Train carnage in the Negev
REVADIM, Israel - Israeli army and civilian rescuers scrambled to find survivors in a deadly train-truck collision near Kibbutz Revadim in the Negev that left…
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Railways, roads & transport, 2005
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Montefiore Ladies’ Committee bridge day A bridge day was organised by the Montefiore Ladies’ Committee with special guest bridge columnist Ron Klinger
From left: Bob Green, Ron Klinger, Shirley Cohen, Jillian Green. From left: Adele and Victor Bear, Valda Glass, Loretta Don…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Maccabiah bridge and other disasters The Maccabiah bridge tragedy may be an unintended consequence of an Israeli military ideal - the ability to improvise. Israeli Down Under
ON the evening of July 14, 1997, I was sitting in my car, stuck in traffic, listening to the radio. I remember the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Maccabiah Games 2005 - the Road to Israel Taekwondo twins set for medal haul
AS brothers, Alan and Thomas Biller have always been competitive, especially when it comes to taekwondo. But as twins, with almost exactly…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Volunteers assist at Centre on Ageing Each week a team of volunteers at the Centre on Ageing assist with activities including delivery of kosher Meals on Wheels, transportation to centre events, and a weekly bridge game
From left: Frank Tails, Thomas Saxon, Agi Weiner, Lily Buchbinder. From left: Joyce Altman, Morrie Zamel, Rhona Stoloff, Adam Lubowski. From left: Lew Levi, Tabley Abeshouse, Simon Judah…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Israeli art provides a bridge in Germany
THE largest exhibition of Israeli art to be held in the Diaspora is currently on display at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau museum as part of the 40th-anniversary celebrations of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Bridge victim’s wife ‘nervous’ about return to Yarkon
TEL AVIV Suzanne Small is scared and nervous about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Outlook Letting the games begin After a skeleton contingent in 2001, Australians are back in force at this month’s Maccabiah Games in Israel, with the country’s biggest-ever team and the hope that the anguish over the bridge collapse of 1997 can finally be laid to rest. Peter Kohn and Brandon Cohen report
THE games of the 17th Maccabiah are about to open at Ramat Gan, and Australian athletes, their families, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Outlook Bridging memories, easing pain, finding closure The Australian Maccabiah Games delegation participated in a stirring memorial last week to the four victims of the 1997 bridge disaster. Samantha Baden reports from Tel Aviv
AUSTRALIA'S biggest Maccabiah Games delegation in history came to Israel to compete in a massive…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Israel Road Safeiy?
TEL AVIV - Israel has adopted a 10-year road safety plan. Under the program approved this week by a cabinet vote of 18-2, Israel hopes to become one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Karate peacemaker A former Sydneysider is using his love of karate to bridge the emnity between Jews and Palestinians, Samantha Baden reports
TEL AVIV - Amid flaring violence, 100 young Israelis and Palestinians, united by their love of karate, came together this week to take part in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How I beat my demons Frank Gaensler was clinically dead for several days after the 1997 bridge disaster but was revived, and awoke to be told the news that his partner, Yetty Bennett, had drowned. Last week, he returned to the scene of the disaster to confront his demons
LAST week was the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games. I was assured that we would not be walking across…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →End of the road for Clark?
NEW Zealanders will go to the polls on September 17 with the choice of returning Helen Clark and her Labour Government for a third term or electing Don Brash and his National Party into office. For Israel, there is no doubt that Clark’s tenure has been synonymous…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Long Road to the Lucky Country Makor, $25
MELBOURNE academic Leo Cooper is the latest contributor to Makor’s Write Your Story project. At more than 300…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Road Trip 2005
Braving a 4:30 am wake-up call, the three teams of the Foundation Day road trip; Team Volvo, New College and the Motherfucking Micekateers (MM) assembled below the Guild at 5:30 am…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Why You Shouldn’t Sit Down in the Middle of the Road. Anti-VSU Rally 10 August 2005
There are lots of darn good reasons to sit in the middle of the road but few can be justified by an individual in a sound mental state. In fact, one could even make the ease that sitting on a road…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Chabad’s rocky road to radicalism The recent pronouncements made by Chabad, in the name of the Rebbe, are divisive and dangerous. Dispatches From Home
THERE was a time when Chabad worshipped the God of Love. If there was a God of War, He was commander of a spiritual army…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bridge buddies playing tricks
WITH more than a dozen Jewish competitors from Australia, France, England, Canada, the USA and Israel, the World Youth Team Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jerusalem braces for ‘first-of-its-kind’ bridge
JERUSALEM - Steer clear of the entrance to Jerusalem - for the next two years. That’s the highly-unusual message that the Transportation Ministry and the Jerusalem…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miller’s magic touch Theatre Review a View From the Bridge
ONE of Arthur Miller’s greatest plays, A View from the Bridge, is being lovingly staged at the Ensemble Theatre. This absorbing and moving…
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