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Kerryn Phelps, the likely winner of the by-election in Wentworth, Sydney, will if confirmed, become the first Jewish woman to ever serve in the Australian Parliament.

Jewish victims and survivors of child sexual abuse were amongst the hundreds of like Australians who attended the national apology by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and leader of the opposition Bill Shorten, in the Australian Parliament last Monday.

A Dutch tribunal will decide next week whether to release the names of Holocaust-era war criminals, whose identity is currently shielded by privacy laws, a move which researchers and Nazi hunters say may be the last chance to identify and punish war criminals who may still be alive. 

The Argentinian Jewish umbrella body the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations or DAIA, revealed excerpt from tens of thousands of documents about WWII that shed light on the Nazi influence on the country and the Nazi war criminals who were helped to escape and hide in Argentina after the war.

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Alex Dafner Yiddish report 21.10.2018

The Jewish community of Wentworth, Sydney, was placed at the centre of the domestic and international controversy ahead of the by-election in the seat, following the PMs Scott Morrison’s sudden announcement that his Government may consider the possibility of moving the Australian embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem...find out more with Shane Desiatnik...

Eddie Tamir, Director of International Jewish Film Festival 2018 is talking about the Festival's program...Don't miss out.

Sculpture by the Sea, returned last week to Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach coastal walk. It is the world’s largest free to public sculpture exhibition, featuring 100 sculptures and artists from Australia and around the world. One of the artists exhibiting this year is the Israeli artist Itamar Freed, who is our guest. Will talk to him in English

Sculpture by the Sea, returned last week to Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach coastal walk. It is the world’s largest free to public sculpture exhibition, featuring 100 sculptures and artists from Australia and around the world.One of the artists exhibiting this year is the Israeli artist Itamar Freed, who is our guest

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The latest news with Shane Desiatnik senior journalist AJN: The Jewish community of Wentworth, Sydney, received a Federal Govt grant of $2.2m for security and infrastructure upgrades, ahead of the byelection in the seat, which the Liberal candidate and former Australian ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma said would be granted regardless of who wins the byelection.The Melbourne Habonim Dror Zionist organization in Melbourne, the Yeshiva-Beth Rivka Colleges and Beth Weitzman Centre and Lamm Library received pre-election grants from the State Govt to improve their premises and services to the Jewish community.