World Briefs Un Council Blasts Israel
NEW YORK — The United Nations' new Human Rights Council voted by a large majority to reproach Israel for its actions in Lebanon. The resolution Friday, which…
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Council & local affairs, 2006
31 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2
15-0 for UN Security Council Resolution 1701
NEW YORK —5 members of the United Nations Security Council are pictured unanimously adopting Resolution 1701 calling for a "full cessation…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newhouse to Become Mayor of Waverley?
SYDNEY lawyer George Newhouse is tipped to become the next mayor of Waverley Council when elections are held tonight (Thursday). Newhouse, who is currently…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newhouse elected mayor of Waverley
IT’s been more than 20 years since Waverley Council last had a Jewish mayor, but George Newhouse broke the drought last Thursday when he…
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LONDON - A London judge has thrown out the four-week suspension imposed by a civil-service tribunal on Mayor Ken Livingstone for abusive…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Holocaust Council Member
SIGMUND Strochlitz, an Auschwitz survivor and champion of Holocaust remembrance, died at age 89 after a long illness. A friend of Elie Wiesel, Strochlitz was a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Unfair Mayor
IT is more than a little unfair for Waverley Mayor George Newhouse to publicly berate the Jewish schools for not participating in the council’s…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Jewish mayor's Bondi Christmas gift
CHRISTIAN revellers at Bondi Beach can thank the local Jewish mayor for the festive fanfare this Christmas after a motion to erect a giant Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mayor Livingstone surprises to UK Jews with an apology
Jewish property developers, David and Simon Reuben, should “go back to Iran and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs”, claiming later he…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Deleveski Joins Brother in Council Hall of Fame
MARK Delevski was inducted into the Randwick Council Hall of Sporting Champions earler this month after returning from the Shotokan Karate…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Mayor gets a mezuzah
THE office of Waverley Council's new mayor, George Newhouse (back), was adorned with a mezuzah last week. Rabbi Dovid Slavin, from the Yeshivah Centre, officiated at the ceremony, believed to be the first time in history that the mayor’s office has had a mezuzah. Newhouse, a co-founder of the Jewish Labor…
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