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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
Amen!
To be honest, a very dry, cursory, quite un-inspired , even truncated getting-it-out-of the-way dispatch. What “impressed” me was the sudden refference to Yom Kippur and the very fact that we, the Jews, are told what Yom Kippur means…..
I also seriously consider it VERY insensitive that someone could not leave OTHERS out of the context.
WHY would any sensible person throw in the palestinians on a very brief, a couple of paragraphs, message on a – actually two – very strict Jewish celebration.
But to our PM Yom Kippur and considerations for the palestinians makes sense…………….