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Shane Desiatnik with the latest from the Australian Jewish community:  A Melbourne Holocaust survivor, Marianne Schwarz, Victoria’s oldest COVID-19 survivor

Alex Dafner Yiddish report 16.8.2020 

The Melbourne Jewish Care Victoria’s Hannah & Daryl Cohen Family Home for the elderly suffered the impact of rising Covid-19 infections in the state this week, with one resident dying and 27 others as well as 20 staff infected with the virus.

A Melbourne Holocaust survivor, Marianne Schwarz, who was born in Vienna and survived the Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen Nazi concentration camps, became Victoria’s oldest COVID-19 survivor, as she marked her 98th birthday at the Cabrini Malvern Hospital on Saturday, where she had spent three weeks being treated for COVID-19.

Eleven leading, Australian Jewish Organisations joined 113 others around the world in a petition urging Facebook to adopt the International Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, to try to curb the rise of hate and antisemitic posts on its social media platforms.

Nineteen Australian Jewish Organisations have come together to support a statement demanding the Australian government change its policy of offshore processing of the unauthorised boat arrivals of asylum seekers to Australia.

Earlier on I spoke Shane Desiatnik, senior Journalist at the Australian Jewish news. I mentioned to Shane that Jewish community leaders bid farewell to the Israeli Ambassador in Australia, Mark Sofer and his wife Sarah, who are returning to Israel following the completion of their 3-year term here,

Lebanon in crisis after the blast...what's next? Dr Ori Gudes (Hebrew)

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The full story behind Lebanon Blast ( In Hebrew with Nitza Lowenstein)

Dozens killed and thousands have been injured in a massive explosion in Lebanon's capital city, Beirut last week. Dr Ori Gudes, a lecturer at UNSW, who spent many years in South Lebanon during his IDF service talks about the disaster and hopes that Iran will stay out of Lebanon. He reminds our listeners that Israel retreated from the security zone in Lebanon 20 years agoSee: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ded57227ddf4c80b03e1ba93530ab8b?locale=he

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Farewell to the Israeli Ambassador in Australia, Mark Sofer 

Yiddish Report with Alex Dafner, 9.8.2020The Melbourne Jewish Community, like many other, felt the impact of rising Covid-19 infections, when 11 residents in two of Jewish Care Victoria elders’ homes, tested positive for the virus, forcing the implementation of the strictest infection care and prevention methods and procedures.

Jewish schools in Melbourne, like others, returned to home-distance learning to the great disappointment of year 12 students in particular, with all principals expressing their school’s greater preparedness for such learning and their desire to keep students, staff, parents and the community as safe as possible from infection with the coronavirus.

Jewish community leaders bid farewell to the Israeli Ambassador in Australia, Mark Sofer and his wife Sarah, who are returning to Israel following the completion of their 3 year term here, a time marked by a great strengthening of relations and agreements between the two nations, but also much disruption, caused by three elections in Israel, the Australian bushfires, the Malka Leifer case and now the Covid-19 pandemic.

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