The Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Commemorations took place in Melbourne and in Sydney on 7th April, SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner

SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner 11.4.2021 The Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Commemorations took place live and via the internet in Melbourne and in Sydney on the 7th April, 2021, with moving testimonies delivered by several Holocaust survivors in Melbourne and the marking of the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and subsequent mass murders of Jews there, the theme of the Sydney commemoration. Australian Jews continued their debate about the change in the status of the Labor Party’s resolution passed at their annual conference, concerning a future Labor Government’s recognition of a Palestinian State. Recently freed from an Iranian jail, Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, clarified the comments she made in an interview in The Australian newspaper, in which she denied being a fervent Zionist and other misconceptions of which she was being accused of in the social media. The Victorian Police will investigate a bizarre threat by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network of Australia, calling on non-Jewish, Aryan men to engage in group sex with Jewish women in a bid to “breed out the Jewish race” and a personal threat against the Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dvir Abramovich The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has elected Daniel Aghion, an esteemed barrister as its new President, following a period of upheaval in the council, and an executive in the NSW Government, Darren Bark will take over the CEO position at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, from the long serving community stalwart Vic Alhadeff, in mid May 2021.

Source: SBS