‘It is our duty to give missing soldiers a proper Jewish burial’
IN Avner “Nery” Ereli’s line of work, finding the remains of a dead body is considered a good day at the office. As head of the Itur Nedarim division…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 2006
128 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 7
Eight Wounded in Moscow Shul Attack ‘Kremlin lax on antisemitism’
MOSCOW - Jewish leaders have blamed Russian authorities, lawenforcement agencies and societal attitudes for a stabbing attack last week at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Likud MKs ‘declare war’ on Bibi
TEL AVIV - Stung by their setback in last week’s Likud party primaries and by their subsequent forced resignation from the cabinet, Likud ministers are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Refreshing view of life in the Israeli Army Book Review Company C: an American’s Life As a Citizen-soldier in Israel Halm Watzman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $48
HAIM Watzman makes it perfectly clear early in this autobiographical account that he does not fit the army stereotype…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Gallop resignation prompts delay of repairs to WA Jewish War Memorial
THE resignation last week of Western Australia Premier Geoff Gallop has delayed urgent repairs to Perth’s Jewish War Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian World War Two Veteran Awarded France's Highest Honour
World War Two Veteran Maxwell Staunton-Smith was presented with France's highest decoration, the Legion of Honour by French Ambassador François Descoueyte at a ceremony in Hobart on 28 April. Mr Staunton-Smith is the last of a group of ten World War Two Veterans…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Is religion responsible for war? Ask the Rabbi I am Jewish but cannot embrace Judaism as a religion. I believe that religion is the cause of war and the world would be better off if it weren't for religion
REJECTING Judaism because you believe in world peace is like refusing to enter a Japanese restaurant because you don’t like…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Outlook In November 1944, as the Holocaust ravaged Hungary, a young Jew was beaten to death in Budapest and flung into the Danube. Two Hungarian soldiers were jailed for that crime 59 years ago, but now a Perth pensioner could face a court in Hungary, accused of being an accomplice in the murder of Peter Balazs. Peter Kohn retraces the events that have led to an extradition hearing that starts on Monday, and the legal wrangling that could result from it
FROM Jerusalem to Canberra, Perth to Budapest, the procedural drama that has embroiled West…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →JNF hosts Israeli former POW More than 75 people attended the JNF Corporate Forum held on February 16 at the Royal Motor Yacht Club to hear Amos Levitov’s story, an Israeli Air Force pilot who survived as a prisoner of war in Egypt for three-and-a-half years
Photos: Ingrid Shakenvosky David Glass, Michael Melamed. David Edelstein (left), Alex Abulafia…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Barak re-enlists
TEL AVIV - In an effort to shore up his parly’s sagging fortunes in the polls, former prime minister Ehud Barak…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tharunka Declares War On: A List James Blunt
This guy is unbelievable. Actually, forget the guy. The phenomenon of James Blunt is unbelievable. Every time I turn on the television or radio, I hear one of his songs. Or rather, I don’t hear it, I just know it’s…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Shticking it to you Jewish war-fare
PITY the humble French fry. Of all the unfortunate instances of so-called collateral damage in this wacky war on terror, I think the totally innocent stick of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Islamophobia: not just a racist ghost story Dispatches From Home To win the war on terror, we must silence the preachers of hate, but as Jews, we must also denounce causeless bigotry against Muslims
IN 1881, two years after the word antisemitism was introduced into our vocabulary by one of its leading practitioners, an alternative…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →War of words sparks exodus at Brisbane temple
THREE members of the board of Brisbane’s Progressive Beit Knesset Shalom have resigned amid claims by the president of intimidation and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Danby visits ANZAC Cove
FEDERAL MP Michael Danby described his visit last week to Gallipoli as “an emotional experience”. In Istanbul at a human rights…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anzac Day ‘War is the worst thing’
AUSTRALIA’S World War II campaign was at its peak when Elvira Adelstein joined the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and became one of only five…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Jewish Anzac Facts
There were 55 Jewish Diggers among the 8709 Australians (not including Kiwis) who died at Gallipoli; A total of 2304 Jewish men enlisted in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →ANZAC Day and Yom Hashoah
THIS week’s convergence of ANZAC Day and Yom Hashoah, for the first time since 1968, may be coincidental, but it nonetheless provides an opportunity to reflect on the importance of these two commemorations…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Yom Hashoah, Anzac Day Memorials
FOR the first time since 1968, Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, coincided this week with ANZAC Day, the memorial day for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ANZAC Zionist hero hailed in new book
A NEW book reveals the prominent role that an ANZAC Digger who fought at Gallipoli went on to play in assisting the Jewish settlement that laid…
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