Author: Jmedia Manager

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The forgotten true story of a father’s brave defiance of the Nazis — and his heroic attempts to save Jews in the war — has been uncovered. Unlocking her own family’s heroic Holocaust survival story was the inspiration for award-winning author SUSANNE GERVAY OAM to write a powerful new novel — and despite the subject…

Nazi-looted treasure returned to heirs in Australia after 80 years

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

A small, brown, glass perfume bottle with a neat gold trim is causing excitement at Sydney’s Jewish Museum. This piece, recently donated by heritage consultant, David Logan, becomes the first artwork in the museum that was taken from a Jewish private collection by the Nazis and subsequently restored to its rightful heirs some 80 years…

Foreign Ministers of Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the UAE, meet to shake narrative of Middle East

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in Online, Other Communities

Cyprus, Greece, Israels and the UAE said they would seek to deepen their cooperation in fields ranging from energy to fighting COVID, saying budding ties could change the face of a region more synonymous with conflict. “The evolving web of regional cooperation is creating a new narrative, one that is cracking the glass ceiling of…

Aussie antique shop slammed for auctioning Hitler collection

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in Herald Sun, Print

An Australian company auctioning Hitler’s belongings has sparked fury, but the shop owner has defended the sale. An Australian company auctioning off Hitler’s personal items has been slammed by a Melbourne Jewish leader, who fears they will end up in neo-Nazi’s hands. Anti-Defamation Commission Chairman Dr Dvir Ambramovich has called on JB Military Antiques to…

World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of Cardinal Cassidy

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in Online, Other Communities

NEW YORK — The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of Australian Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former President of the Commission for the Religious Relations with the Jews, who died in Newcastle, Australia, at the age of 96. Cardinal Cassidy served for 33 years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See…

Every picture tells a story of horror from the Nazis’ death camp

Apr 16, 2021

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

The words “based on a true story” usually ring alarm bells, and when the true story is that of an Auschwitz prisoner who spent almost five years taking thousands of photographs of fellow inmates, the bells ring a little louder than usual. It’s hard to imagine a more confronting chapter of human history than the…

Yes Philip Roth was morally flawed, but his work was also liberating

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

Few novels left me as breathless and, as we might say on the shrink’s couch, as conflicted as Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. I first read it in my mid-to-late teens, the time when we suddenly become conscious of who we are. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors in suburban Caulfield, I was starting to ask myself if I…

Europe warns Iran over uranium purity move

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in Print, The Canberra Times

The European countries party to the Iran nuclear deal have told Tehran its decision to enrich uranium at 60 per cent purity, bringing the fissile material closer to bomb-grade, was contrary to efforts to revive the 2015 accord. And in an apparent signal to Iran’s arch-adversary Israel, which Tehran blamed for an explosion at its…

Jetset founder Isi Leibler never backed down from a fight

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in Print, The Australian

Isi Leibler, born Belgium, October 9, 1934. Died Jerusalem, April 13, 2021, aged 86. Isi Leibler’s lively mind thought in monochrome. It saw the world in the black and white of binary truths. Things were either good, or bad. Like people. And Leibler was a god-fearing Jew who feared no one else. He understood the plight…

Attack on Iranian facility could derail talks to restart nuclear deal

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