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The Australian Premier Minister Scott Morrison was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in Sydney last week, by the Zionist Federation of Australia, Zionism NSW and World Zionist Organisation, for his and his government’s outstanding friendship with Israel .

The Australian Governor General David Hurley and his wife Linda will represent Australia at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and 75th Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz, to be attended by dozens of world leaders at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem from the 22nd to 23rd January, 2020.

The Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be the special guest at the celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Keren Hayisod - United Israel Appeal, when he visits Australia as an official guest of the Australian Government, in late February or early March 2020.

Anns:

Sunday 1st December, 2019 at 5pm at the Kadimah: BOOK LAUNCH: “Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric Outback Quest of an Urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland”, Free event…  The eccentric Yiddish poet Melekh Ravitsh traversed the Australian outback in 1933 in search of a homeland for Europe’s threatened Jews. He took 90 Box Brownie photographs, annotated in Yiddish, which inspired his son, artist Yosl Bergner, to create a series of paintings.  Editor Anna Epstein has combined their stories and images to create a glorious and moving book about art and history, Jews, and white and black Australians.  Join her for the launch, by ABC broadcaster Raffy Epstein and an afternoon of entertainment including a poetry reading by Arnold Zable, a talk by Yosl Bergner’s friend Moshe Lang and an exhibition of Bergner’s magnificent paintings.

Next Thursday December 5th, 2019 @ 7:30 pm at the Kadimah, Arnold Zable Bente Kahan present an Yiddish Culture Yiddish music Yiddish Storytelling evening.  Renowned European Yiddish singer-songwriter and cultural pioneer Bente Kahan is joined by beloved Melbourne author, storyteller and activist Arnold Zable for a compelling evening of story, song and politics as they chart the effects of rising right-wing ideas both here and overseas. Born in Norway, Bente Kahan now lives in Wroclaw, Poland, where she established a foundation to restore and transform the White Stork Synagogue into a Centre for Jewish Culture and Education.  Tickets: $30 / $25 Kadimah members and concessions’ holders / $12 full-time student see www.kadimah.org.au

Rabbi Israel Koslovsky, Chabad House Mumbai India , interview in English. 

Less than a year ago, I visited the Chabad House in Mumbai and spoke to Chabad Rabbi Israel Koslovsky, who showed me the Jewish center that just been reopened with an impressive memorial to all 174 victims of the Mumbai 2008 terror attack.

Dr. Doron Goldbarsht, lawyer & lecturer "Charitable organizations finance terrorism" Hebrew Interview
Find out also about the Israeli Business Club in Sydney from Doron who established the successful club only a few years ago.

"Chanukah Celebration at the NSW Parliament House" Find out more with Evan Zlatkis 24.11.2019

Peta Jones Pellach reports from Jerusalem on three indictments against PM Netanyahu 24.11.2019

- The Jewish Board of Deputies of NSW, as well as other Jewish social welfare and religious charity organisations, have so far raised more than $23k for those who have lost property and contents in the bushfires in NSW and Qld, with the appeal continuing until the 6th December 2019.

- The Melbourne parents of Jewish students who were victims of anti-Semitic attacks and abuse in state schools recently, expressed their deep disappointment with the Victorian Government’s and Department of Education and Training’s review and recommendations re the issue of antisemitism in schools, as well as their exclusion from the review process, despite the Government and Department’s consultations with leading Jewish organisations in Victoria

"Dance me to the End of Love", the dark secret of a Sydney Holocaust Survivor, a novel by Dr Ruth Ratner.  Dr Ruth Ratner is a prominent Sydney GP. We will talk to her about her book; “Dance me to the End of Love”, that is her first novel. She skillfully portrays a Jewish family in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney. It seems like a typical Jewish family of Holocaust survivors and you will reorganize many characters in her story.
But there is a dark secret from the past, from the dark days of the Holocaust and adding to the mystery is a stranger appears at their Shabbath table.

Secret success of Israel as a start-up nation, with Yael Baratz.  Yael Baratz, a partner at a prominent Israeli law firm who explains the secret success of Israel as a start-up nation. The Three main reasons as Yael sees it are the Army that cultivates the best brains, Government incentives, finance and investments and Universities that assist to transfer the knowledge and research to the commercial market.  Our interview today is in English

Peta Jones Pellach reports on two days of intensive fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad 17.11.2019

Rockets from Gaza and chances of new Israeli gov. main topics today with Prof Rafi Mann 17.11.2019