ANZAC Torah inspires Perth Jews to remember
IT may have spent 65 years lost in the bowels of a Western Australian museum, but the ANZAC Torah was the main attraction at the Perth Jewish…
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The wars & local soldiers, 2006
128 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 7
Bin Laden: West at ‘Zionist’ war with Islam
JERUSALEM – Master terrorist Osama bin Laden (pictured) said this week that the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Around Australia Wa Funds Jewish War Memorial Repairs
PERTH - The Western Australian Government has made good on its agreement to fund much-needed repairs for the 86-year-old, heritage-listed Jewish War…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Corporal Hitler and the Great War Routledge, $59.95
WHAT factors ted to Hitler’s maniacal reign is one of the great questions asked not only of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →been & seen Lest we forget... Jocelyn Robuck jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au More than 200 people attended the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women’s annual ANZAC Day wreath-laying service at the Jewish War Memorial on April 23
Photos: Warren Norris/NAJEX Brian Nebenzahl (back) with Albert Hertzberg and Beryl Blashki…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →10 questions for... War crimes historian and senior advisor to the NSW premier
How do you feel about war criminals living out their lives unpunished? It makes me feel deeply ashamed that the people who our fathers and grandfathers sacrificed their lives opposing have knowingly been welcomed in Australia and allowed to live as if they were…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →‘Soldier for Peace’
HOLLYWOOD superstar Will Smith inadvertently caused an uproar when he visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall last week, after screaming girls began pushing against the gender division barrier to get a good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ehud Olmert: a pragmatic triumph Neither a patriarch nor a war hero, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's chairman-of-the-board approach epitomises a new world view, argues Chemi Shalev
A few days before the Israeli elections, Education Minister Meir Sheetrit, a former Likud stalwart, made a peculiar boast about the newly-formed Kadima…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The least we can do is respect VIEWPOINT How can a bereaved father, indeed how can we all, thank the courageous soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice for the entire Jewish people?
WHAT can I give to my soldier son who has died? There is nothing physical that can reach him now;…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Nation mourns fallen soldiers
JERUSALEM - “It is because of the fallen soldiers the State of Israel was established…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cover story Fashion fever Ahead of the race with lace The Jewish community has been intricately linked with Australia’s fashion trade since its very inception. It was overwhelming Jewish involvement in the industry’s glory days, after World War II, that saw it nicknamed the schmatte trade. Changes to the industry in the 1960s and 70s caused a major slump and many Jews left the business. Now, a new wave of young Jewish designers are wowing critics, buyers, and the fashion-wearing public with innovative designs. Mark Franklin, Meussa Singer and Lorin Blumenthal report on the 2006 Mercedes Australian Fashion Week
A WEEK ago nobody knew her name. Now, after a hit fashion show and a barrage of glowing publicity, Micaela Ezra is on the lips of fashion writers, buyers and designers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Playwright’s memorial to hardships of World War II
BEFORE even a word of the play was written, Over the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Snubbing soldier disciplined
JERUSALEM - Passions in Israel are flaring in the wake of the Israeli army’s decision to depose from his unit a soldier who refused to shake…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A New Kind of War?
Once upon a time, there was a concept of chivalry, and a set of rules for conduct in war. While they weren't always effective, these rules were generally accepted as the right sort of thing to do. They included things…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Hamas-Fatah: local confrontation or civil war? News Analysis
GAZA - The question on the Palestinian street is no longer when civil war will break out, but when will it end. Armed dashes between Hamas and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Zionist parallel to Lawrence of Arabia Book review an Anzac Zionist Hero
ELIAZAR Margolin is principally remembered in Israel as the Australian-Jewish soldier whose heroism as head of the Jewish Legion saved Jewish lives in Palestine…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gillerman: World War III already begun
NEW YORK - Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Gillerman (pictured)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Socceroos Supplement 2006 How Hiddink’s father saved jews during the war Guus Hiddink's father faked break-ins to the food-coupon offices in his small Dutch village during World War II to feed several Jews who were in hiding in farmhouses, reveals Chemi Shalev
SOCCEROOS coach Guus Hiddink’s father, Gerhardus (Gerrit) Hiddink, stole food coupons during World War II in order to feed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fear and loathing in Sderot Sderot, a southern Israeli town, has borne the brunt of Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip before - and after - Israel's withdrawal last August. Now, as the IDF tries to free a soldier held hostage in Gaza, Sderot's children fear for their future, writes Uriel Heilman
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Shir Lazmi says she loves going to school. Why? Because she’s not really allowed to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A Just War
THE immorality and illegality of the unprovoked acts of war by Hamas and Hezbollah are self-evident In 2000, Israel withdrew from…
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