Three men appeared in court in New Zealand and were charged with damaging more than 20 Jewish gravestones in an historic cemetery last week. The men, aged between 19 and 23, were charged with willful damage of the graves in Auckland, some of which date back to the 1880s. The vandalism included spray painting swastikas…
Unidentified vandals defaced headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Auckland, New Zealand, with swastikas, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti. More than 20 graves, all more than 125 years old, were vandalized with black spray-paint between Thursday night and Friday morning, according to the New Zeland Herald. Fourteen headstones had large black swastikas sprayed on them. Another…
For one Jewish family in New Zealand, August began with one daughter competing in the summer Olympic Games and winning a gold medal. It draws to a close with a second daughter celebrating the bat mitzvah many feared she would not live to attend. To say the least, it has been an emotional time for…
Jo Aleh, the New Zealand Jewish Olympian who won gold in the sailing regatta, said part of her medal “belongs to Israel.” Aleh, the New Zealand-born daughter of dual Israeli and Kiwi citizens Shuki Shukrun and Daniella Aleh, clinched gold last week in the women’s 470 sailing event with her partner Olivia “Polly” Powrie. Her…
New Zealand Jewish sailor Jo Aleh and her partner Polly Powrie won the gold medal in the women’s 470 regatta. Aleh, 26, whose parents are dual Israeli-New Zealand citizens, skippered the pair into the lead from the start of the gold medal race Friday at the London Olympic games. The Kiwis were tied with British…
New Zealand sailor Jo Aleh is poised to win her first Olympic medal as her event heads into its final stretch. Aleh, whose parents Shuki and Daniella Aleh lived in Israel before moving to Auckland, is in second position with her teammate Olivia Powrie after six of 10 races in the 470 event. The Kiwis…
Jo Aleh, a 26-year-old from New Zealand, will be competing in the 2012 Olympics in the women’s 470 sailing competition. Aleh, whose parents, Shuki and Daniella Aleh, lived in Israel before moving to her native Auckland, will be sailing with teammate Olivia ‘Polly’ Powrie in their vessel, Muppet. Aleh came in seventh in the 2008…
A new documentary film is telling the story of the unfruitful efforts to bring Nazi war criminals in New Zealand to justice. According to Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, “New Zealand was the only Anglo-Saxon democracy that faced this problem and chose to ignore it. There was absolutely no political will to…
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