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Can you imagine, Harry Potter speaking English with an Israeli accent?  We spoke to Yossi Ghinsberg about the latest Hollywood/Australian movie, Jungle with Harry Potter Star, Daniel Radcliffe. Jungle is the incredible real life survival story of Australian based Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Ghinsberg, starring Daniel Radcliffe by Wolf Creek director Greg Yossi is most known for his survival story when he was stranded in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981.It will be screened in JIFF, Jewish International film Festival. Ghinsberg wrote his first book, titled Back from Tuichi in 1993. The book became popular in Israel and sold millions of copies, and it has been translated into 15 languages and published in several countries under different names, including Heart of the Amazon

Who are the Four philanthropic Jewish families in Sydney that have pledged $10m for the Sydney Jewish and Holocaust Museums? Find out the latest about the Australian Jewish community, with AJN senior journalist, Evan Zlatkis, talking to Nitza Lowenstein.

An Australian immigrant couple, Cornelis & Aaltje van Meurs, originally from Holland, were posthumously honoured with the Yad Vashems Righteous Amongst the Nations award for having rescued a Jewish child in 1942 and other heroic deeds in Holland during the Holocaust, at a ceremony at the Victorian Parliament, in the presence of their sons, friends, parliamentarians and community representatives. Alpha Cheng, the son of the murdered victim of the Sydney terrorist attack Curtis Cheng, spoke at the opening of the Courage to Care travelling Holocaust exhibition, at its opening at the Victorian Parliament and described the valuable lessons he learnt at the Holocaust Studies program, as a history teacher, in Jerusalems Yad Vashem, which he completed thanks to the Gandel Holocaust Scholarship for Australian Educators. Four philanthropic Jewish families in Sydney have pledged $10m for the Sydney Jewish and Holocaust Museums over the next decade, to help ensure the museums independence and future. The In Pursuit of Beersheba commemorative ride, with some 100 horse riders dressed in the uniforms of the heroic ANZAC light horsemen, who defeated the Ottoman forces at Beersheba, staged a re-enactment of the charge of the 31st October 1917, in remote Central Western QLD in front of hundreds of locals and ahead of the 100th commemorative ceremony, which will take place at Beersheba in Israel at the end of this month, in the presence of Australian and Israeli leaders and representatives.

What do you know about the Jewish star Barbara Streisand?
We spoke to Ben Gerrard, the solo actor of a new play at the Ensemble Theatre, Buyer and Cellar about his role in the play, as a salesperson, at Barbara Streisands private shopping mall, in the basement of her mansion...
The play is based on the fact that Streisand has a museum in her basement The play is particularly relevant to you as there are many Jewish references in the play with lots of rich Yiddish expressions.

Find out from the Greek film maker Manousos Manousakis about his movie in the Greek/Australian film Festival, Cloudy Sunday, the untold story of the Thessalonikis Jewish community, the tragedy of the community. 46,091 Jews from Thessaloniki were deported to concentration camps, mainly Auschwitz and only 1,950 survived. The movie, based on a book depicts the historic events through an impossible love story

Don't miss your very special weekly Jerusalem Report, with SBS Correspondent Peta Jones Pellach... Find out the latest from Israel

Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, is a legendary figure who was forced to leave the Israeli Defense Forces after the 2nd Lebanon War. Find out from him his own version of events (Hebrew interview)

Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, is a legendary figure who was forced to leave the Israeli Defense Forces after the 2nd Lebanon War. Find out from him his own version of events (Hebrew interview)

For the latest news from Jerusalem, with SBS correspondent Prof Rafi Mann reporting from Israel in Hebrew...

For the latest news from Jerusalem, with SBS correspondent Prof Rafi Mann reporting from Israel in Hebrew...