Alex reports in Yiddish: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will again meet with representatives from the Yeshivas in Melbourne and Sydney, to hear how they have instituted changes and responses to their report and recommendations.The Tzedek group supporting Jewish victims of child sexual abuse will hold a Night of Healing session, in Melbourne to give community support and to encourage those who have not yet sought help to come forward.The campaign to posthumously promote General Sir John Monash to the rank of Field Marshal, which Tim Fisher and others believe was denied him because of his Prussian-Polish Jewish immigrant background, continued its efforts with a special session in the Parliament of NSW on the 8th March.The Courage to Care travelling exhibition and education project, about Holocaust and other genocides and atrocities rescuers, will take its revamped, technologically updated exhibition to Bendigo in Central Victoria, to continue this important work, which has so far reached more than 100 thousand students in that state alone.Anns: 1. The Kadimah and SKIF are presenting the IN ONE VOICE Street Culture Festival, today, Sunday March 19th: From bagels to the Bashevis Singers, the In One Voice Jewish street festival once again presents Jewish culture at its finest. Produced by the Kadimah and SKIF, this years FREE festival features an outstanding concert line-up starring Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, Klezmania, the brand-new big band YID!, the Bashevis Singers and US klezmer duo The Unternationale most famous for penning the Yiddish version of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah. Also on offer are an art exhibition, craft stalls, community stalls, a bagel-eating competition, cooking demonstrations, a cake competition and kids zone. For more details see the Kadimah Website at: www.kadimah.org.au 2. An evening with Psoy Krolenko (in Russian). Welcoming our Russian language neighbours, pls join renowned scholar and musician Psoy Korolenko, as he accompanies the Soviet silent film "Bed and Sofa" with his unique style of free style poetry and musical accompaniment. (A look at sex and sexuality in the Soviet era). 20 March at 7PM $10 at 281 Hawthorn Road Caulfield.And, March 22nd Doors open at 6pm. Show begins at 8PM, The Unternationale performance with Daniel Kahn (Canada) and Psoy Krolenko (USA-Russia), together they bring traditions of Yiddish and Russian popular/urban folk song as well as theatre songs with elements of rap and free style poetry.Bookings essential. For details go to www.flyingsaucerclub.com.au . Only a few seats are left.
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