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The wars & local soldiers, 1998

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on tv war criminal

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 February 1998 · page 15

ABC presents Rule 61: A Case Against Radovan Karadzic, February 7,9.30pm. Film-maker Ivo Burum makes a personal journey back to the Balkans to ask…

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Missiles, gasmasks in case of war

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 February 1998 · page 3

JERUSALEM: Israel has deployed four batteries of Patriot anti-ballistic missiles…

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War reunion

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 February 1998 · page 9

A GATHERING of Diaspora volunteers who participated in Israel's War of Independence in 194849 will be held in Israel as part of the 50th-anniversary celebrations under the…

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When Moishe met Hershel The immigration authorities treated Moishe Ajzenbud and Hershel Balter as borderline cases in more ways than one. In 1950 they beat strict quotas on Jewish migrants allowed into post-war Australia and were sent into limbo — to the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre on the NSW-Victoria border. Peter Kohn reports

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 February 1998 · page 16

FORTY-SEVEN years ago, with the embers of the Shoah still smouldering, two young men first shook hands under a harsh Australian…

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on tv war romance

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 17

SBS screens Rainer Werner Fassbinder film Lili Marlene February 22. 10.10pm. A Swiss-Jewish composer and German singer are separated by World War II…

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war crimes

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 February 1998 · page 17

SBS presents The Cutting Edge: War Crimes on Trial March 3, 8pm. Fifty years after Nuremberg, the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague found…

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Italy’s Jews split over stunning war crimes decision

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 March 1998 · page 15

ROME: The case involving former Nazi SS Captain Erich Priebke has taken more than a few dramatic twists since he was discovered in South America a decade ago. The latest act in the…

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Lebanon War mastermind suggests withdrawal

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 March 1998 · page 13

JERUSALEM: The man who led Israel's 1982 invasion into Lebanon has called for a phased Israeli troop withdrawal from Southern Lebanon…

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anzac spirit

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 March 1998 · page 17

MASONIC Lodge Mark Owen lecture by a Vietnam veteran on “The Spirit of Anzac - Then and Now”, Masonic Centre, cnr Castlereagh and Goulbum, April 8.93621117…

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Maccabi "civil war" Match of the Week

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 March 1998 · page 47

MACCABI Cougars were one of the club’s three winners in last weeks round of City of Sydney Association basketball matches…

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anzac spirit

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 April 1998 · page 17

MASONIC Lodge Mark Owen lecture by a Vietnam veteran on ‘The Spirit of Anzac — Then and Now”, Masonic Centre, cnr Castlereagh and Goulbum, April 8. 9362…

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community notebook Glasser to address Najex Anzac service

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 April 1998 · page 20

COMMUNITY identity Neil Glasser will present the keynote address at the annual Najex Anzac service, to be held at the Sydney Jewish Museum on April 26. A member of the Royal Australian Air Force during…

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feature What really happened at Deir Yassin? Fifty years after the event, the dust still hasn't settled over what has been recorded in history as the massacre of Deir Yassin. Daniel Kurtzman reports on one of the most controversial episodes of Israel's War of Independence

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 April 1998 · page 15

WASHINGTON: Fifty years after Israel became a State, the tragic story of an Arab village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem once again haunts the delicate…

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opinion Editorial Anzac Day History

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 April 1998 · page 14

THE homage being paid this Anzac Day to the memory of the 55 Jewish Diggers who fought at Gallipoli and died for Australia is long overdue…

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55 Jewish Diggers who fell at Gallipoli honoured on Anzac Day Canberra File

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 April 1998 · page 10

THIS Anzac Day, 55 Jewish Diggers who fought at Gallipoli and died for their country will be honoured individually at the Australian War…

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Jews started the war, the revolution and the Shoah— Zhirinovsky

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 April 1998 · page 13

MOSCOW: Russia’s most famous antisemite has outdone himself. In an hour-long news conference in Moscow last week, ultranationalist…

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CONTRASTEN door Andries Snoek ANZAC

Dutch Weekly · Monday 27 April 1998 · page 11

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Anzac story in dance BALLET 1914

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 May 1998 · page 44

APPROPRIATELY being performed in its world premiere season at the Opera House through the Anzac commemoration period, 1914 is a major…

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50 years of rescue HISTORY Alongside the continuing saga of war and peace, the story of rescue and immigration which brought millions of Jews to Israel is one of the great dramas of the Jewish state. Baruch Gur surveys the history

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 May 1998 · page 3

ONE OF the most important lessons to be learned from the Holocaust and one that has been a principle motif throughout Jewish history, is that no Jews are…

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Out & about Najex Anzac service

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 May 1998 · page 29

THE National Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women held its annual Anzae Day parade and memorial service last weekend. It was held at…

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