The promised land Down Under An exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia examines the role played by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in post-World War II, which brought Holocaust survivors from the Displaced Persons camps of Europe to a new future in Australia. Curator Sarah Rood examines this pivotal chapter in Australian Jewish history
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 15 August 2008 · page 6
SHE is a 26-year-old dressmaker. A typewritten address “Azbergerlager” has been crossed out and “Rothschild…
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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 August 2008 · page 6
MORE than a decade after NCJWA was established, World War II broke out. In its wake, thousands of Diaspora Jews boarded migrant ships from Europe to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in Georgia muddles efforts to confront Iran ANALYSIS
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 August 2008 · page 10
WASHINGTON DC - Escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the war in Georgia are raising concerns in Israel that broken relations with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Baby, it's cold (war) outside The Americans are talking tough over Georgia. But what action the US takes will tell much about how powerful a country it is in the early stages of the 21st century. American Angle
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 August 2008 · page 20
IT was a near slip by Lawrence Eagleburger, former secretary of state to George H W Bush: “We have to stand up for what’s right,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →War and lethargy The guns are now silent in Georgia in a battle that sparked the attention, but not much more, of the West And therein lies the sobering lesson for Israel. VIEWPOINT
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 August 2008 · page 20
THE guns seem to have quieted in the small Caucasian state of Georgia as the Russian military slowly retreated to the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Vox Pop Should accused war criminal Charles Zentai be spared extradition because of his age?
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 September 2008 · page 18
No, because that would say that there's a time limit for justice, and there isn't If he did the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A powerful war story in yellows and grays Film review Waltz with Bashir
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 September 2008 · page 10
WE Jews are excellent at remembering, with many of our major festivals V V organised around re-telling of historic events. But what happens when…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Finding hope in a bunker Book review Clara’s War Clara Kramer with Stephen Glantz Ebury Press Australia, $34.95
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 19 September 2008 · page 10
FIVE thousand Jews lived in the small Polish city of Zolkiew, prior to World War Fifteeh-year-old Clara Kramer thought her family had lived there forever,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cover story Drawn from memory Israeli director Ari Folman has pieced together his forgotten experiences of the 1982 Lebanon war in animated documentary Waltz With Bashir. Adam Kamien reports
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 19 September 2008 · page 6
WAR is hell and few know this better than former Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldier Ari Folman — even if he had, until…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lest we forget A veteran strives to keep the memory alive of jews who fought - and died - in the Soviet army in World War Ii. Lea Zelerman reports
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 October 2008 · page 23
LEONID Shenker likes to greet visitors to his apartment dressed in his Soviet military ensemble, the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The spitting distance of war A play looking at life amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict opens in Sydney next week. Lexi Landsman speaks to Israeli director Ofira Henig about the questions it raises
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 October 2008 · page 11
WE live in a culture of fear, one that has been exacerbated in the post-9/11 world. It’s that which Israeli director Ofira…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War through children’s eyes
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 October 2008 · page 11
SEEING war through the eyes of children is probably the most confronting depiction we get from war zones. So when Jewish producer Joanna Fishman…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Us Man Investigated for Nazi War Crimes
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 October 2008 · page 14
BELGRADE - United States and Serbian officials are cooperating on an investigation of an American citizen who allegedly committed war crimes in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →American Jewish Soldier Attacked
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 October 2008 · page 14
NEW YORK - Army officials at Fort Benning are investigating the claims of a Jewish soldier who said he was beaten days after complaining of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The distance of war Theatre Review in Spitting Distance
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 October 2008 · page 11
IN Ramaliah, spitting is a common act. “The youth do nothing but spit — they spit everywhere, constantly, in all directions and extremely fast. Each one of them spit in one…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Arts My top five Ben Maparstek asks US author and political adviser Robert Kagan about his top five reads. Dean Acheson: a Life in the Cold War
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 October 2008 · page 10
“It’s the best rendition of arguably the most important secretary of state in the 20th century. It gives a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Monash: the Forgotten Anzac Abc, Tuesday, November 11, 8.30pm
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 7 November 2008 · page 5
The military career of Sir Jonn Monash is examined in this documentary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Book launched in honour of kidnapped soldiers
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 14 November 2008 · page 11
RAANANA - Bo Habayta (Come Home), a book featuring poems written by Israeli teens in honour of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit and slain reservists…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →German war-crimes trial for John Demjanjuk
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 21 November 2008 · page 12
BERLIN - Former Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk may face a war-crimes trial in Germany after officials said new evidence would be…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The tragedy in Mumbai Rebbe’s army soldiers on
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 December 2008 · page 16
SAN FRANCISCO — Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, the Chabad emissaries brutally murdered last week in Mumbai, ran the Jewish centre they…
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