What happened when you couldn't keep them down on the farm
From the 1920s, welfare ministered to those who could not stay on the stations, provided that they came down to the coast, to ration camps in Roeboume and…
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10 stories in Sydney's papers
NATURAL wool
Wool is a paradox: one of the most conservative and traditional fabrics, it is also one of the most imaginative and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →arts/leisure This little piggie.. Will Leon the Pig Farmer, a new British screen comedy about a nice Jewish boy who takes up swine-raising, bring home the bacon from the boxoffice?
IT STARTED a couple of years ago as the bare bones of a film school project — a serious drama about someone conceived by artificial insemination whose world is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of paschal lambs and Passover sheep on the Other Hand
I DON’T have a vast family, and we don’t have all that many guests, but my Pesach groceries (including wines) came to about $500, which, in itself, is…
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THE FIRST class of the Jerusalem Film and Television School graduated in a blaze of publicity. Now its graduates hope that doesn’t turn…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral idyll MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
BENEFICENT is a word which conjures up Heinz Waliberg’s reading of the Pastoral Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven; he really made one feel he was out on a trail, imbibing nature’s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When New Farm was known as Jew Farm
BLANCHE NORMAN and Marjory Pitt were bom in New Farm almost 80 years ago when New Farm was known to many as Jew Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →sport Banter with Canter — the tennis-playing music man The current crop of professional tennis players on the ATP Tour are not really renowned for their happy-go-lucky nature or their appreciation of the simple things in life. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, as Darren Isenberg discovered when he had a banter with (Jonathan) Canter
JONATHAN CANTER, prior to arriving in Sydney for the Australian Indoor Tennis Championships two weeks ago, was the number 284 player in the world with one title to his name and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →arts/leisure Kosher capers on a pig farm Will Leon the Pig Farmer—a new British comedy film about a nice Jewish boy who takes up swine-raising—bring home the bacon? The film will feature at this month's Jewish Film Festival
IT STARTED a couple of years ago as the bare bones of a film-school project — a serious drama about someone conceived by artificial insemination whose world is turned upside…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →views/opinion Butter and Judaism in Moldova
Melbourne journalist Geoff Winesfock describes a recent visit to the former Soviet republic of Moldova last…
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