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John Key, the Holocaust and his mother

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has told an Auckland meeting commemorating United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day about his mother’s escape from Nazi Europe. [Read more]

NZ Prime Minister launches Holocaust project

New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key today will launch a unique, New Zealand-produced artistic educational project, ‘Shadows of Shoah’ at the official Auckland commemoration of the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UNIHRD)…a move appreciated by Israel’s ambassador to new Zealand. [Read more]

Flotilla Activism Hurts Chances for Peace

Another round of “Flotilla Activism” aimed at inciting greater tension in the Arab-Israeli conflict is underway. Just like last year’s infamous Flotilla incident that resulted in nine deaths, this latest crop of flotilla participants – a fringe group of extremists working alongside terrorists – is more concerned with their own PR and promoting hate, violence, and chaos, rather than on working with Israelis and Palestinians to find peaceful solutions to the conflict. [Read more]

Fallen Kiwis remembered in Israel

There were definitely some warning signs, Shoshan Purim in Jerusalem, a bizarre spy episode in Dubai, but the surprises that awaited me in Ness Tziona took me totally off guard. [Read more]

A Gift to the Nation

Emotions ran high at a special event to celebrate an iconic New Zealand Jewish photographer’s gift of a significant collection of vintage prints of elderly Maori women with moko, to New Zealand’s national museum. [Read more]

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