When we reflect on 2017, it was a big anniversary year for Israel. It has been 50 years since the Six Day War, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, 70 years since the United Nations voted in favor of partitioning Palestine to create two states, and an official Jewish Homeland. 100 years since…
Don't miss our weekly Jerusalem report, for the latest from Israel, with SBS correspondent, Peta Jones Pellach
Israel's most famous author, Amos Oz, died at 79. Award-winning writer achieved international recognition for such novels as 'A Tale of Love and Darkness' and 'Black Box'; daughter mourns him as ' a wonderful family man, an author, a man of peace and moderation.'
47 years ago, on the 6th October 1973 the surprise attack on Israel, took place, when Egyptian tanks crossed the Suez Canal Israel didn’t expect it and the country was in a shock, with a sense of failure, loss of trust and no hope on the horizon. It is interesting to look back 47 years and examine…
Israel held world’s first drill to test readiness for new Covid variant (English) with Nitza Lowenstein....Find out the latest about Coronavirus and Vaccination...
Don't miss our weekly informative and unique Jerusalem report. Find out about the death of Israeli National Poet Chim Gouri and much more...
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died. Listen to an interview from 1988 with Nitza that is still relevant today!
"Some Rabbis have lost their right to serve our community." Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton, Australia's most senior Orthodox Rabbi, has condemned the behaviour of certain community leaders in an interview with SBS Radio.
Chaim Topol, Fiddler on the Roof SBS 2005 interview in Hebrew, with Nitza Lowenstein. A special tribute to Chaim Topol who died on 8 March 2023 at 87
Alex Ryvchin spoke to Nitza Lowenstein to mark 80 years since the terrible massacre at Babi Yar, near Kiev Ukraine during WW2. Ryvchin is the Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Over just two days in 1941 more than 33,000 Jews were shot to death at Babi Yar. Alex Ryvchin…
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