Alex Dafner with the latest news in Yiddish 28.10.2018

Kerryn Phelps, the likely winner of the by-election in Wentworth, Sydney, will if confirmed, become the first Jewish woman to ever serve in the Australian Parliament. Jewish victims and survivors of child sexual abuse were amongst the hundreds of like Australians who attended the national apology by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and leader of the opposition Bill Shorten, in the Australian Parliament last Monday. A Dutch tribunal will decide next week whether to release the names of Holocaust-era war criminals, whose identity is currently shielded by privacy laws, a move which researchers and Nazi hunters say may be the last chance to identify and punish war criminals who may still be alive. The Argentinian Jewish umbrella body the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations or DAIA, revealed excerpt from tens of thousands of documents about WWII that shed light on the Nazi influence on the country and the Nazi war criminals who were helped to escape and hide in Argentina after the war.

Source: SBS