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Alex Dafner reports on: Australian Jewish Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg was appointed Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia by PM Malcolm Turnbull and was sworn-in a Jewish ceremony

I spoke to Dr Moti Zaken from the Hebrew University to find out what is happening to the minorities in the Middle East? To the Kurds? I wanted to learn something about the Kurdish Jews as well. Interview in Hebrew with Nitza Lowenstein

In todays Yiddish segment Alex Dafner reports on:-Australian Jewish leaders have criticized the Vaticans intention to recognise Palestine as a State, following a recent meeting with Pope Francis and PA President Mahmud Abbas 2. Newly elected leader of the Greens Party in Australia Richard De Natale has confirmed his partys support for Israel as a Jewish State and a two State solution for the M-E peace process 3. Malcolm Turnbull reassures the community that the Govt will not change Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, despite recent statements that he does not oppose such changes 4. Sen Cory Bernardi announces a Senate inquiry into kosher, halal, organic and other non-regular food certification and is assured cooperation by the Exec Council of Australian Jewry  

Find out from Evan Zlatkis the incredible unkonwn story of Kristallnacht and the connection to Australian Aborigines.... On the 8th November in the Australian Embassy in Berlin, exactly 79 years after the anti-Jewish Nazi led pogrom in Germany and Austria, known as Kristalnacht, Alfred Turner the grandson of Aboriginal leader William Cooper, handed a representative of the German Government a copy of the protest letter against the pogrom, from the Australian Aboriginal League that his eminent grandfather tried to deliver to the German Embassy in Melbourne in 1938.