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The wars & local soldiers, 1966

168 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9

Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 18 February 1966 · page 10

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 9.30 a.m. The President, Mr. M. Platus, and the acting Minister, Mr. M. Simon, would be happy…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 February 1966 · page 10

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 9.30 a.m. The President, Mr. M. Platus, and the acting Minister, Mr. M. Simon, would be happy…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1966 · page 10

Services: Fri. evening, 6.30 p.m. Sat., 9.30 a.m. Purim: Reading of Megillah, 7 p.m., Sat., March 5. All local and…

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20,000 more Americans for Vietnam war

Tribune · Wednesday 9 March 1966 · page 9

NEW YORK: "More men, more planes, more ships, more money, more material, more wounded, more dead. What was a morass is becoming a…

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Plain Australian a war based on cruelty

Tribune · Wednesday 9 March 1966 · page 2

THE handcuffing of an Australian soldier to a stake in a gunpit for 20 days at the order of his superior…

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Hoodlums wave the US flag Disrupters routed at Vietnam war protest meeting

Tribune · Wednesday 9 March 1966 · page 4

SYDNEY: Labor Party members, Communists and other democrats and peace supporters combined to defeat a carefully organised attempt by fascist-type hoodlums…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1966 · page 10

Services: Fri. evening, 6.30 p.m. Shabbos, 9.30 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9 a.m. Enrolments of new pupils should [?]…

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Vietnam threat "arrant nonsense" Conscription: Legal Challenge Likely "Vietnam is a dirty war, and I don't want to be in it !"

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1966 · page 1

A LEGAL challenge is almost certain to be made to the Federal Government's decision to send 20-year-old conscripts to the Vietnam war…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 18 March 1966 · page 10

Services: Fri. evening, 6.30 p.m. Shabbos, 9.30 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9 a.m. Enrolments of new pupils should be…

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War and Sex

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 March 1966 · page 10

Some toy manufacturers are scornful of those who object to "War Toys", and maintain that children are naturally agressive and need an "outlet." As a father fo four I quite agree with their…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 March 1966 · page 13

Services: Fri. evening, 6.30 p.m. Shabbos, 9.30 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9 a.m. Enrolments of new pupils should be…

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News from Israel Unknown soldiers’ Commem. Day

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 March 1966 · page 11

The traditional anniversary of the birth and death of Moses, Adar 7, has been set aside as Memorial Day for soldiers whose…

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Storm grows on conscription for Vietnam Protests on Living Cost, War Strike wave in Q'land

Tribune · Wednesday 30 March 1966 · page 1

BRISBANE: Tens of thousands of workers in Brisbane and other centres of Queensland held a four-hour strike yesterday (Tuesday) to back up trade union demands…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 1 April 1966 · page 14

Services: Fri, evening, 6.30 p.m. Shabbos, 9.30 a.m. Passover Services: Mon., April 4, 6 p.m.; Tues., April 5, 8 a.m…

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More churchmen join protests Holt's Vietnam war policy is "immoral"

Tribune · Tuesday 5 April 1966 · page 11

SNOWBALLING protests in church circles in Australia against conscription of youth for the Vietnam war are helping focus attention on the falsity of the Federal…

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Many pensioners, too, were broken by war Letters to the Editor

Tribune · Tuesday 5 April 1966 · page 4

WHILE fully supporting your opposition to the Government's policy of sending young men into the wicked Vietnam war, I think people should be reminded that many of today's old age pensioners were, in THEIR young days, thrown into a…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 8 April 1966 · page 10

Services: Fri. evening, 6.30 p.m. Shabbos, 9.30 a.m. Classes: Sunday School in recess until April 17…

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Anzac news

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 12 April 1966 · page 1

Secretaries oF all clubs throughout Holroyd may submit copy regarding Anzac Day services for inclusion in the Broadcaster next Tuesday. Details of meeting points for marches and meeting…

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Project ’66 Kenso V.C."Gateway to Australia's largest post-war University", Kensington '66

Tharunka · Tuesday 12 April 1966 · page 4

Tharunka feels that many students are entitled to an explanation of the closure of the former entrance. After all, they have been forced by this 'stupid and mysterious' action of the administration as two contributing readers last described it) to five days per week of risky duels with drivers on the without the slightest chance of winning, if it comes to the very worst, i.e., BANG…

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Plain Australian War career of Gunner Harold Holt

Tribune · Wednesday 13 April 1966 · page 2

HERE is the good oil on the military career of the new Prime Minister Harold Holt…

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