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"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 spoke 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 Sabbath table.

"Auschwitz Artefacts from inmates possession at the Sydney Jewish Museum" Shane Desiatnik 17.11.2019

    Also in the news:Jewish members of communities affected by the horrendous bushfires in NSW have described the terrible conditions they and their neighbours faced in the past couple of weeks, whilst several Jewish organisations have opened shelters for any persons who have been evacuated and provided food to fire-fighters and other volunteers.

The anniversary of the Kristallnacht Pogrom of the 9th to 10th November 1938, perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews, their community, their homes, synagogues, organisations and businesses in Germany and Austria, was commemorated in Melbourne and Sydney with the guest speaker Dr Stephen Smith, Director of the US Shoah Foundation.

Jewish members of communities affected by the horrendous bushfires in NSW have described the terrible conditions they and their neighbours faced in the past couple of weeks, whilst several Jewish organisations have opened shelters for any persons who have been evacuated and provided food to fire-fighters and other volunteers.

- The Jewish Board of Deputies of NSW, as well as other Jewish social welfare and religious charity organisations have begun fundraising activities amongst the Jewish community to assist those who have lost property and contents in the bush-fires in NSW and Qld.

Peta Jones Pellach reports from Jerusalem on the appointment of Naftali Bennett as Defence Minister in the caretaker government.

The high profile Australian delegation, which visited Israel and included former Liberal PM John Howard, former Labor Treasurer Wayne Swan, former Liberal Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, former Liberal Defence Minister Brendan Nelson and former Labor Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, participated in the moving annual commemoration of the ANZACs who fought to liberate Bersheva on the 31st November 1917 and some of whom fell and are buried at the ANZAC cemetery there.

- The high level Australian delegation of former ministers and local Jewish leaders, participating in the annual commemoration of the ANZACs who fought to liberate Bersheva in WWI, expressed their deep emotions, pride and respect for the fallen ANZACs and praised the IDF for their heroic and determined effort to protect the Jewish State and its people.

- The anniversary of the Kristallnacht Pogrom of the 9th to 10th November 1938, perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews, their community, their homes, synagogues, organisations and businesses in Germany and Austria, is being commemorated in Australia and around the world.

Anns:

Kristallnacht Commemorations with guest speaker Dr Stephen Smith, Director of the Shoah Foundation, USA, are taking place in:

Melbourne, tonight Sunday 10th Nov at 7.00PM at the St Kilda Town Hall, tickets from the Jewish Holocaust Centre’s website www.jhc.org.au  

Sudney, Thursday 14th Nov at 6.30PM at the Jewish Museum, tickets from the JBDNSW website, www.nswjbd.org

Smash the glass ceiling... Prof. Mona Khoury-Kassabri Interview in Hebrew

Our guest is Vic Alhadeff the CEO, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, former Chair, Multicultural NSW; Vic expresses his concern in light of the continuing upsurge in anti-Semitic incidents in Australia. We are talking about anti-Antisemitism in Australia on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht Pogrom of the 9th to 10th November 1938, considered to be the start of the Holocaust.
81 years later and we are concerned about anti-Antisemitism in Australia. The Holocaust was the culmination of centuries of anti-Antisemitism stretching back past the medieval ages, The Spanish Inquisition, the Dreyfus Trial, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the pogroms in Russia. Unfortunately, the Holocaust and the initial sympathy has not resulted in an end to anti-Antisemitism.  

Tragic death of  Emanuel School student while kite-surfing, the latest news with Shane Desiatnik

Meet Israeli migrant Limor Dekel, Artist and Art teacher (interview in English)

Prof Rafi Mann, the latest "Plonter" in forming a government"... Our Jerusalem report in Hebrew 3.10.19