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Adam-Green

British pros coach Israelis in tolerance

ITZIK Shanan and Abbas Suan watched last week as 100,000 English soccer fans at London’s Wembley Stadium sang along to an operatic rendition of Abide With Me, a Christian hymn that has become something of a soccer anthem.

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NSW leaders unite against hate

PREMIER Barry O’Farrell and Opposition Leader John Robertson have cast party politics to the side, when they signed the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. The historic ceremony took place

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Mac Vic honours top sports stars, volunteers

MACCABI Victoria honoured the best Jewish sport stars in the state on Sunday night, with Victorian netballer Joel Gocs and Melbourne Victory gun Ashley Brown taking out the

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Homesh ruling a blow for settlers

Israel’s legal establishment has shattered a settler dream, announcing that a settlement evacuated eight years ago will be returned to its Palestinian owners. When Israel pulled out of Gaza

Peter Slezak

Limmud-Oz may pull pro-BDS speaker

THE Limmud-Oz board was this week considering pulling a planned session with outspoken Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigner Dr Peter Slezak from the three-day education festival in

Rabbi Dovid Freilich

Rabbi misquoted on abuse cover-up

THE Australian is expected to apologise this weekend after it claimed that former president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA) Rabbi Dovid Freilich said that 95

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Al Dura affair: ‘a modern blood libel’

The Israeli military didn’t fire at or kill the 12-year-old who became a symbol of the Second Intifada, Jerusalem has concluded. According to a report by France 2, Israeli

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Sharp focus on photographers

FROM poignant family histories and the plight of albinos in Africa to chronicling a dangerous Antarctic anti-whaling protest ... these are some of the subjects by Jewish photographers

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Winning moves for Chess

CHESS, the musical staged last year by Jeanne Pratt’s Production Company, has won seven Green Room awards, including the coveted award for Outstanding Musical Production. Director Gale Edwards’ production

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Olympic hero to inspire Aussies

IT’S been a week of coups for the Australian delegation heading to the 19th Maccabiah Games in Israel in July, announcing wheelchair tennis star Adam Kellerman as the

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