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The wars & local soldiers, 2003

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Lost and found: odyssey of an ANZAC Torah Alana Rosenbaum tells the remarkable story of how a Torah scroll donated to Jewish ANZACs in World War I was lost for more than 60 years - until being rediscovered in Perth last month

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 October 2003 · page 10

THIS is the story of a Sephardi Torah, no more than a foot high, that survived the Great War, but almost disappeared due to a bureaucratic bungle…

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Yom Tov in Iraq American soldiers celebrated Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in Saddam Hussein's former palace. But some Iraqis became angry when they discovered that some of the US soldiers whom they had just welcomed as liberators - were Jewish. Joe Berkofsky reports

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 October 2003 · page 17

WHEN Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson blew the shofar on Rosh Hashanah last week, it reverberated throughout one of Saddam…

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Israeli Soldier Killed

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 October 2003 · page 12

JERUSALEM - Israeli troops along the Lebanon border were on high alert after suspected Hezbollah militants killed a soldier. Monday’s clash near…

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Commemorating the Yom Kippur War

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 October 2003 · page 4

MARKING the 30th commemoration of the Yom Kippur War, the Hagshama Department together with the Australasian Union of…

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Leading a nation of followers to war Book Review Howard’s War Alison Brolnowski Scribe, $19.95

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 31 October 2003 · page 20

WHY did John Howard go to war against Iraq in 2003? This is the question posed by Alison Broinowski in the third in Scribe’s “short books”…

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World View Soldiering on

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 28 November 2003 · page 12

JERUSALEM - An Israeli couple’s appeal for a surrogate mother to be inseminated with their dead son’s sperm drew 28 applicants. The…

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Flirts, Como and a war bride’s memoirs the Street Guide to Flirting Andrew Bryant and Michelle Lia Lewis Allen & Unwin, $19.95

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 28 November 2003 · page 20

PEACOCKS preen, monkeys display their rear ends, humans flirt. The trouble is that accomplishment in these mating rituals can determine…

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