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THE scale of the death and destruction must never, ever be forgotten, an emotional Josh Frydenberg said this week as he announced that the Morrison government is providing $2 million towards the establishment of a Tasmanian Holocaust Education and Interpretation Centre. Speaking on Tuesday at Hobart Synagogue, Australias oldest shule, Frydenberg noted, If there was a minutes silence observed for every Jewish life that was lost in the Holocaust it would go for 11 years. The Treasurer said the new centre which will allow Tasmanian students, teachers and the wider community to better understand the Shoah and its impact on our world will also serve as a warning that such atrocities can still take place
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admin | March 7, 2021
Every so often, its useful to recall the immortal words of novelist William Faulkner: The past is never dead.
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admin | March 7, 2021
Sandra Scheller had poured so much of herself, her parents and her Jewish community into the Holocaust remembrance exhibit shed been working on for 2020 that when the COVID-19 pandemic put it on hold, she was devastated.
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admin | March 7, 2021
IN just the past few days, a skate park in Sydney has been defaced with a giant swastika and a Nazi flag has been found on sale in the Victorian town of Bendigo.
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admin | March 7, 2021
A version of this essay originally appeared on Alma, 70 Faces Medias feminist Jewish culture site. On Wednesday, the Jewish internet was shocked by a scene from the TV medical drama Nurses. The shocking part should be that a clip from a subpar Canadian medical drama only airing on NBC because of a COVID-induced lack of programming managed to go semiviral.
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admin | March 5, 2021
Shes convinced that there remains a large constituency for a two-state solution, at least in principle. Of course there is a huge majority that does not believe it is achievable, she said. Thats true not only in Israel, and not only on the right.
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admin | March 5, 2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured), following a meeting in Moscow, Russia, March 5, 2020. Photo: Pavel Golovkin / Pool via Reuters. A new report has found that the latest editions of Turkish school textbooks take a strongly negative view of Israel and now describe Jews as infidels.
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admin | March 5, 2021
One of the Happiness Pillars if you believe in creatively enhancing happiness is to never grouch and groan. No one wants to hear.
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admin | March 5, 2021
The United Kingdoms Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and Bristol Jewish Society (J-Soc) have accused Bristol University of an absolute failure of their duty of care after the school refused to condemn the anti-Semitic conduct of a sociology professor. In a statement released on Wednesday, UJS and Bristol J-Soc said their representatives had a virtual meeting with the universitys senior management a day earlier so that the school could present a set of action points they will be taking against sociology professor David Miller.
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admin | March 5, 2021
Contents The word Holocaust, from the Greek words holos (whole) and kaustos (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews (as well as millions of others, including Romani people, theintellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945
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