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August 15, 2016 by Eli Levi
Some of Australia’s most talented female writers have teamed up to share their experiences of defying and challenging societal expectations in a new book, Rebellious Daughters.
The ever-popular biennial Yom Limmud Sydney will take place on Sunday, July 3, offering a program led by leading international and local presenters. [Read more]
March 4, 2016 by Sharon Berger
Master Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret had the capacity crowd at Bondi Pavilion on the edge of their seats at his only Sydney event as a guest of the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival. [Read more]
July 30, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Over 400 people attended The Shalom Institute’s sixth Graf Oration held in Sydney this week, [Read more]
July 24, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Ground breaking Israeli television director and writer of Prisoners of War and Homeland, Gideon Raff, New York Times foreign affairs editor Roger Cohen and German-Nigerian author Jennifer Teege, whose grandfather was a brutal Nazi commandant, are three of the headline speakers at the upcoming Sydney Jewish Writers Festival (SJWF) this August 29-30. [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
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
