פֿון שׂרה זילבערמאַן
Adass Israel School and former principal, Malka Leifer, ordered to pay $1.2 million to survivor of sex abuse; more than 100 Jews from Lodz and their descendents commemorate the day of the Lodz Ghetto liquidationRead More
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New musical CD of Yiddish song; the second to last Schindler Jew in Australia dies at 94; the Shir Madness Festival in Melbourne attracts 1.600 visitors.Read More
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The chief rabbi of the Melbourne Chabad Yeshiva Center resigns; a group of Jews, former Shanghai residents, meet at the opening of an exhibit about life in the Shanghai ghetto.Read More
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Actress and singer, Sonia Lizerson, dies at 96; 150 books and documents of the first years of the Australian Jewish community are auctioned off in Jerusalem.Read More
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The state government may increase financing for the Melbourne Holocaust Center; the synagogue, Spiritgrow, won’t charge a fee for seats on the High Holy Days.Read More
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In 1925, two Jewish cricket teams from Melbourne and Sydney laid the foundation of the Jewish sports club Maccabi Australia. At the annual reunion in Melbourne, the Dunera Boys and their families commemorated their rescue from the Nazis on the ship that carried 2,036 Jews.Read More
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A children’s contest for the best Rosh Hashanah card; the murderer of a Jewish judge is found 53 years later; a Jewish statesman becomes a minister in the state of Victoria.Read More
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A new exhibit about Anne Frank and her family; a resolution on the Middle East is passed by the Labor Party.Read More
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Keshet Australia applies to become a member of the Jewish community; football player Jarryd Hayne apologizes for his anti-Semitic comment.Read More
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A lecturer in Jewish studies at Monash University is ordained as a rabba; the Orthodox Board of Rabbis in Victoria emphasizes support for the Biblical definition of marriage.
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Bobbi-Getzoff Zylberman was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1957, the child of immigrants. She graduated from the Sholem-Aleichem Folk Shuln and the United Mittleshul High School. She received an undergraduate degree in Yiddish from Queens College, a NY state university, and a master‘s degree in Yiddish literature from Columbia University. Since 1974, she teaches Yiddish to children and adults in Melbourne Australia. She participates in the Yiddish radio programs in New York and Melbourne since the mid-1970s.Read More
שׂרה געצאָף־זילבערמאַן איז געבוירן געוואָרן אין בראָנקס, ניו־יאָרק, אין 1957 בײַ קינדער פֿון אימיגראַנטן. גראַדואַנטקע פֿון די שלום־עליכם פֿאָלקסשולן און דער פֿאַראייניקטער מיטלשול אין איינעם מיט די אַרבעטער־רינג שולן. שפּעטער האָט זי באַקומען אַ ביז־גראַדויִר־דיפּלאָם אין ייִדיש בײַם קווינס־קאָלעדזש (שטאָטישער אוניווערסיטעט פֿון ניו־יאָרק) און אַ מאַגיסטער אין ייִדישער ליטעראַטור בײַם קאָלומביע־אוניווערסיטעט. לערנט ייִדיש מיט קינדער און דערוואַקסענע זינט 1974 און וווינט אין מעלבורן, אויסטראַליע. זי האָט אָנטייל גענומען אין ייִדישע ראַדיאָ־אוידיציעס אין ניו־יאָרק און מעלבורן זינט די מיט־1970ער יאָרן.Read More