in the embassy and did what ever they could do over the years to support him and commented that Netanyahu did what ever he could to bring him to Israel.

Another guest today is Edna Ferman is an author, life coach and a mentor with a mission to empower women. We will talk to her about her new book, Strong Women finish rich. (English)

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