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July 26, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has analysed the resolution passed at the ALP conference in Melbourne dealing with the Israel-Palestine conflict. [Read more]
July 9, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has slammed Labor MP Melissa Parke for signing an anti-Israel petition. [Read more]
June 29, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
There has been strong reaction both within the Jewish community and without to a tirade of antisemitic tweets against federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. [Read more]
May 13, 2015 by J-Wire
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and B’nai B’rith’s Alfred Dreyfus Anti-Defamation Unit successfully launched their “In Conversation” series in Sydney last week. [Read more]
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has asked the Save the Children Fund to introduce balance to their current campaign seeking support for Gaza’s young. [Read more]
May-19 11:55am SBS-World Movies: The Man in the Basement
Jewish family man Simon and his wife Helen decide to sell a basement in their Paris building. Read more
May-21 4:10pm SBS-World Movies: The Crossing
December, 1942. Following their parent’s arrest for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the war, young siblings Gerda and Otto are left on their own. Read more
May-22 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
May-23 00:05am SBS-World Movies: Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ is an epic gangster film spanning decades. Read more
May-24 11:30am SBS-Viceland: Israel: Cyberpower
Israel is one of the world’s cyber superpowers. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
