Nov-14 9:20pm SBS Viceland: Greater Escapes with Morgan Freeman – The Sobibor Revolt
October 23, 2024 by Features Desk
During World War II, at Sobibor, Poland, a small group of Jews who were forced to keep the camp operational engineered a daring mass escape that saved many of their lives.
Simon Tedeschi does jazz
October 23, 2024 by Features Desk
One of Australia’s best-loved international pianists, Simon Tedeschi, returns to Sydney’s spectacular and historic Great Synagogue with a program of sublime jazz standards. Read more
L’Chaim to Life
October 10, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Peter Hartcher, award-winning political and international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, and non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, about his op-ed in the above papers, titled, ‘Too ugly to imagine: Australia can’t allow ancient hatreds, like antisemitism, to fester’. Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Jacqueline Maley
September 22, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Jacqueline Maley, columnist and senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, about her recent Sunday Age opinion piece: “What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides”. Read more
L’Chaim to Life
September 19, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Trevor Asserson, who put together a large team of lawyers and data experts to investigate the BBC bias reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict post October 7. Read more
L’Chaim to Life
August 29, 2024 by Features Desk
Israel At War Mythbuster – Suicide and Rape Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
August 20, 2024 by Features Desk
Trevor George Rapke – a Queen’s Counsel – colourful, strong, fair, and fearless Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
August 13, 2024 by Features Desk
Julia Rachel Rapke – feminist and civil rights activist Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
August 6, 2024 by Features Desk
Sir Philip David Phillips – an outstanding and respected lawyer gifted with an exceptional memory Read more
L’Chaim to Life
August 4, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Joe Gersh, former ABC Director. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
July 30, 2024 by Features Desk
Philip Masel OBE – businessman, writer, army officer Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
July 23, 2024 by Features Desk
Marion Phillips – Australian-born British Labour Party Politician and Member of Parliament Read more
L’Chaim to Life
July 18, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet, Resident Historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum, about his view that Holocaust and antisemitism education has done nothing to prevent the recent global upsurge in hate crimes and antisemitism. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish past
July 16, 2024 by Features Desk
Slawa Duldig née Horowitz – inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Dan Coleman – It’s not easy being a Jewish Green
July 11, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Dan Coleman, an environmental activist for almost 40 years, co-founder in 2016 of the Jewish Greens Working Group and since January this year, a former member of the Australian Greens, about his time as a ‘Green’ and the circumstances that led him to resign from that party. Dan also talks about the dismal outlook for the environment due to global governmental inaction. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
July 9, 2024 by Features Desk
Robert Pikler – violinist, violist and conductor Read more
L’Chaim to Life: Senator Paul Scarr “a lack of specific programs to combat antisemitism”
July 5, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Senator Paul Scarr, member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and Liberal Senator for Queensland, who is currently chairing the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee enquiring into right-wing extremist movements in Australia.
From Australia’s Jewish Past
July 2, 2024 by Features Desk
Lillian Roxon – foreign correspondent rock journalist and author – best known for the first Rock Encyclopaedia Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
June 25, 2024 by Features Desk
Morris Mondle Phillips – a trailblazer for the legal profession Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
June 18, 2024 by Features Desk
Rabbi Lazarus Morris Goldman – his whole soul was dedicated to life in Australia – an achiever and most dedicated human being Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
June 4, 2024 by Features Desk
David Samuel Benjamin – Merchant and Prominent Jewish and Non-Jewish Organisational ‘’Mensch’’ Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
May 28, 2024 by Features Desk
A Tragic Family Accident – Hawkesbury River Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past
May 21, 2024 by Features Desk
Sally Morris MBE – Never-ending enthusiasm, amazing energy and ideas and exceptional power of leadership
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From Australia’s Jewish Past
May 14, 2024 by Features Desk
Saul Symonds – barrister and Australian communal leader Read more
L’Chaim to Life
May 9, 2024 by Features Desk
A/Prof Efrat Eilam – Calling anyone who is employed at an Australian university Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life
May 2, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Rev Mark Leach, co-founder of ‘Never Again Is Now’, a grassroots Christian movement educating and mobilising Christians to actively stand against the oldest of the world’s hatreds: Jew-hatred-antisemitism. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Alan Philip Frankel – a World War I Veteran’s Journey
April 30, 2024 by Features Desk
The last story before Pesach was written about Philip Louis Frankel. Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life
April 18, 2024 by Features Desk
Maurice Klein speaks with Aussies Avi and Raffi Feldman about their volunteering in Israel with SAR-EL on IDF bases in a logistical support role. Read more
From Australia’s Jewish Past: Michael Cashmore
April 16, 2024 by Features Desk
Michael Cashmore – a most important business, community, and family Melburnian from the early days Read more
Podcast: L’Chaim to Life
April 11, 2024 by Features Desk
Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Ron Elisha, renowned and prolific playwright about “Rootless Cosmopolitans”, the most recent of his plays to be produced in Australia. Read more
