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The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud – reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
August 25, 2022 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
Maggie Anton has introduced us to a number of stories around Jewish life, beginning with her series on Rashi’s Daughters [3 novels] followed by Rav Hisda’s Daughter [2 novels] and one about personal relationships {Fifty Shades of Talmud]. [Read more]
Portrait of an Unknown Woman: book review by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
August 4, 2022 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
This is Daniel Silva’s twenty-fifth novel and the 22nd, with Gabriel Allon as the chief protagonist. [Read more]
Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland: A book review by Joanne McFall
Comprising of forty-four traditional folk tales associated with varying regions in Britain and Ireland, Liz Berg’s Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland is essential reading for fans of this genre. [Read more]
The Nazis Knew My Name: a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
January 5, 2022 by J-Wire
This book is about Magda Hellinger. It is an amalgam of materials both from writings and stories shared by Magda as well as those she recounted through the oral histories programs of both Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre and the Visual History Foundation [often described as the Spielberg project]. [Read more]
The Covered Wife: a book review by Jeffrey Cohen
December 13, 2021 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen
Over the past year or so there seems to have been a fascination in one way or another with Orthodox Judaism. [Read more]
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May-16 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 the World War Two, by hiding them in the church. 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