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May 19, 2015 by Donna Surdut
More than 400 supporters attended Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s 2015 Annual Appeal Dinner. [Read more]
May 15, 2015 by Ayal Tusia
Jewish Care volunteer Masha Zeleznikow has won an award The 2015 Victorian Minister for Health Volunteer Awards…a part of National Volunteer Week. [Read more]
May 14, 2015 by Ayal Tusia
Older members of Melbourne’s community reflect on their earlier romantic, or not so romantic, days…a Jewish Care video. [Read more]
December 18, 2014 by Ayal Tusia
Senior Policy Analyst for the Claims Conference in New York, Dr Madeleine Tress has visited Melbourne meeting with Holocaust survivors and key community members. [Read more]
November 27, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Melbourne’s Jewish Care has been made aware of sexual abuse incidents involving children in residential care in the 1960s. [Read more]
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
