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Thursday evening marks New Year for the Chabad movement and Sydney’s Young Adult Chabad is hosting a farbrengen to celebrate the occasion.
The Chabad New Year marks the release from custody of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Rebbe of Chabad. He had been held in prison in Russia on trumped up charges of supporting the Ottoman Empire.
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
