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From Australia’s Jewish past

Ruth Lilian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:41:49 +0000

Sydney David Einfeld AO – Politician and Community Leader Syd – as he was known – was born on 17 June 1909 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, just three weeks after his parents arrived in Australia – hence his name Sydney. He was the son of Deborah and Rabbi Marcus Einfeld, whose family had come from Yaroslaw in Galicia, […]

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The forgotten exodus: Sydney honours 850,000 Jews who fled Arab lands and Iran

Rob Klein — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:55:19 +0000

More than 200 people gathered at the National Council of Jewish Women hall in Woollahra on Sunday evening for the annual commemoration honouring Jewish refugees from Arab lands and Iran. The commemoration highlighted the long-overlooked story of the 850,000 Jews forced from Arab countries and Iran in the mid-twentieth century. Their departure reshaped the Jewish […]

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From Australia’s Jewish past

Ruth Lilian — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:35:29 +0000

Georges Mora – entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur, and restaurateur Georges was born Günther Morawski on June 26, 1913, in Leipzig, Germany, to a Jewish bourgeois family of Polish descent. At the age of seventeen, as a medical student, Günther fled Germany due to Nazi persecution and went to Paris, where he found work as […]

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Dunera Boy Georg Hans Fröhlich’s grave dedicated

Adele Rosalky — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:22:53 +0000

Dunera boy Georg Hans Fröhlich died in 1942 and was the first Jewish person to be buried in Canberra. 2025 marks the 85th anniversary of the arrival in Sydney of the troopship HMT Dunera, which carried over 2,000 Jewish refugees deported from Great Britain as enemy aliens. Georg Hans Fröhlich was one of the internees. […]

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Asylum seekers from Gaza shouldn’t be let in: Dutton

AAP — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:48:52 +0000

Palestinians fleeing the war in Gaza shouldn’t be allowed to come to Australia because it puts our national security at risk, Peter Dutton says. The coalition has called on the Albanese government to strengthen security checks when granting visas to Palestinians to prevent Hamas supporters from entering the country. ASIO director-general Mike Burgess said on […]

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Netanyahu calls for the closure of UNRWA

Agencies — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:09:08 +0000

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA must be shut down. “It’s time for the international community and the UN itself to understand that UNRWA’s mission must be terminated,” Netanyahu told visiting UN delegates, according to a statement from his office. “It seeks to preserve the issue of Palestinian […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Gaza – A gigantic shift in the Overton window

Martin Sherman — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:20:51 +0000

What once was unthinkable is now moving to the centre of mainstream thought. Consideration should be given even to the heroic remedy of transfer of populations…the hardship of moving is great, but it is [still] less than the constant suffering of minorities and the constant recurrence of war.” Former US President Herbert Hoover–“Great Humanitarian”, in […]

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One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

Mike Wagenheim - JNS — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 06:19:12 +0000

The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always adequately capture how much of a geographical impact wars have. Diana Bukman, who is now half a world away from a colleague in Ukraine and reconnected in Israel with her ex-husband, knows that all too well. Moving to Israel was what made her first marriage fall apart. Her then-husband […]

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15,000 Ukrainian Jews have immigrated to Israel since war began

Pesach Benson — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:34:42 +0000

Ahead of the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israeli officials reported that in the last year, 15,000 Ukrainian Jews have immigrated to Israel. The numbers were based on figures provided by the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption and by the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental agency that facilitates Jewish immigration. According to their figures, […]

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An evening of Truth & Lies

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:25:09 +0000

Sydney’s JewishCare has hosted an evening of divulging international truth and lies about refugees, at which former Federal judge Marcus Einfeld shared many controversial situations. Marcus Einfeld was appointed to the Federal Court in 1986. He was also a Justice of the Australian Capital Territory. He retired as a judge in April 2001. Einfeld was […]

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