Alex Dafner Yiddish report:Australia's “disappointment” over US decision to leave UN’s Human Rights Council 24.6.18

Australia expressed “disappointment” over the US decision to leave the UN’s Human Rights Council, and although they share their concern over the Councils consistent anti-Israel bias, Australia is determined to work to make it more effective and to bring about meaningful reform to the UNHRC. The new incitement legislation, has passed the Legislative Assembly of NSW which will replace the ineffective Section 20D of the Anti-Discrimination Act, and the NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman paid tribute to the Jewish community in particular, for their efforts to enable this. The former chief Rabbi of the Adass-Israel Ultra-Orthodox community in Melbourne, Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Beck z”l, has died in Israel at the age of 85, only two weeks after flying there, following his 30 year tenure as the head of that community, a tenure which, over the past 10 years was marred by the Malka Leifer scandal of sexual abuse of female students in the local Adass-Israel school. Anns: Beautiful As The Moon, Radiant As The Stars: The Jewish Woman (Part of the 2018 Glen Eira Storytelling Festival) Sunday June 24 at 5pm, At the Kadimah, 7 Selwyn St., Elsterwick, Vic. Tickets: $15/$10 Kadimah members & Concession: Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/VEGV Trailblazing Jewish women of literature - from heroines, pioneers and writers to ordinary wives and mothers of their time - will be celebrated in a glorious afternoon of readings and music in English with a touch of Yiddish. Real and fictional women will be brought to life by a fabulous cast of some of Melbourne’s favourite performers and scholars including Evelyn Krape, Danielle Charak, Galit Klas, Tomi Kalinski, Freydi Mrocki and Elana Forbes. Narrated by Isaac Apel and directed by Anna Epstein, this will be a literary event for audiences of all ages, both Yiddish and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Yiddish Proverb Source: SBS