Hilary Rubinstein, Author at J-Wire

A famous sea disaster’s Jewish aspects

Hilary Rubinstein — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 03:32:28 +0000

Bound for the relief of the British base at Gibraltar, which was under siege by France and Spain, HMS Royal George of 108 guns was awaiting sailing orders on a fine summer's morning in 1782, part of a large fleet assembled at the Spithead anchorage off Portsmouth.

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Kristallnacht: “White Australia Stood Silent” (Not)

Hilary Rubinstein — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 02:02:58 +0000

On 7 December 2018, The Guardian's Australian edition published an article headed 'Aboriginals stood with Jews against the Nazis – we have a long history together'.

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Let’s stop this distortion of Australian Jewish history

Hilary Rubinstein — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:28:34 +0000

In his Kol Nidrei 5778 sermon, a Melbourne rabbi claimed that Yorta Yorta elder William Cooper's was "the only known private protest anywhere in the world against the Nazi regime following Kristallnacht".

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