Stop bickering and start focusing on winning the war on terror VIEWPOINT
HAS Australia’s alliance with the US and its participation in the US-led war in Iraq increased the risk of Islamist terrorists carrying…
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The wars & local soldiers, 2004
64 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4
1100 at UIA Women’s Division About 1100 women attended four United Israel Appeal Women’s Division functions. They were addressed by two Israeli soldiers, Lieutenant Esther Pechanac and Second Lieutenant Awuka Talala, as well as by Sha’are Zedek Hospital public relations director Emunah Hasin
Photos: Paul Green Fay Blick, Carole Singer. Lion of Judah recipients Catherine Cunio, Barbara Cohen, Kathy Miller…
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FORMER NSW governor Gordon Samuels will be the official guest speaker at the National Association of Jewish Ex- Servicemen (NAJEX) Anzac Day Service on April 25 at the Jewish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Howard denies War on Latham based on false intelligence
THE Prime Minister has dismissed allegations that his pre-emptive attack on Mark Latham in Parliament this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vox Pop It’s a year since the Iraq war began; was it a mistake?
Yes; they had ulterior motives, not to liberate the Iraqi people. We are now far more…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Islam’s faithful from rigid to rebellious Book Reviews the Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror Bernard Lewis Phoenix Press, $21.95 the Trouble with Islam: a Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith Irshad Manji Random House, $32.95
DAILY we are assaulted by negative news about Islam and the Muslims. The media is full of “talking heads” on the subject, but many commentators…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Bowlers to mark Anzac Day during Maccabi-Bays match
LAWN bowlers will commemorate Anzac Day during the 2nd annual Maccabi v The Bays challenge match at Double Bay Bowling Club on April…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Mission impossible? Bringing soldiers back from the dead
COLONEL Moshe Zarka has spent three-and-a-half years of his life searching for five men who are most likely dead…
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MARGARET Beadman, a voluntary worker at the Australian War Memorial, has advised me that any descendant of an ANZAC solider who…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hungary For Success More than 500,000 Hungarian Jews perished in World War II - about half of the pre-war Jewish community. But many of those who survived made their way to Sydney, where a new Hungarian Jewish community flourished Down Under. jacqui gal takes a nostalgic stroll through the cafes of “Little Budapest”
WHITE bread, milk bars, lamingtons and devon - these were the icons that greeted Jewish refugees who escaped Hungary and arrived in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AICE bid to quash Israeli stereotype A new organisation is challenging the stereotype of Israel as a war-torn country. Peter Kohn talks to the founders of the Australia-lsrael Cultural Exchange, an arts and cultural group that aims to showcase Israel’s thriving arts industry
IMAGINE, just for a moment, Aboriginal artists painting in the Negev Desert? Sounds fanciful, right? Wrong. This wild dream will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Remembering Jewish soldiers on ANZAC Day
WITH a dog-tag stating name, number and religion, Jewish soldiers were clearly among the brave commemorated on ANZAC day. The annual NSW Association of Jewish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Digger reflects on treating the wounded
“WE were just preoccupied doing our job.” With those unremarkable words, Dr Victor Brand of Brighton plays…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANZAC Day,Yom Hazikaron and the supreme sacrifice
ON Sunday, ANZAC Day - Australia’s memorial day for its fallen soldiers - coincided with Yom Hazikaron - Israel’s memorial day for its fallen. Not since 1993 have these two days - both of which are seared into the national consciousness of both peoples…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Bays take out ANZAC Day lawn bowls battle
MACCABI Lawn Bowls Guild lost the ANZAC Day batde against The Bays (Double Bay and Diamond Bay bowling clubs) and forfeited the Bernie Garden Trophy last…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Intifada victims: the Australian connection Malki Roth More than 20,000 IDF soldiers have fallen defending Israel, and more than 1000 Jews have died in the intifada. At least three of them have Australian connections
ON August 9, 2001, the life of 15-year-old Malki Roth was cut short by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London honour for roving ambassador of stamps Max Stern may be 83, but he still works ‘eight days a week’ in philately - which saved his life during the war. Just back from London, where he was awarded a philatelic honour, his next project is a tri-nation stamp marking the centenary of the death of Theodor Herzl. Peter Kohn reports
MAX Stern, 83, bounds out of the back of a taxi like a man half his age, loping towards me down the driveway of his Caulfield house, hand…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY life This Week in the Community 50 years of Law and Order This week marks 50 years since Judge Harvey Cooper joined the bench. He spoke to Jacqui Gal about his distinguished career and what it was like arriving in Australia on the brink of World War II
SOME people seem to change careers almost as often as their socks, so it's all the more impressive that Judge Harvey Cooper has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nederlanders weer achteraan in ANZAC parade door Wabe Roskam
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Continued on Trove, page 22 →‘This war is definitely winnable’ The war on terrorism is definitely winnable, argues Israeli political scientist Saul Singer. Vic Alhadeff caught up with him while in Jerusalem recently
SOME people say terrorism is caused by grievances and that if you meet those grievances you will stop the terror…
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