Nirvana Street Murder (Australia 1990; Dist: New Vision Films; rt: 72mins.)
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Tennessee Williams…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Courts & crime, 1991
49 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3
Aleksi Vellis, writer and director of Nirvana Street Murder. Nirvana Street
A normal narrative will tell you straight away, this is a comedy or this is a drama. AV: Absolutely. John Ruane does that very well in Death in Brunswick where Sam…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Jewis World News Survey High Court rules on deportees
Jerusalem: ISRAEL’S High Court of Justice dealt a setback to four Palestinian activists appealing deportation orders. The justices denied a request by their lawyers, Leah Tsemel and Linda Bryer, for access to the classified information that supported the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Senior police officers meet with Deputies on antisemitic attacks
THE NSW Jewish Board of Deputies met six senior metropolitan police officers last week to discuss the recent spate of antisemitic attacks and to establish procedures to improve liaison between…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Korean Students Clash with police
Kang Kyong Dae was another south Korean 20-year-old, majoring in economics in a relatively…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Abie Nathan goes to court
Tel Aviv: PEACE activist Abie Nathan, his hunger strike for peace uninterrupted, appeared in Ramla Magistrates Court to be formally…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Israeli police question witness on murder
ISRAELI police are questioning an Arab man in connection with the murder of a Sydney woman in East Jerusalem last week…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Man charged for abusive phone calls
PERTH police have charged a man following a series of antisemitic and abusive telephone calls to Council of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →US firm may be charged for boycott of Israel
New York: AN INVESTIGATION into allegations that Baxter International Inc — a major hospital supplies company — violated anti-boycott legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News Survey Israel's police test home prisons
Tel Aviv: ISRAEL’S Police Ministry confirmed that it is testing a high-tech electronic device that will allow certain prisoners to serve their time at home instead of behind bars, thereby relieving overcrowded prison conditions, reducing the damaging effects of…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Police arrest settlers for murder
Jerusalem: THE POLICE arrested two Jewish settlers in the West Bank on suspicion of murdering two Arabs for political motives. The prime suspect, not immediately identified, was said to be a 22-year-old man who formerly lived in Beersheba, and is…
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MAHLA Pearlman — the first woman president of the NSW Law Society — has become the first woman to be appointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Israelis receive life for murder
Tel Aviv: A TEL AVIV District Court made legal history last week when it sentenced two Israelis to life imprisonment for a double homicide committed in the United States. The trial was made possible by an amendment to the extradition…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →US Supreme Court nominee scrutinised
Washington: JEWISH organisations are preparing to take a close look at the record of Clarence Thomas, the 43-year-old black conservative President Bush has nominated to the US Supreme Court. Bush named Thomas to succeed Justice Thurgood Marshall, the only…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →News Survey Israeli court rules Cohen Jewish
AN ISRAELI court has ruled that English mother Paula Cohen and her three children are to be considered Jewish anywhere in the world. The decision by the Jerusalem District Court is a major rebuff for the London Beth Din, whcih has refused to recognise Mrs Cohen’s…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Arab faces attempted murder charge
Tel Aviv: A 37-YEAR-OLD Israeli Arab with a family history of mental illness was formally charged with attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organisation last Wednesday by the Petach Tikva Magistrates Court…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Report criticises police of Temple Mount riot
Jerusalem: AN INVESTIGATIVE judge announced last week that there was insufficient evidence available to incriminate…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →High Court upholds war crimes law
A HIGH COURT decision this week will allow the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals in Australia to continue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police liaison
NSW JEWISH Board of Deputies public affairs director Robert Klarnet has been appointed “Jewish community liaison…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In the Demjanjuk trial: Court to hear evidence
Jerusalem: ISRAEL’S High Court has rejected an application by John Demjanjuk’s lawyer to release his client in light of what…
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