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Australia's political leaders have joined faith leaders to show solidarity with New Zealand following the Christchurch terror attacks. Fifty people were killed after a gunman opened fire during afternoon prayers at two mosques on Friday a week ago. I prepared for you a special update surrounding the attack. 

Peta Jones Pellach reports on the passing of legendary spy, Rafi Eitan; the murder of 2 Israelis near Ariel and the latest on the rivalry between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Benny Gantz.

Prof Rafi Mann with Israeli election's update 24.3.2019

New Zealand’s only Jewish school in Auckland and all NZ Synagogues were shut on the Monday following the previous Friday’s shootings in two Mosques in Christchurch, where an Australian gunman killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens of others.

Representatives of the NZ Jewish Council visited Christchurch to express their condolences to the Islamic community, following the previous Friday’s shootings in two Mosques in Christchurch, where an Australian gunman killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens of others, and undertook to raise $100K to assist the families of those killed and wounded in the attacks.

The Australian Jewish community and leaders expressed their shock and deep felt condolences to the Islamic community of Christchurch following the heinous shootings in the two Mosques in Christchurch, where an Australian gunman killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens of others and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies undertook to raise funds to assist the families of those killed and wounded in the attacks.

The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison reaffirmed his government’s 2018 policy of the recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the eventual move of the Australian embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, after a comprehensive agreement over the status of the city is reached between Israel and the Palestinians and he contrasted the policy with that of the Australian Labor Party.

Australian accusers of Malka Leifer who is wanted in Victoria to be tried over 74 cases of sexual abuse and rape of female students at the ultra-orthodox Addass Israel Girls’ School in Melbourne, were buoyed in Israel by a crowd of some 100 supporters, including the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, as they prepared to enter the Jerusalem district court to hear the 48th session into Malka Leifer’s ability to be extradited to stand trial in Victoria.

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Sunday March 24, 5pm at the Kadimah
The Kadimah invites you to the celebration of the legacy of Melbourne Yiddish cultural pioneers Nachman and Rywka Gryfenberg in the latest edition of the Kadimah’s Goldene Kayt (golden chain) series. Danielle Charak OAM, Floris Kalman and their families invite you to join them for an afternoon of film, song and food to honour their late parents, grandparents and respected Kadimah elders. Details www.kadimah.org.au

Prof Rafi Mann will bring us the latest from Jerusalem. This time Israeli election update…

Happy Purim!  Erev Purim is on Wednesday 20th March. We will celebrate Purim with you today with Purim songs, history and customs and will talk to young Rebbetzin Chani Schapiro about the Festival.

"Two Rockets were fired to Tel Aviv from Gaza"...Don't miss the latest from Jerusalem with Peta Jones Pellach 17.3.2019

The Jewish LGBTIQ Dayanu group in Sydney, will host the 25th Jewish International LGBT+ Congress, running over five days, starting on the eve of the Purim festival on the 21st March 2019, at the Emanuel Synagogue, an event that will include speakers, presentations and entertainment from representatives from around the world and Australia, including Dr Kerryn Phelps MP, the first lesbian Jewish woman to be elected to the Australian Parliament.

There was outrage in Australia and in Israel when an expert witness from New York, Dr Brian Trappler, a psychiatrist and ultra-orthodox Jew, brought out by the defence in the hearings in Jerusalem into the mental health of Malka Leifer and her ability to be extradited to stand trial in Victoria over 74 cases of sexual abuse and rape of female students at the ultra-orthodox Addass Israel Girls’ School in Melbourne, claimed her to be innocent and being pursued by a lynch mob, on the grounds that her accusers were not orthodox religious women.

The Hakoah Club in Sydney has submitted plans to the Woollahra Council to build a Jewish community and sports complex at White City, with a worth of more than $40m.

The Jewish LGBTIQ Dayanu group in Sydney, will host the 25th Jewish International LGBT+ Congress, running over five days, starting on the eve of the Purim festival on the 21st March 2019, at the Emanuel Synagogue, an event that will include speakers, presentations and entertainment from representatives from around the world and Australia, including Dr Kerryn Phelps MP, the first lesbian Jewish woman to be elected to the Australian Parliament.

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The Kadimah invites you to the “In One Voice Jewish Culture Festival”, today Sunday March 17th, 2019 in Selwyn St, Elsternwick, 11am-5pm  Cost: free   Raucous, joyous and infectious, the Yiddish exuberance of 22-piece band YID! will kick off this year’s festival concert at 12pm so don’t be late! Five hours of music including a surprise international guest, Jewish cookbook baroness Delia Barron ruling the Nosh Tent, a shouk of Jewish community group stalls, With One Brush art show, kids’ activities and lots of yummy food - In One Voice has something Jewish for everyone. See you there!

Celebrate International Women's Day, with Nitza Lowenstein. Find out how it all started and also about women in Israel.

The following paragraphs are taken from the AJN 8.3.2019: "On International Women’s Day we globally celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women...  We are all working women. We are stay at home mums. We are lawyers, doctors and teachers, artists, authors and actors. We are councilors and cooks, lawyers and librarians.  We are graphic designers and fashion designers.

We are students, scholars and managers, members of parliament and the media. We are contributors to every aspect of life, public and private.   We are resilient. We are survivors of the Holocaust, survivors of ill health, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, friends an girlfriends.

Nurturers and life givers, who try to eat well, cook well and make that gym class. We wear many hats, do many things and strive for balance. They are an immeasurable number of remarkable women in our community and I am sure that you are one of them".