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The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has written to Australia’s new Prime Minister warmly congratulating him on his electoral victory.
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Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
The voting results in the Senate show how wary Australians are of any ‘clear mandate to govern’ is concerned.
Given Tony Abbott’s position on equal rights under civil law for same-sex attracted people, one can only assume the ECAJ are not including the welfare and equal rights of same-sex attracted and gender-diverse people in “our community”.