Yiddish

The Premier Minister Julia Gillard announced her Labor Government's new approach to school funding in Australia, based on equal funding for students in state or private schools. This is good news for amongst others Jewish schools, which are becom...

We speak with writer, editor Arnold Zable about the new special edition of the "Melbourne Chronicle"-"Melburner Bletter", bilingual English-Yiddish journal, published in honour of the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Cultural Centre and National Li...

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

The debate over the issue of asylum seekers and refugees reignited dramatically in the Australian Parliament, the Jewish community and the broader community last week. Alex Dafner presents this summary of the debate produced by Amanda Cavill, And...

We summarise how the Jewish Olympians performed at the London Olympics and the controversy around the commemoration of the 11 Israeli Olympians and trainers murdered at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago.

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Psychoanalyst and Paediatrician, Dr Wilk Wolkowicz in Paris, about his professional career, his family background and his survival during WWII.  

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

We honor the memory of the Yiddish Soviet poets, writers, artists and intellectuals murdered by the Stalin regime on the 12th August 1952, exactly 60 years ago today.

The Olympics, which opened with great ceremony and parades in London on the 27th July, 2012, is as in previous years an event for which Jews have mixed feelings, pride and regret. Alex Dafner presents this glance at the mixed history of Jews at ...

The Yiddish music and culture festival Yiddish Summer Weimar, in the city of Weimar, Germany began 4 days ago and will continue over the next 4 weeks until the 21st August. One of the organisers of the month long Yiddish festival is the German Yi...

We honour the legendary, martyred Polish-Jewish, Paediatrician, writer, broadcaster and children's rights advocate, Dr Janusz Korczak, e"h, on this his birth anniversary and 70 years after his murder in Tremblinka Concentration Camp.

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Beni Warshawsky in Los Angeles about his father's survival during the Holocaust, about searching for his rescuer, a French Jewish soldier and about how the terrible stories of the period can be passe...

It's been awhile since such loud and colourful anti-uranium, anti-nuclear protests have taken place in Australia, as those which occurred at the Olympic Dam in the desert north of South Australia last week. The protests also include an element of...

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.