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Farming & the land, 1999

7 stories in Sydney's papers

pig farmer

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 January 1999 · page 25

SBS, award-winning British comedy Leon the Pig Farmer. A nice Jewish boy discovers that he is the product of artificial insemination…

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Down on the (health) farm Whether your goal is to eat better, give up smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or just enjoy some pampering, you'll be well catered for at a health farm, as Karen Booth discovers

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 January 1999 · page 6

BACK in the days when health farms were often thought of as nothing more than “fat farms”, luxury was pretty much a foreign concept. As far as most people were…

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Ostrich farming

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 February 1999 · page 24

Q. Here in outback Australia, the ostrich industry is thriving. Why is it that ostriches are not considered kosher? A. The ostrich, the largest member of the bird kingdom,…

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feature Hero of Sobibor They may have looked like sheep, but many of the sheep were lions who plucked the eyes of their tormentors. With Holocaust Awareness Week next week, Sam Bennett tells the story of Yehezkiel Mankhe, a mild-mannered hero of the Sobibor Uprising, who immigrated to Australia after the war

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 April 1999 · page 17

HE wasn’t a sophisticated man. His education was minimal, and his speech employed only a simple vocabulary. But when he stood in German courts as a witness…

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Farmyard fun at Montefiore

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 July 1999 · page 26

RABBITS, lambs, Angora goats, piglets, ducklings and sheepdogs were the centre of attention at Montefiore Home when animals from the Misty Ridge Farm in Kurrajong…

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Animal Farm

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 September 1999 · page 24

PUPILS at the Menorah Day Care Centre were recently…

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Down on the farm community out & about JN

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 October 1999 · page 25

PUPILS at the Moriah-Mount Zion preschool spent a morning “down on the farm”. The show was written, directed and performed by Elli Gilbertson and Julie Zommers of Tell-Tale Entertainment…

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