Author: Jmedia Manager
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Israeli archaeologists discover large 5000-year-old city
Harish, Israel: Israel’s Antiquities Authority on Sunday said that researchers have discovered the remains of a large, 5000-year-old city that sheds new light on experts’ understanding of the period. Calling it a “cosmopolitan and planned city,” the authority said the early Bronze Age settlement covered 65 hectares and was home to about 6000 people. “In this…
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Racist bullying incidents are a call to action
The reverberations from media reports that two Melbourne students were subjected to humiliating anti-Semitic abuse have been felt in Jewish communities around the world. How could this happen in an enlightened society, ask well-meaning people. A search for locally-produced school resources dedicated to bullying generally, and racism in schools specifically, shows there are reams of…
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‘Tsunami of hate’: Even a Holocaust survivor isn’t immune to rising tide of anti-Semitic abuse
A Holocaust survivor has told of the “astonishing” moment a Sydney man jumped out of his car and yelled “not enough of your people have been burned in the oven”. The 83-year-old Ernie Friedlander had driven his car into a parking space on a Sydney side street when a man who was also vying for the…
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Antisemitism in Victorian schools is a monumental and hidden crisis
A 12-year-old Jewish boy from Cheltenham Secondary College is lured to a park and threatened with gang violence unless he kisses the feet of a Muslim boy who films this evil ritual. Later, the young man is beaten up so badly that he loses consciousness and is hospitalised. A 5-year-old Jewish kid at Hawthorn West…
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Benjamin Netanyahu swinging between bravado and desperation, trying to avoid corruption charges
Will Benjamin Netanyahu wriggle out from under the clutch of serious corruption charges that have been hanging over his Prime Ministership in Israel? Will he even continue to be the Prime Minister is another question, because after a second national election in recent weeks, the country is politically deadlocked and so far, Netanyahu has been…
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Judge says alleged child abuser Malka Leifer ‘will flee again’ if released from custody
Former Melbourne teacher Malka Leifer, who is wanted in Australia over 74 child abuse charges, will remain in jail after a judge raised fears she may flee Israel. The Jerusalem Supreme Court reserved its decision on an appeal against an earlier ruling to grant Leifer bail to her sister’s home in Bnei Brak, east of…
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Jewish boy forced to kiss the feet of Muslim classmate
Victoria’s Education Minister James Merlino has ordered an immediate review after a 12-year-old Jewish boy was forced to kiss the feet of a Muslim student in Melbourne. The Australian Jewish News revealed the boy was lured to the park where he was threatened with violence by nine other classmates if he refused to bow down and kiss the feet…
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Holocaust survivor who embraced Australian beach life
The passing of Esther Fiszman at age 89 severs a link to our past. Fiszman was a living witness to both humanity’s darkest hours and its warmest moments with Australia openly welcoming distraught European migrants following World War II to build a new life. Fiszman (nee Koplowicz) was born in Poland on January 19, 1930…
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Josh Frydenberg calls for better education on Holocaust
Josh Frydenberg has called for Australians to be better educated about the Holocaust after reports of two apparently anti-Semitic events in which a 12-year-old was forced to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate and a five-year-old was allegedly named a “Jewish cockroach”. The Treasurer said he was deeply concerned anti-Semitism was creeping into schools…
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Gays, lesbians, communists, unionists. Anyone we forgot on Holocaust Day?
Why be surprised? Of course a fashionable student union would not mention that the Holocaust targeted Jews. Sure, gypsies, trade union officials, socialists, communists, pacifists, prostitutes, blacks, gays, lesbians and even “non-Jewish Poles”. But Jews? Is London’s University College Union really to mention them, too? The University College Union (UCU) has apologised after it left…