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“Nishto Kayn Mazl” (“There’s No Luck”) by Sholem Aleichem, read by Michael Ben Avraham-Vaynapple

greeting/opener by Alex Dafner 

Alon Amir, is known as Mister Eurovision.  Alon is a top expert when it comes to the Eurovision and he published a book about it. The book “3 minutes of eternity” is your opportunity to get all the behind-the-scenes gossip at Eurovision.

so Get ready for Eurovision 2019 in Israel with Alon…To date there have been four Israeli victories in the Eurovision song contest, the latest, yes it took another 20 years to win, with the song Toy with Netta Barzilai.We all look forward to next year’s Eurovision in Israel.

Prince William at the Kotel...Find out more about the Royal historic visit, with Peta Jones Pellach reporting this week from the North of Israel...

For the latest in the Australian Jewish community and the Jewish World, listen to Shane Desiatnik, Journalist of the Australian Jewish News...Find out about Prince William's visit to Yad Vashem  and the Kotel in Jerusalem

Australian Jewish leaders commended the decision to change the name of the Melbourne Federal Electoral seat of Batman to Cooper, in honour of the Aboriginal leader and human rights campaigner William Cooper, who in a unique act of solidarity with the Jewish people tried to deliver a protest letter to the German Embassy, condemning the Krsystalnacht anti-Jewish Nazi pogrom of the 9th November 1938 in Germany and Austria.

Australian Jewish leaders commended the decision to change the name of the Melbourne Federal Electoral seat of Batman to Cooper, in honour of the Aboriginal leader and human rights campaigner William Cooper, who in a unique act of solidarity with the Jewish people tried to deliver a protest letter to the German Embassy, condemning the Krsystalnacht anti-Jewish Nazi pogrom of the 9th November 1938 in Germany and Austria.  Australian Zionist leaders met the former leader of the Opposition in Israel and newly elected Chairman of the “Sochnut”- World Jewish Agency, Itzhak Herzog, in Jerusalem and greeted him again when he arrived for a visit to Australia, and where he will deliver a speech on the 4th July, 7.30PM at the Veit Weizmann Centre, in Melbourne. The President of the Jewish Community Council of South Australia, Norman Schueler has been appointed Chair of the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission for the next two years and he was warmly congratulated by the SA Premier Steven Marshall and his Government.

Find out the latest from Jerusalem with SBS Correspondent, Peta Jones Pellach, reporting from Jerusalem...

Our special guest is the artist Anne Zahalka. A few years ago, after her mother’s death, she discovered a pile of letter she’s never seen before. The letters were from Anne’s grandmother, starting in Vienna in 1938, after Margarete’s daughters escaped to England and she remained trapped in war torn Europe, writing to her daughters, trying desperately to reunite with them. The granddaughter pieced together the letters to find out the faith of her grandmother, who was murdered in Auschwitz. SBS online together with Anne, published the letters under the title: Nobody loves you more than me…Finding Margarete, an untold story from the Holocaust. AI spoke to Anne Zahalka about the project and I invite you to go to SBS on-line to read the incredible story and see the photos.

Meet the Israeli Australian Artist Limor Dekel, who talks about her latest exhibition...

The former chief Rabbi of the Adass-Israel Ultra-Orthodox community in Melbourne, Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Beck z”l, has died in Israel at the age of 85, only two weeks after flying there...Find out the latest news in the Jewish community with Shane Desiatnik, senior journalist at the AJN