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Australia expressed “disappointment” over the US decision to leave the UN’s Human Rights Council, and although they share their concern over the Councils consistent anti-Israel bias, Australia is determined to work to make it more effective and to bring about meaningful reform to the UNHRC.

The new incitement legislation, has passed the Legislative Assembly of NSW which will replace the ineffective Section 20D of the Anti-Discrimination Act, and the NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman paid tribute to the Jewish community in particular, for their efforts to enable this.

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, following his 30 year tenure as the head of that community, a tenure which, over the past 10 years was marred by the Malka Leifer scandal of sexual abuse of female students in the local Adass-Israel school.

Anns:

Beautiful As The Moon, Radiant As The Stars: The Jewish Woman

(Part of the 2018 Glen Eira Storytelling Festival)

Sunday June 24 at 5pm, At the Kadimah, 7 Selwyn St., Elsterwick, Vic.

Tickets: $15/$10 Kadimah members & Concession: Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/VEGV

Trailblazing Jewish women of literature - from heroines, pioneers and writers to ordinary wives and mothers of their time - will be celebrated in a glorious afternoon of readings and music in English with a touch of Yiddish. Real and fictional women will be brought to life by a fabulous cast of some of Melbourne’s favourite performers and scholars including Evelyn Krape, Danielle Charak, Galit Klas, Tomi Kalinski, Freydi Mrocki and Elana Forbes. Narrated by Isaac Apel and directed by Anna Epstein, this will be a literary event for audiences of all ages, both Yiddish and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Peta Jones Pellach reports on surprise visits to Israel by an Indonesian cleric and a former Miss Iraq....Don't miss out the latest from Jerusalem.

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem celebrated its 100th cornerstone anniversary last week a 100 years for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It is Israel’s second oldest university, established in 1918, 30 years before the establishment of the state of Israel, with the world’s biggest Jewish studies library. The first board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber ad Chaim Weizmann.

Ian Groden from Sydney attended the celebrations ...

35 Jewish Australians were honored and recognized last week on the Queen’s birthday with the Order of Australia for their exceptional contribution to Australia. One of them was the Israeli migrant, Moshe Rosenzveig for his services to the visual arts, particularly to photography. Moshe’s first job in Australia was at SBS as a TV producer and he is the founder and artistic director of Head On Photo Festival, a very successful festival renowned internationally as well

A big achievement for the Australian Jewish community....35 Jews were honored with Queen’s Birthday honors this year a number that comprised an impressive 4.5% of the total of awardees and proportionately a much higher percentage than the 0.45% of Jews as a proportion of the total Australian population.

Thirty five Jewish Australians were honoured with Queen’s Birthday honours this year a number that comprised an impressive 4.5% of the total of awardees and proportionately a much higher percentage than the 0.45% of Jews as a proportion of the total Australian population.

Two of the highest awards were given to: Prof David Cooper e”h, an eminent medical researcher and clinician best known for his work on HIV/AIDS and Prof Frank Vajda for his work on epilepsy and who as a Holocaust child survivor in Hungary, thanks to the Jews rescuer Roul Wallenberg, led the Free Wallenberg campaign in Australia.

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has criticised the Australian Jewish Democratic Society for their pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests’ participation recently, an accusation denied by the society, which will get an opportunity to discuss the issue at a public JCCV plenum on June 2nd.

The Sephardic community of NSW commemorated the anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad, known as the Farhud, which took place on the 1st June 1941 and will work towards increasing the knowledge of the events in the future through publishing of a textbook, testimony recordings and an exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum.

 Anns:

Beautiful As The Moon, Radiant As The Stars: The Jewish Woman

(Part of the 2018 Glen Eira Storytelling Festival)

Sunday June 24 at 5pm, At the Kadimah, 7 Selwyn St., Elsterwick, Vic.

Tickets: $15/$10 Kadimah members & Concession: Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/VEGV

Trailblazing Jewish women of literature - from heroines, pioneers and writers to ordinary wives and mothers of their time - will be celebrated in a glorious afternoon of readings and music in English with a touch of Yiddish. Real and fictional women will be brought to life by a fabulous cast of some of Melbourne’s favourite performers and scholars including Evelyn Krape, Danielle Charak, Galit Klas, Tomi Kalinski, Freydi Mrocki and Elana Forbes. Narrated by Isaac Apel and directed by Anna Epstein, this will be a literary event for audiences of all ages, both Yiddish and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Find out the latest news from Israel, with our Jerusalem correspondent, Prof Rafi Mann, reporting in Hebrew

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Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has questioned the Palestinian Authority over whether any of the nearly $44m in aid Australia sends the PA goes to paying subsidies to families of convicted terrorists doing time in Israeli jails or those killed, and has been urged to also inquire about the funding of Palestinian school texts which carry a virulent anti-Israel and anti-peace message. Find out more and the latest news with Shane Desiatnik, senior journalist of the AJN

The Parliament of NSW will introduce stronger new laws against the incitement of violence against minority groups including the Jewish community, a move that the community lobbied for together with 30 other ethnic community groups.

Jewish community leaders welcomed a more Israel friendly and unbiased set of motions to be put on the agenda of the NSW Labor Party policy conference.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has questioned the Palestinian Authority over whether any of the nearly $44m in aid Australia sends the PA goes to paying subsidies to families of convicted terrorists doing time in Israeli jails or those killed, and has been urged to also inquire about the funding of Palestinian school texts which carry a virulent anti-Israel and anti-peace message.

Jewish women representatives from 16 countries and 5 Australian states met at the International Council of Jewish Women Quadrennial Convention in Sydney and discussed many issues including human rights, saving the earth, restrictions of Jewish Orthodoxy, and women and cultural diversity.

Anns: Dr Eve Jochnowitz – N.Y. Yiddish culinary academic, lecturer, author, blogger will speak on:

Tuesday June 12, 7.30pm at the Kadimah in a Yiddish Talk: “Milkhik, Fleyshik, Pareve un Vegan: Esn in der Yidisher Traditsye un Dimyen