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August 15, 2016 by Eli Levi
Some of Australia’s most talented female writers have teamed up to share their experiences of defying and challenging societal expectations in a new book, Rebellious Daughters.
The ever-popular biennial Yom Limmud Sydney will take place on Sunday, July 3, offering a program led by leading international and local presenters. [Read more]
March 4, 2016 by Sharon Berger
Master Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret had the capacity crowd at Bondi Pavilion on the edge of their seats at his only Sydney event as a guest of the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival. [Read more]
July 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Over 400 people attended The Shalom Institute’s sixth Graf Oration held in Sydney this week, [Read more]
July 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Ground breaking Israeli television director and writer of Prisoners of War and Homeland, Gideon Raff, New York Times foreign affairs editor Roger Cohen and German-Nigerian author Jennifer Teege, whose grandfather was a brutal Nazi commandant, are three of the headline speakers at the upcoming Sydney Jewish Writers Festival (SJWF) this August 29-30. [Read more]
Dec-15 4:55pm SBS World Movies: The Scarlet and the Black
Based on the humanitarian works of Irish-born Vatican priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved thousands of escaped prisoners of war, Jews and Italian Resistance families in occupied Rome during World War II, by hiding them in the church.
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