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The wars & local soldiers, 1983

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New book refutes 1973 War history

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 August 1983 · page 11

TEL AVIV — The official Israel Defence Forces account of the Yom Kippur War says that Brigadier Shmuel Gonen, OC Southern Command when the war broke out, was not to blame for the lack of soldiers in the front line on the day of the invasion…

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Kingsford-maroubra Hebrew Congregation 635 Anzac Pde., Maroubra Rabbi D. Freilich Phone 344-0152

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 August 1983 · page 14

SERVICES: Mon., Thurs., and Rosh Chodesh 6.30am. Fri. 6pm; Sat. 9am, Minchah — one hour before sunset…

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Move to end test on ‘war’ pensions

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 August 1983 · page 20

Australian Democrats leader Senator Don Chipp has called on the Federal government to exempt German war pensions from the means test on aged…

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Ex-NATO General Blasts U. S. War Plans

Tharunka · Monday 15 August 1983 · page 15

Ex-NATO General Michael Tombopoulos, was recently in Australia as the guest of the Australian peace movement. General Tombopoulos, formerly an airforce officer based at NATO’s Tactical Airforce Headquarters in Europe, is now a leading figure in the world-wide…

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Kingsford-maroubra Hebrew Congregation 635 Anzac Pde., Maroubra Rabbi D. Freilich Phone 344-0152

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 August 1983 · page 14

SERVICES: Mon., Thurs., and Rosh Chodesh 6.30am. Fri. 6pm; Sat. 9am, Minchah — one hour before sunset…

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Soldiers Protest to Begin

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 August 1983 · page 11

Reservists recently returned from serving in Lebanon demonstrate against Israel’s…

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BOOKS Viet Nam: A useless, mysterious war?

Tribune · Wednesday 24 August 1983 · page 12

Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr has called the conflict in Viet Nam "the most useless, most mysterious war". But the premise of Michael Maclear's book is that this judgment is "only partly right. The only mystery is that…

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New book on Lebanon war

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1983 · page 15

The PLO in Lebanon, a collection of claasified documents seized by Israel in Sidon last year, is now…

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War refugees reunited at Rothschild mansion

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1983 · page 11

LONDON: Fifteen Jewish men from the United States, Canada, Britain and Israel made a pilgrimage to the Rothschild home at Waddesdon last week to pay honor to Dorothy de Rothschild, who rescued them from Germany on the eve of World War II…

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Kingsford-maroubra Hebrew Congregation 635 Anzac Pde., Maroubra Rabbi D. Freilich Phone 344-0152

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1983 · page 14

SERVICES: Mon., Thurs., and Rosh Chodesh 6.30am. Fri. 6pm; Sat. 9am, Minchah — one hour before sunset…

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Television Abc tele series on World War II

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1983 · page 20

Sir Laurence Olivier narrates a 26-episode British production, The World at War, now screening on Thursday nights on ABC Channel 2…

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THEATRE Joan -- a Soldier of God versus the meat tycoon St Joan of the Stockyards, a play by Bertolt Brecht. Now playing at the Seymour Centre's Downstairs Theatre in Sydney. Produced by the Stockyard Cooperative. Directed by Beverly Blankenship

Tribune · Wednesday 31 August 1983 · page 12

The Stockyard Co-operative's revival of Bertolt Brecht's vision of capitalist America in the 1930s raises many interesting…

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Kingsford-maroubra Hebrew Congregation 635 Anzac Pde., Maroubra Rabbi D. Freilich Phone 344-0152

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 September 1983 · page 14

SERVICES: Mon., Thurs., and Rosh Chodesh 6.30am. Fri. 6pm; Sat. 9am, Minchah — one hour before sunset…

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Altar Ego War

Tharunka · Tuesday 6 September 1983 · page 20

Sydney’s Altar Ego have just released their debut single War. Written in Colombo, the single has been produced by Belfast born…

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Year of Lebanon war and ‘peace’

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 7 September 1983 · page 51

THE YEAR 5743 will be remembered as the year of Israel’s war in Lebanon. It opened with its nadir…

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Kingsford-maroubra Hebrew Congregation 635 Anzac Pde., Maroubra Rabbi D. Freilich Phone 344-0152

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 7 September 1983 · page 16

SERVICES: Mon., Thurs., and Rosh Chodesh 6.30am. Fri. 6pm; Sat. 9am, Minchah — one hour before sunset…

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Cold War The Korean Airline tragedy: unanswered Questions abound

Tribune · Wednesday 14 September 1983 · page 10

Many mysteries still surround the flight and shooting down of the ill-fated Korean Airlines flight 007 on September 1. But few mysteries surround the use of this tragic incident by President Reagan to whip up even…

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Lebanon Us, France may intervene as civil war escalates

Tribune · Wednesday 14 September 1983 · page 7

LEBANON: The big build-up of US and French forces off the coast near Beirut could foreshadow more active intervention by these countries on the side of the Lebanese army and the rightwing Phalangist forces…

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Israel Concern at New Lebanese War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 September 1983 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Israel is closely monitoring the battles between Druze and Christian militias which have raged in the Lebanese Shout Mountains since Israeli troops withdrew from the areas…

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Kingsford-maroubra Hebrew Congregation 635 Anzac Pde., Maroubra Rabbi D. Freilich Phone 344-0152

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 September 1983 · page 14

SERVICES: Mon., Thurs., and Rosh Chodesh 6.30am. Fri. 6pm; Sat. 9am, Minchah — one hour before sunset…

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