Burnt out — but not by bushfires
MORE than 100 Sydney families have lost their homes as a result of the bushfire crisis. So when Joy Addison was first…
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Volunteers ready to ‘fight fire with fire’
VANLOADS of volunteers dressed as firefighters will descend on Bondi, The Rocks and other busy Sydney centres on Sunday to raise…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opinion Out of the ashes of the 2002 fires
HOW do you pack your life into the boot of a car? How do you respond to a knock on the door from a helmeted stranger in a yellow suit who instructs you to evacuate your home because it is in danger of being engulfed by a firestorm?…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →In the line of fire West Pymble came dangerously close to the frontline of the bushfires last week. Chantal Abitbol visited three families ready to evacuate
CLAIRE and Michael Fremder were on holiday in the Gold Coast last week when they learned that their West Pymble…
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ALMOST eight years to the day since they lost their Lindfield home in the 1994 bushfires, the Catzel family is wondering whether history is about to repeat itself…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Witnesses to the ritual of nature Bushfires, though devastating, prompt regeneration. Telling Tales
THE sun is luminous red against a strange, yellow-gray sky. Ash falls lightly through the air, into the eyes, into the nose, and…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Jihad: No cease-fire
ISLAMIC Jihad officials say they have abandoned a deal to halt attacks on Israel. After agreeing last month to a demand by…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Letters One week without fire
ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is insisting on one quiet week free from violence before proceeding to political negotiations with the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →International New violence erupts in Mid-East A new cycle of violence dims hopes for a cease-fire, writes Naomi Segal
JERUSALEM — An upsurge in violence is again dimming hopes that an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire can be achieved soon…
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DAVID Solomons, 70, regularly makes the 125km trip from his home in Burradoo in the NSW Southern Highlands to the Great…
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WITH megaphones blaring and Supersoakers squirting, 80 volunteers took over a series of prime spots in Sydney last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →haughty culture Flooded with festivities Like flies and fire, Sydney's summer would not be complete without the Festival
This the first year that Leo Schofield is not directing the Sydney Festival. "Schoie," as his mates at the Bronte RSL know him, decided to call it curtains…
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YOUNG people from across the Eastern Suburbs came together recently to raise more than $10,000 for the NSW Bushfire Appeal…
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THE offices of one of the largest Jewish newspapers in North America, the Detroit Jewish News, suffered extensive fire damage last week. No-one was injured in the blaze, which took three…
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ISRAEL apologised after troops fired on a car carrying senior Palestinian official Ahmed Karia. Karia had informed Israeli…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →International Dim prospects for a lasting cease-fire News Analysis
JERUSALEM — In early March, as Israeli tanks rumbled into Palestinian refugee camps and cities, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held a…
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FIREMEN from the Randwick Fire Station visited the preschoolers at Emanuel’s Kornmehl Centre. Pupils listened to fire safety procedures and were instructed to tell their parents to install smoke detectors at home…
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POLICE are probing whether a fire at a Jewish school in a Paris suburb was the latest in a string of antisemitic attacks in France…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sharon fires four Shas ministers News Analysis
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is playing coalition hardball. A day after firing four Cabinet ministers from the fervently Orthodox…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →From Christianity to Judaism Playing With Fire Tova Mordechai Urim Books (second edition), 447 pp, $33.50
PLAYING With Fire is the true story of the author’s journey from Pentecostal Christianity to Chabad Judaism…
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