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The Sydney community has been invited to this week’s Friday night service where U.S. Consul General Sharon Hudson-Dean and incoming Wentworth independent Dr Kerryn Phelps will address the congregation.
Jan-26 Zoom: Indigenous justice is the responsibility of all of us.
Jan-31 2pm Zoom: New Jerusalem, Down Under: The search for a Jewish homeland in Australia
Adam Rovner will detail the cultural context and legacy of proposals to create mass settlements of Jewish refugees in Australia before, during, and after the Nazi era. Read more
Feb-02 7:45pm SBS World Movies: Fanny’s Journey
Fanny, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and a group of eight children attempt to escape Nazi-occupied France.
Feb-02 Zoom: NIF to host event with foreign policy luminaries on the Middle East
Less than two weeks after President Joe Biden takes office NIF Australia is hosting seasoned American Middle East negotiator, and NIF board member, Aaron David Miller and former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova to discuss America’s Middle East policy shift under the new administration. Read more
Feb-05 9:45pm SBS-TV: My grandparents’ war
Both sets of Helena Bonham Carter’s grandparents, one in France, one in England, weren’t conventional war heroes. Read more
Feb-10 3:25pm SBS-TV: Who Do You Think You Are?
Robert ‘Judge’ Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, hearing first-hand testimony of the horror of Nazi forced labour camps, as well as of the hope offered by a new life in Lake Windermere. Read more
Feb-13 10:55pm SBS-TV: Movie – The Pianist
Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as WWII begins. Read more
