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In this week’s COVID-19 update, Disappointment for Australian vaccine researchers, Victoria relaxes its rules around face coverings,  and Western Australia permitted quarantine-free travel for people from New South Wales and Victoria.

SBS Jerusalem report in English with Peta Jones Pellach 13.12.2020

Yiddish report with Alex Dafner

The Israeli Supreme Court heard the appeal of Malka Leifer’s lawyers against her extradition to Victoria to be tried on 74 charges of sexual abuse of children when she was the Principal of the Adass Israel ultraorthodox school in Melbourne, before fleeing to Israel in 2008.

The Australian Greens Senator Janet Rice admitted that her criticism of Israeli policies during a Senate motion to honour the assassinated Israeli PM Itzhak Rabin e”h was badly timed and clumsy but, she fell short of offering an actual apology.

The ECAJ thanked the Australian Government and Foreign Minister Maris Payne for opposing 5 anti-Israel resolutions at the UN General Assembly and heard the minister reaffirm the government’s stand on opposing one sided anti-Israel resolutions, her praise of the Abraham accords, honouring of Holocaust survivors and continuation of ever closer ties with Israel.

Is the Festival of Chanukah symbolizes Jewish continuity ?  Find out more historical facts with Dr Gili Kugler,  Biblical Studies & Classical Hebrew Lecturer, Sydney University (English)

SBS Jewish Australia report with Shane Desiatnik 

The Australian Museum's Crystal Hall was named for the Jewish businessman Brian Sherman in acknowledgment of a $1 million donation the Sherman family has made to help fund the Australian Museum's most recent renovations,

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What do you know about the historical aspects of Chanukah? The Festival celebrates a military victory of the Jews over foreign rulers. The Seleucid kingdom from neighbouring Syria took control of Jerusalem in about 198 BCE.
Some 30 years later the ruler Antiochus tried to force the Jews to give up their religious practices. When he also took over their Temple, they rose up against him. Find out more....(Hebrew) Dr Gili Kugler Sydney University

The Black Shadow hacker group, who took responsibility for a cyber attack on the Israeli insurance company Shirbit on Monday, is demanding a ransom of 50 Bitcoins - worth approximately $1 million - for the data the group allegedly stole from the company's servers. Who is behind the attack? What's next? (Report in Hebrew)

SBS News in Hebrew 6.12.2020

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SBS weekly Jerusalem report with Peta Jones Pellach