Alex Dafner with his weekly Yiddish Report for SBS 14.1.2018

A unique SBS report in Yiddish, covering the latest in the Jewish community around Australia with Alex Dafner...The first legally recognized Jewish gay wedding in Australia, of the well-known lesbian couple Jackie Stricker-Phelps and Dr Kerryn Phelps, took place at the Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney, officiated by the Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, last week Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Tim Fisher has urged the public and politicians to make special efforts to try to realize his long running campaign of posthumously rising the rank of the great Jewish Australian General Sir John Monash eh, to that of Field Marshall. The director of the Australian War Memorial Dr Brendan Nelson, will be the key speaker at the Melbourne International Holocaust Day commemoration, at the Glen Eira Town Hall, in Caulfield on Sunday the 28th January 2018.

Yiddish Proverb Source: SBS