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A unique SBS report in Yiddish, covering the latest in the Jewish community around Australia with Alex Dafner...The first legally recognized Jewish gay wedding in Australia, of the well-known lesbian couple Jackie Stricker-Phelps and Dr Kerryn Phelps, took place at the Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney, officiated by the Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, last week Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Tim Fisher has urged the public and politicians to make special efforts to try to realize his long running campaign of posthumously rising the rank of the great Jewish Australian General Sir John Monash eh, to that of Field Marshall. The director of the Australian War Memorial Dr Brendan Nelson, will be the key speaker at the Melbourne International Holocaust Day commemoration, at the Glen Eira Town Hall, in Caulfield on Sunday the 28th January 2018.

Find out about the latest scandal, the talk of the country, a sensational recorded conversation involving the PM's son, Yair Netanyahu and other news from Jerusalem with SBS Correspondent Peta Jones Pellach

Yair Netanyahu will not be joining his dad today for his trip to India...Find out why from SBS Jerusalem correspondent Prof Rafi Mann

A unique SBS report in Yiddish, covering the latest in the Jewish community around Australia with Alex Dafner...The first legally recognized Jewish gay wedding in Australia, of the well-known lesbian couple Jackie Stricker-Phelps and Dr Kerryn Phelps, took place at the Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney, officiated by the Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, last week Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Tim Fisher has urged the public and politicians to make special efforts to try to realize his long running campaign of posthumously rising the rank of the great Jewish Australian General Sir John Monash eh, to that of Field Marshall. The director of the Australian War Memorial Dr Brendan Nelson, will be the key speaker at the Melbourne International Holocaust Day commemoration, at the Glen Eira Town Hall, in Caulfield on Sunday the 28th January 2018.

For the latest news from the Australian Jewish community, listen to Josh Levi, chatting to Nitza Lowenstein

Dr Yona Gilead, from Sydney University reveals to SBS the secrets of teaching Hebrew (interview in Hebrew)

For the latest news from the Australian Jewish community, listen to Josh Levi, chatting to Nitza Lowenstein

Find out the latest from Jerusalem with SBS correspondent Peta Jones Pellach. Did you know about the death of one of Israel's greatest authors?

Books from Home??? That's it! Forget about your iPad and Kindle ...You can get now in Australia books in Hebrew, sent to your door steps with a few clicks on your computer and very little damage to your bank account! Find out about "Books from Home", from Avishag who started this business...

Don't miss our weekly Yiddish report with Alex Dafner: Racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posters were pasted over the Bathurst campus of the Charles Sturt University of NSW over the Christmas-New Year break, by the neo-Nazi Antipodean Resistance group and were removed and condemned by the Universitys administration. - Charles Zentai, the Hungarian immigrant and later citizen of Australia, who was accused of murdering a young Hungarian Jew for not wearing his yellow star of David in Budapest in 1944, and who managed to win his appeal against being extradited to Hungary in 2012, died aged 96, in Perth in December 2017. - The Melbourne South Caulfield Primary School defended its publicizing of an anonymous letter from a parent, which accused Jewish parents at the school of limiting Christmas celebrations there, an accusation vehemently denied by the school principal.