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90-yr-old Holocaust survivor honoured

 

90-year-old Auschwitz survivor Clare Galambos-Winter has received a Hunter Fellowship award from Victoria University of Wellington…a recognition of her support for the NZ School of Music. [Read more]

Hadassah New Zealand fund-raising to help Palestinian children

Hadassah New Zealand is planning to raise funds for the Rozana Project by participating in the March 2014 Jerusalem marathon and generating donations from sponsors in New Zealand and Israel. [Read more]

Israel contributes to Samoan relief

Shemi Tzur, the Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand has donated NZ$ 12,200.00 on behalf of the State of Israel to the President of the Samoa Victim Support Group. [Read more]

A travelling Holocaust exhibition created by non-Jews

A devoted Christian couple in Auckland has created a project called Shadows of Shoah (SOS)  initiated by them in Israel in 2008 when they photographed and interviewed Holocaust survivors. [Read more]

Cemetery desecrator sentenced

Punishment for the man who desecrated 15 Jewish graves in Auckland’s oldest cemetery, with swastikas and crude anti-Israeli graffiti, is to be 320 hours community service, nine months supervision and $3000 reparation. [Read more]

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