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A special ceremony was held last week in Brisbane to recognize a Dutch family who saved a Jewish child during the Holocaust. We spoke to Dr Tibor Shalev Schlosser the interim ambassador of Israel and the Ambassador of Israel to the Pacific Island states, who represented Israel and Yad Vashem at the ceremony.

Anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel, Further rollback of virus restrictions started...SBS Jerusalem report in Hebrew with Prof Rafi Mann

Peta Jones Pellach reports on commemoration ceremonies for Yitzhak Rabin...SBS Jerusalem report in English with the latest

Find out the latest in the Australian Jewish community with Shane Desiatnik from the AJN...1.11.2020

Melbourne’s Jewish congregations, synagogues and religious leaders welcomed the easing of restrictions for religious gatherings indoors, following the fall of Covid-19 infections in Victoria, but they also expressed caution, as there will be a need to prioritise congregants who will want to participate, under the current restrictions of 10 and one faith leader. physical services.

Jewish leaders and NSW and Federal politicians praised the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies longtime CEO Vic Alhadeff, following the announcement of his retirement in mid 2021, emphasising his tireless and exemplary work for the Jewish and broader multicultural community of NSW.

Australian Holocaust survivors and Jewish leaders greeted the announcement by Twitter that they would disallow postings that deny or distort the Holocaust on their social media and news platform, a move that follows a similar policy change by Facebook a fortnight ago.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne warmly welcomed the announcement of the agreement to normalise relations between Israel and Sudan, a historic achievement towards peace between former enemies in the ME.

A commemoration to mark the 25th anniversary since the tragic assassination of the former Israeli victorious chief of staff, twice Prime Minister and Nobel Prize for Peace Laurate, Itzhak Rabin e”h, was organised online via the Zionist Federation Australia, with the participation of his daughter Dalia Rabin and his Israeli former Labour Knesset colleague Omer Bar Lev.

Anns: Enjoy the much-loved Melbourne music maestro Simon Starr in the Kadimah’s second Yiddish Parlour Gig, with his signature style of deep-grooves, upbeat Yiddish folk and soaring Hebrew anthems, as he plays guitars, double bass, trumpet, keyboard and sings - live, solo, direct from his studio.
 When: Sunday November 1 at 5pm

A Special tribute to former SBS Yiddish broadcaster, Ruth Leiser Z"L, a Child Holocaust survivor who passed away recently.

Ruth was a Child Holocaust survivor, a brave and intelligent lady who left her impact on our Yiddish listeners around Australia. Our listeners loved her and appreciated her talent and her beautiful programs. She retired from SBS at the age of 70.

Her contribution to preserve the Yiddish culture and language was extremely valuable. She also dedicated her life to educate the public about the Holocaust and to combat anti-Semitism by telling her miraculous powerful survival story to the students and visitors at the Sydney Jewish Museum. When she was just six years old Ruth, her parents and her younger brother fled their home in Lithuania after Nazi Germany invaded. Ruth's parents insisted on the four of them staying together, and they spent the next four years hiding from the Gestapo. The farmers who helped them put their own safety at extreme risk by hiding the family.

I am privileged to have met Ruth and work with her for many years.

Today as a tribute to Ruth, and her memory, we will hear her voice again talking about her family’s survivor. I conducted this interview with her in 2004

SBS NEWS IN HEBREW 25.10.2020

Do you live in Melbourne? Find out how another Melbournian managed to survive the 100+days of strict lockdown

After more than 100 days in a strict lockdown, 5 million people living in Melbourne have more freedom after Covid-19 restrictions were eased. We will find out from Melbourne Architect Giora Hoffmann how he had managed to survive the lockdown.

Shane Desiatnik with the latest news from the Australian Jewish community:

$2.5m Federal Government grant for the expansion of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre, was warmly greeted by the Adelaide Jewish community, politicians, educators and especially the 88-year-old Adelaide Holocaust survivor from Budapest and renown sculptor Andrew Steiner OAM.

Mark Regev, the former Melbourne Mt Scopus College and University graduate and current spokesman for the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, held a webinar with Australian Jews, in which he expressed his excitement over the recent agreements with the Arab Gulf States of UAE and Bahrain and predicted a bright future for Israeli-Arab relations and for Israel’s further burgeoning development, after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.