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Alex Dafner with the Yiddish report

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent an official posthumous apology on behalf of the German Government to William Cooper, the Aboriginal leader and human rights activist who organised and led an Aboriginal League delegation to the German Consulate in Melbourne, to protest against the treatment of Jews in Germany following the Kristalnight pogrom of the 9th to 10th November 1938.

The ECAJ heard an annual report by their chief researcher Julie Nathan in which she outlined the sobering statistics of serious antisemitic incidents in Australia, which continued to raise despite an overall fall in incidents and which occurred in a year when synagogues and Jewish institutions were largely closed because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Australian academic from Melbourne University, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was freed from a prison in Iran last week, where she had been held on charges of spying since 2018, was alleged, in a propaganda film from Iran, to have converted to Judaism before  marrying an Israeli citizen there.

Can we get consular services during Covid-19 from the Israeli Embassy in Canberra? To find out we spoke to Dr Tibor Shalev Schlosser the interim ambassador of Israel and the Ambassador of Israel to the Pacific Island states. He also recently represented Israel and Yad Vashem at the ceremony in Brisbane to recognize a Dutch family who saved a Jewish child during the Holocaust. (Hebrew)

Dr Ran Porat, Monash University Melbourne brings to light fascinating information about the Israeli born migrants in Australia, based on a report he has just published, (English interview)
The Monash University report highlights important facts about the Australian Israeli community, such as demographics, education, language, their difficulties they are facing as migrants, their connection with the local Jewish community and much more..

Shane Desiatnik with the latest in the Australian Jewish community    (6.12.2020)

Australian academic released from Iranian Jail...Was she detained due to her Israeli partner?

A day later top nuclear scientist assassinated in Teheran (English Report) Who is the top scientist? Is Israel involved?

English report

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne, was released from prison in Iran in exchange for three Iranians who had been detained in Thailand. News reports claim that she was detained in Iran due to her Israeli partner.

24 hrs. after she reached Australian soil, a top nuclear scientist suspected of masterminding Iran’s nuclear program was assassinated in day light in the suburbs of Teheran.

A special report in Hebrew

SBS News in Hebrew 29th November, 2020

SBS Jerusalem report with Peta Jones Pellach in English 29.11.2020

SBS Jerusalem report in Hebrew with Prof Rafi Mann

Alex Dafner with SBS weekly Yiddish report 29.11.2020

A number of important building projects in the Jewish communities in Australia were begun and announced this week:

- The Jewish Holocaust Museum in Melbourne began its rebuilding works in the presence of the Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, Parliamentarians and Holocaust survivors and their descendants, who spoke about the importance of the museum in the education about the Holocaust and fight against intolerance and racism.

- Plans to relocate Mt Scopus College, the biggest Jewish school in Australia from its outer suburb location in Burwood to the heart of the Jewish community in the suburb of Caulfield, received a boost with the State Government’s announcement of the rebuilding of the Caulfield hospital, which sits on a large acreage that would allow Scopus to potentially relocate there in the future.

- The planned Jewish Arts Quarter in Elsternwick, in Melbourne, received a boost of $3.5m in funding from the Victorian State Government for its project of a cultural hub that will become a centre for culture in the area and a showcase of Jewish culture and arts for the state.

- The Emanuel School in Sydney received the go ahead to plan a capital works appeal to double the size of its building that will create the state of the art facilities and flexibilities required by the school’s project based learning approach.

Anns: Australia’s first Yiddish Poetica, an online open mic evening of poetry mit a Yiddishn tam (taste), proudly co-presented by Poetica, Kadimah and the Dunera Project, hosted by Poetica’s founder Miriam Hechtman.  Join as a participant or viewer for a joyful, funny and heymishe evening’s entertainment.  Weds 2nd Dec, 2020, at 7.30PM via Zoom.  Details at www.kadimah.com.au