The ABC’s coverage of Israel - in particular, its highly controversial Q + A program which focused on the recent Israel-Hamas war - was the subject of a high-level meeting between the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) and the ABC leadership at ABC headquarters in Sydney on Monday.
I returned to South Africa a week before the 1994 elections — the first time in that country’s troubled history every adult would have the right to vote. Irrespective of race....writes Vic Alhadeff.
The Sydney Jewish community will get an insight into the work of Jewish Aid Australia next week when CEO Gary Samowitz addresses the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies plenum.
Israeli hospitals have treated 500 Syrians wounded in the civil war. Vic Alhadeff visited one of those hospitals last week and spoke with a Syrian patient.
Some months ago, Channel Nine's A Current Affair featured a segment on the bid to erect an eruv in St Ives and the public debate which ensued.
As is standard practice for most media outlets, the program was uploaded onto A Current Affair's website, inviting viewers to voice opinions. Many did. And one of those gems mischievously misquoted the former US President John Kennedy declaring that Hitler would go down as one of the greatest men in history and should be exhumed.
