(Haaretz) — In one of the farthest corners of the Diaspora, Zionism has fallen “out of fashion” to the detriment of the “struggling” Jewish community. That’s the verdict of community elder David Zwartz, 77, a former president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, former honorary Israeli consul and the only Jewish Kiwi to receive the…
Boy aims toy gun at wreckage of a Baghdad car bombing, one of 9 across Iraq that killed 14 on March 5. And that wasn’t Iraq’s worst day in March. / Getty Images Mission Accomplished: Just in time for the 11th anniversary of America’s war to liberate Iraq, a leading global business consulting firm comes…
The United Nations marked today, November 19, as the first-ever World Toilet Day. The event was organized by the government of Singapore. It is a subject that quickly invites jokes, as near every news report on the event has seen fit to emphasize. The New Zealand ambassador, who is speaking right now on U.N. TV…
Jewish students in the New Zealand coastal city of Dunedin condemned a sale of Nazi memorabilia, calling it a “slap in the face” to the local and national Jewish community. “The decision to run this auction shows a lack of taste and sensitivity to those who lived through these atrocities and their families,” Ben Isaacs,…
New Zealand’s prime minister, whose Jewish mother escaped Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, launched an exhibition to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. John Key officially opened “Shadows of the Shoah” in Auckland Jan. 25 in front of Holocaust survivors and Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand, Shemi Tzur. Key, who rarely talks about his…
A New Zealand teen who pleaded guilty to desecrating a Jewish cemetery in Auckland last year was offered assistance by the Jewish community. Robert Moulden, 19, who was among the vandals who painted swastikas and anti-Israel expletives on historic headstones in Auckland’s Symonds St. Cemetery last October, will be sentenced next month. A second man,…
The only Jewish day school in New Zealand’s capital city closed after 25 years in operation. Moriah School in Wellington held its last graduation on Dec. 7, citing a lack of resources. In August, the board said it had “no option” but to close the school, which had less than 20 pupils aged between five…
Police in New Zealand say charges will be dropped against one of the three men arrested in last month’s attack on an historic Jewish cemetery. Auckland police released a short statement Monday, saying the charge of willful damage against 23-year-old Nathan Symington will be withdrawn as there was “insufficient evidence to carry a robust prosecution.”…
אַ דאַנק דער אָרגאַניזאַציע „בראַמאַ גראָדסקאַ“ קען מען זען מער ווי 2,700 גלעזערנע נעגאַטיוון פֿון פֿאָטאָגראַפֿיעס צווישן 1914 און 1939
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