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The Perth Jewish community joined with Jewish communities around the world on Sunday night in remembering the lives of those lost in war and terror in Israel.

Our community identifies easily with the bereaved families in Israel. We see our own faces reflected in their faces and our families reflected in their families. For some in our community, it is more than just being able to identify; Yom Hazikaron takes on a personal note.

For those in Perth who have lost loved ones, it is an especially solemn occasion. The sense of community among those who join them in mourning and remembering gives some comfort.

The ceremony was hosted by the State Zionist Council WA. Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Australia, Meir Itzhaki, gave a moving speech on the

pride we take as Jews that, still in the shadow of the Holocaust, we are now able to defend ourselves. He pointed out that this independence has come at a great cost.

Ori Demb, Executive Director of UIA WA, told of his own personal tragedy in losing a cousin and two best friends in military operations. There was not a dry eye in the house after listening to his account of his strong bonds with these young men and seeing a short video account of the lifelong burden carried by the family of his dear friend Ilan.

The Master of Ceremonies, Leon Schneider, led a truly memorable evening, opening with a poem by the famous Israeli poet Natan Alterman. The rabbis of our community led prayers and the youth groups lit candles in memory of those fallen in battle.

Ori also spoke briefly of what it feels like to be in Israel on Yom Hazikaron. There is a quiet sadness on this day as people remember loved ones who died too soon in order to keep our people safe. It is a high price. We can only continue to pray for peace.

After the sombre atmosphere of Yom Hazikaron, it is always a pleasure to leap enthusiastically into Yom Ha’atzmaut.

The community was treated to a fantastic concert by professional musician and The Voice finalist, Ben Goldstein. The hall was filled with ruach as audience members danced and waved Israeli flags to the music.

The indoor entertainment opened with addresses from State Zionist Council WA President Jeffery Lin, Maccabi WA President Alan Shear and Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Australia, Meir Itzhaki. Master of Ceremonies, Russell Woolf created a festive and lighthearted atmosphere. He fondly remembered his own time on Machon during the 1980s as the audience was treated to video greetings from the Perth participants on Israel programs.

The music-filled evening began with a wonderful performance in the amphitheatre by ‘The Sounds of Israel’ and was followed by the main act – Ben Goldstein – in the Sylvia and Harry Hoffman Hall. Mickey Shaked then took over, encouraging the young and young at heart to continue dancing.

During the evening the speakers pointed out that we cannot afford to take Israel for granted. Israel continues to be vilified and victimised within the international community.

Meir Itzhaki noted that Israel is the only country in the UN whose very existence is constantly threatened and questioned. He emphasised the importance of Jewish community support for Israel.

For this reason it is vital to continue to support events like this in our community, fostering the unique relationship between Israel and the Jewish diaspora. Navit Shchigel

REMEMBRANCE... Yom Hazikaron

…and Celebration Yom Ha’atzmaut

AUJS candle lighting MC Leon SchneiderOri Demb,

Executive Director UIA WA

Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Australia, Meir Itzhaki

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Julie K shines for WAPhotographer Julie Kerbel has been selected as WA’s Canon Shine Ambassador. The project involves three celebrity photographers – Guy Sebastian, Steve Waugh and Lisa Wilkinson – along with a few photographers from around the country, chosen to shine a light on something that matters to them. One of Julie’s images is currently featured in the window at Camera Electronics in Stirling Street, Perth and will also be seen on bus shelters very soon.

Happy 90th birthday RichardMazeltov to Richard Farago who recently celebrated his 90th birthday together with family and friends at a fabulous afternoon tea. Richard attributes reaching this milestone to leading a very active life.

ACROSS10. What birthday has the person

who creates the crossword puzzle for The Maccabean each week just celebrated?

Happy 90th, Colin!Mazeltov to Colin Shur who celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday, 4 May together with his family!

N I N E T Y !

Yom Ha’atzmaut

Photo op with Ben Goldstein for Josh, Eli and Kovi Leib

Zoe, Jade, Debbie and Errol Katz

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From the EditorDebbie Myerson

My Dad turned 90 last Sunday.

(Happy Birthday Dad, we love you!)

That’s an impressive age but not that uncommon these days. There are quite a number of nonagenarians in town, playing an important role in family and community life.

With a love of words, language and an incredible memory for literary fact, my Dad, Colin Shur, creates the crossword puzzle for the Macc each week, and has done so for the past 15 years.

Leon Zeitlin (96) and Ossie Toffler (still a mere octogenarian) have both been members of the Maccabean committee since it became a weekly publication in 1972 and they will be guests of honour at a special event later this month to recognise their outstanding contribution.

Of course, there’s that seasoned nonagenarian Rabbi Dr Shalom Coleman – the honorary Rabbi of the Maurice Zeffert Home Shul – which I try to get to on the first Friday of each month to enjoy the choral work of Anthony Gordon, Brian Nathanson and the Perth Jewish Male Choir.

Rabbi Coleman, at 95, delivers, without fail, a powerful, meaningful drosha that always manages to connect Torah interpretation with significant current events.

With the official retirement age a moving target, we might be forced to keep working longer than we choose, but what these octo- and nonagenarians exemplify is that you don’t have to be still earning a living to be adding real value.

The tragic history of the two-state solution Jeffrey GoldbergOver time I’ve noticed that Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama often neglect to mention a true, and relevant, fact about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East: The Israelis pursued a two-state solution even before there was an Israel. The Palestinians, and their Arab advocates, have rejected each previous attempt to bring about such a solution.

The Palestinians, and their appointed (or unappointed) Arab representatives, have passed up numerous opportunities over an almost 80-year period to divide Palestine among its two native peoples, Arabs and Jews. The Israelis have repeatedly sought territorial accommodation.

It would be useful for American diplomats, and others, to acknowledge this history when they speak about current Israeli recalcitrance. It would also be smart to take into account this history when offering predictions about the future of the two-state solution. Bloomberg

Letters to the EditorOur Youth!Last Sunday evening I attended a Dinner-Dance (Dress: Formal) for the benefit of the MZH residents. With flowers, lighting, Chinese lanterns and beautifully decorated dinner tables, the MZH main hall was transformed!

Guests, attractively dressed, each received a red rose and participated by way of dancing, answering quiz questions and enjoying the meal. The atmosphere was happy and lebedik. Residents had their own partners/hosts who engaged them in conversation, saw to their needs and danced with them.

This event was initiated by the Perth Jewish youth and, although about 50 of them planned the event, about 30 of them, aged between 17 and 24 attended, sitting next to their ‘dates’ for the evening. They were the partners/hosts and performed their function graciously and with good hearts. This was a collaborative event with MZH staff very much in attendance, too. It was nice to see them dressed up for the occasion and also enjoying themselves. And, of course, the generous and delicious 2-course meal was provided by the MZH kitchen.

It was our Youth, driven by all that is good in the mitzvoth we are expected to perform, who were so involved, mindful of the aged members in the Jewish community, who put this event into effect with outcomes that gave the residents happiness on many planes.

With such people coming up behind the older leaders in the community, we can anticipate that the community will, generally, continue to be well looked after in the future.

Well done to all concerned! Asher Shapiro

Gratitude to Martin Moen for his Yom HaShoah addressA short note to express my admiration and gratitude for the outstanding presentation Martin delivered at the Holocaust Memorial event.

I found his presentation to be both extremely informative and deeply moving. The episode must have been both emotional and uplifting for his family and all of those involved.

It is sometimes difficult to strike the right balance between the detail of these historical events and the message to be conveyed and the

emotion involved. However, I thought he did this perfectly. It was indeed a great tribute to his late mother and to all of the courageous people who helped her survive.

Martin has done a true mitzvah in drawing attention to his mother’s plight and the extraordinary bravery, kindness and humanity of those who helped her as well as the important work of the State of Israel in giving gratitude and recognition to these outstanding people.

I hope that the legacy of courage and humanity that Erica Moen and all of those who helped her have left behind continues to inspire their family for many years to come. Marcus Solomon

In brief...

Celebrating Israel @ 66 Photos Kim Berelowitz

Festive Israeli dancing Ben Goldstein and his boysRebecca Brest

The Sound of Israel Natalia Berelowitz and Susan Schraibman

Estelle and Alan Shear with Heather Kur and Russell Woolf

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European Rabbis condemn Egypt for mass death sentenceHundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood sentenced to death by an Egyptian court received a show of support from an unexpected corner when one of Europe’s oldest Jewish organisations issued a statement condemning their “brief, tokenistic trial.”

European Jewry has often been at odds with the continent’s growing Muslim immigrant population. The Muslim Brotherhood is well known for its anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views.

An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Islamic organisation and 682 supporters to death, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests and political violence ahead of an election this month.

In a statement sent to the press, the Conference of European Rabbis declared that “just as religious leaders have a collective responsibility to speak out against the strain of political and religious extremism often epitomised by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so too, we must speak out when human life is treated with such astonishing contempt.”

“Every human being, no matter what their crime, should have the right to a fair trial and the nonchalance with which this mass death sentence has been handed down should unite world leaders in condemnation,” the Jewish organisation asserted.

Brotherhood leaders have made extreme statements about Jews and Israel, going so far as to say that the “existence of a state for Jews is against all rules of states all over the world,” that they “pray to see Israel is wiped off the map” and that “the Jews are in the habit of taking over the media.” JPost

Hungarian police remove Holocaust survivors from monument protestPolice in Hungary forcibly removed 20 sitting-down protesters, including several Holocaust survivors, from the site of a planned World War II monument that many Jews say glosses over Budapest’s role in the Holocaust.

“If the government really wants to build it, and it seems they do, then the most we can do is somehow delay its construction,” protest organiser Gabor Popper said.

Hungary’s largest Jewish organisation, Mazsihisz, has criticised Prime Minister Viktor Orban for breaking a pledge to discuss the monument with them.

The government says the structure – which will depict Hungary as an angel being attacked by a German eagle – will commemorate all the victims of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. But several Jewish organisations and historians say the memorial absolves Hungarians of their active role in carrying out the deportations of Jews to Nazi death camps. About 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust, almost all after the German occupation began on 19 March 1944.

Protesters have been trying to block construction since work began on 8 April, two days after Orban won a second, landslide election as prime minister. Algemeiner

Presidents’ Conference rejects J Street’s membership bid

J Street has failed to gain admission to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations.

“This is a sad day for us, but also for the American Jewish community and for a venerable institution that has chosen to bar the door to the communal tent to an organisation that represents a substantial segment of Jewish opinion on Israel,” J Street said in a statement.

A number of leading Jewish groups had come out in favour of the dovish Middle East policy group’s entry into the Jewish community’s foreign policy umbrella, including the Anti-Defamation League, arms of the Reform and Conservative movements and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the community’s domestic policy umbrella.

These groups had argued that the Presidents’ Conference needed to include what they say is the community’s diverse opinions on Israel.

The Presidents’ Conference said in a statement issued after the vote that its current membership reflected the community’s diversity.

J Street is a strong critic of the current Israeli government’s policies and backs the Obama administration’s approach toward Iran, which many pro-Israel groups oppose.

Opponents of the membership bid said J Street too often opposes other Jewish groups in the broader public arena and not just within the community. JTA

International

US announces actions to enforce Iran sanctionsThe US government has escalated enforcement of its Iran sanctions, adding eight Chinese companies, a Dubai company and two Dubai-based executives to blacklists for evading American restrictions on Iranian weapons, oil and banking transactions. The announcements signalled the first significant enforcement of American sanctions directed at Iran in three months, and seemed aimed at dispelling what Obama administration officials have called a misimpression that economic relations with Iran are moving toward normalisation.

Despite a temporary accord on Iran’s nuclear program that eased some sanctions, administration officials have emphasised that most restraints on dealings with Iran remain in place. New York Times

Dutch WWII Memorial Day to feature Palestinian ‘Shadow Holocaust’ eventA Dutch Muslim group commemorated “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group held the ceremony on 4 May at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner ‘Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust.’

The event was advertised as a symposium offering “a review of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the passive attitude of the international community.”

4 May is the Netherlands’ official day for Remembrance of the Dead, when commemorations are held for Dutch civilians and members of the armed forces killed by enemy forces in terrorist attacks or in combat. Many of the events are designed to commemorate victims of Nazism, often with an emphasis on Holocaust victims. JTA

Rio de Janeiro gets new eruvThe Jewish community of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has concluded the launch of its first eruv – an area where Orthodox Jews may carry items outside their homes on Shabbat.

The new eruv of Copacabana and Ipanema – two southern neighbourhoods that are famous for their beach scenes – was certified by Kolel Rio, a Jewish religious seminary that was established 12 years ago. Rio de Janeiro has approximately 40,000 Jews. JTA

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Assad concealing chemical capabilityIsraeli intelligence believes the Syrian regime is concealing chemical weapons while misleading the international community. This assessment joins similar ones from intelligence sources in the US and Britain. There has been no evidence that Syria is transferring chemical weapons to Hezbollah, although the Assad regime continues to try to transfer other advanced weapons systems including anti-aircraft missiles and surface-to-sea missiles. Haaretz

Ministry looking to allow Jewish prayer on Temple MountThe Religious Affairs Ministry is crafting new rules that would allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, said Deputy Minister Eli Ben Dahan

The regulations would reverse longstanding orders banning Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. The rules have garnered backlash over the last several months amid a renewed interest in visiting the site by Jewish groups, which has served to stoke heated tensions at the site, holy to both Jews and Muslims.

The Temple Mount compound, which holds the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, is considered the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site to Jews as the site of the two ancient Jewish temples.

By law, under arrangements Israel instituted after capturing the area in 1967, Jews are not allowed to pray at the site. Times of Israel

Bibi proposes law to anchor Israel as nation-state of the Jewish peopleIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his intention to introduce legislation that would establish Israel as a Jewish state.

By doing so, he explained, the hope is to preserve “the national homeland of our people.”

The new Basic Law would respect the rights of non-Jewish minorities living in the country, in accordance with Israel’s Declaration of Independence, said Netanyahu. “The State of Israel will always preserve full personal and civil equality for all citizens of the State of Israel, Jews and non-Jews alike, in a Jewish-democratic state.” But, he emphasised, Israel is and will remain a “nation- state of the Jewish people.”

“Supporting the establishment of a Palestinian national state and opposing the recognition of the Jewish national state undermines the State of Israel’s very right to exist,” he said. WJD

500 soldiers receive medals for donating bone marrowAlong with the medals of honour and valour received by soldiers who go above and beyond the call of duty, 500 soldiers were awarded the new ‘Enlisting for Life’ medal for donating bone marrow that saved someone’s life.

“In the army I protect the country’s civilians, but here I did something different and tangible that helps a specific person and perhaps save his life,” said Sergeant Yaniv Gorodetsky, 21, from Netanya.

The IDF joined forces nine years ago with Ezer Mizion – an Israeli health support organisation.

During Ezer Mizion’s joint gala with the IDF, Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon said, “The willingness to donate is the real glory of the IDF.” Israel Hayom

Israel & Middle East

Israel at 66 is home to 8.18 million peopleOver the past year, the population has grown by about 175,000. About 75 per cent are Jews, 20 per cent are Arab, and just over 4 per cent are non-Arab Christians and people of other religions or no religious affiliation.

When the State of Israel was established in 1948, the population numbered 806,000, and Tel Aviv-Jaffa was the only city with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Times of Israel

Israel greets 16,884 new immigrants in 2013Immigration to Israel increased by 2 per cent in 2013. Of the 16,884 immigrants who arrived last year, 43 per cent came from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia and Ukraine, 17% came from France, 13% from the US and 8% from Ethiopia.

At the end of March the Jewish Agency announced that French immigration had “risen sharply since the start of the year” with 854 French Jews having moved to Israel. This increase marks a 312% increase over the comparable period in 2013.

Anti-Semitic incidents are now “an almost daily phenomenon,” European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said, adding that an increasing number of Jews are seeking an exit from Europe. JPost

Abbas rebuffed bid to find mutually acceptable wording on “Jewish State”Israeli negotiators were willing to work with PA President Mahmoud Abbas during negotiations on the wording of a formula that would have described the Jewish people’s and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination in precisely equivalent terms, and would have also included phrases to guarantee the rights of Israel’s Arab minority.

The Palestinians, however, resolutely refused to accept the very concept of such recognition. Times of Israel

Mashaal: Hamas remains committed to Jihad against IsraelHamas is committed to holy war against Israel, its leader Khaled Mashaal has affirmed.

“Our path is resistance and the rifle, and our choice is jihad,” he said, calling for the “liberation of our lands and holy sites and the return of the Palestinian refugees to their homes.”

An Israeli official in Jerusalem responded that his remarks “expose the myth that Hamas has somehow changed or moderated its positions.” JPost

Iran to break oil export limits for sixth straight monthIran is set to bust through oil sale caps set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) for the sixth straight month. While the JPA permits Iran only 1 million barrels per day (bpd), the Islamic republic will have managed to send abroad an average of 1.1 million bpds of crude exports in April.

Observers are concerned that Western negotiating leverage is steadily eroding as Iran’s economy improves and it reestablishes trade channels to outside markets.

Russia is already in talks with Iran to swap its food and other goods for Iranian oil. The move is seen as a Russian attempt to take positions in Iran’s vast market when it opens up and assert its international clout amid increased Tehran’s tensions with the West. The Tower

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On 27 Nissan, the State of Israel commemorated Yom Hashoah Ugevurah (Holocaust and Heroes Memorial Day). This marked the first of four special commemoration/celebration days in the Zionist calendar. Less than a week later Israel marked Yom Hazikaron (whose full name is ‘Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism’) and then celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day), followed by Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). These days are highly instructive regarding the culture of memory in Israel.

Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron are inescapable events in Israel. One is both surrounded and enveloped by these two memorial days. The radio plays poignant songs of love, loss and yearning, known as Memorial Day Songs. The newspapers are full of emotional stories and articles related to the days.

The TV runs sensitive programming the entire day related to witness accounts and stories of those who fell. Even Israeli MTV has special Memorial Day programming. Movie channels are closed in honour of the fallen. All places of public entertainment are closed. Sirens wail through the land leading the entire country to pause and reflect.

On Yom Hashoah six million live Jews stand in silence here in Israel as the siren’s soul-piercing sound is heard – to honour and remember those who were murdered simply because they were Jews and there was no Jewish State to protect them, or for them to freely go to.

This is the quote from the IAF pilots who flew over Auschwitz on the 60th anniversary of its liberation. Unfortunately, they were 60 years too late to stop the mass murder. However, the highly

symbolic mission carried a powerful message about the times we now live in.

“We, the pilots of the IAF, flying in the skies above this camp of horrors, arose from the ashes of the millions of victims, and shoulder their muted cries, salute their courage and promise to be the shield of the Jewish people and its land – Israel.”

Both sirens are about the way honour of the dead is commemorated in the culture of memory in Israel. The culture of honour is both ritualised and contextualised through behaviour. The sirens are moments of reflection on both enormity of what was lost simply because there was no Jewish State, and the price we pay to keep the Jewish dream alive and to make sure that, “never again” means, “never again.”

We should honour both the dead of the Shoah and those who died defending our homeland by living ethical and moral lives and making the most of our lives. We should be grateful every day for the times we live in where we Jews are in charge of our own destiny in our own land, and be aware of the price paid for this privilege. We indeed live in a time of wonders and miracles.

Memorial Day is a stark reminder that we

did not receive our State on a silver platter and how grateful we are for those young boys and girls who give the best years of their lives, and sometimes their very lives, and are the people who step forward to keep our Zionist dream alive! Times of Israel“I will devote all of my strength, and even sacrifice my life, in the defence of the homeland and the freedom of Israel.” – From the Induction Oath to the IDF

“In the face of the upheavals of the Middle East, we must continue to act with confidence and determination against any challenge that comes to our doorstep. Against any threat, known or new, near or far, the IDF will always be ready to be called upon, ready for the next mission. Our forces in the land, air and sea will continue to always act in light of the legacy left by the fallen in their deaths, a legacy of a sense of mission, and belief in the justice of our path, a legacy of love of the homeland and, guaranteeing its safety,” Gantz wrote.

The directive began with a tribute to Israel’s fallen soldiers. “At this painful time,” the IDF Chief of Staff wrote, “we remember those who gave to this land all that they could give. The fallen of Israel’s wars and those murdered in terrorist attacks accompany us in their image and absence at every step, at every junction that we encounter in life.”

“On this day,” he continued, “when we hear the siren cut through the quiet, Israeli citizens

lower their heads, stop their daily routine, and envision figures in uniform, soldiers passing through together.

“The names we list in our memory paint a figure of the IDF, the people’s army that recruited them, and which recruited us to serve the state of Israel, to take part in the safeguarding of its security. With the dedication and determination they showed, the IDF’s fallen have left us with a path to march down, a decree to live by.”

“The mission of defence passes from one generation to the next. We will guarantee the continuation of our existence as a free people in our land. The whole of the Israeli nation trusts us.” JPost

Gantz delivers Remembrance Day directive to IDF soldiers

We remember23,169 soldiers and 2,495 victims of terror have fallen since 186057 newly fallen since Remembrance Day 201350 disabled IDF veterans have died due to their disabilities17,038 bereaved family members, of which 2,141 are orphans and 4,966 are IDF widows

For whom the siren sounds: The Culture of Memory in Israel Tuvia Book

Yom Hazikaron

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Technology Dishonest Reporting

In recent months, the US Secretary of State and others have warned Israel that unless it rapidly proceeds to establish a full-fledged Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, the sky will come crashing down on the Jewish state.

The doomsday diviners are certain that unless the “two-state solution” is promptly implemented, Israel will atrophy into apartheid and inch into isolation.

Well, guess what, they’re wrong. The wisdom and utility of a two-state settlement aside, its absence is not a catastrophe. Israel will continue to prosper and achieve, despite long-term lingering conflict with the Palestinians and notwithstanding the apocalyptic agonising of well-meaning friends like John Kerry.

On its 66th Independence Day, it is important to emphasise this; to shake off the bleak and sinister prognostications of our “friends” and enemies.

An evaluation of Israel’s strengths versus our enemies’ threats leads to the conclusion that Israel is winning on all battlefronts, overcoming every challenge, and advancing in all ways.

Military threats to Israel have greatly diminished, as Arab societies and armies crumble across the Middle East. Soft power attacks on Israel – things like international campaigns to divest from Israel and to sanction Israel – have mostly fallen flat.

The Chinese, the Indians, and even the Europeans are lining up to buy Israeli technologies, not to boycott them.

Palestinian attempts to prosecute or confront Israel are a nuisance and ongoing, but they are mostly empty threats, as the Palestinians are in disarray and deeply divided (despite the flimsy, fake, rehashed Fatah-Hamas unity accord). The amorphous situation in the West Bank is messy but manageable, and is far less bad than most alternatives.

The dramatic weakening of America and the US-Israel relationship under President Barack Obama is of grave concern, but this is temporary and reversible. And for Israel’s major challenge – the peril of an Iranian nuclear bomb – that too will yet be dealt with, I believe, quite firmly.

In the meantime, Israel’s dramatic drive to succeed ever-more in all aspects of life continues unabated, with spectacular results: outstanding science and top-notch technology; leading brain scientists and rocket missile defence systems; Nobel Prize winners; first-class doctors and world-class healthcare; high levels of Torah study – only 70 years after the destruction of European Jewry’s

Torah world; a robust economy and strong currency; massive foreign investment; innovative water desalinisation programs and newly discovered, massive natural gas resources; a super-vibrant social assistance sector; multiple humanitarian missions undertaken abroad; and most of all, sensational activism and high motivation of our magnificent youth.

So my net assessment of Israel’s strategic and internal situation is astonishingly optimistic.

If anything worries me, it’s our domestic disputes, social ills and spiritual deficiencies. Plus the hard-left negativism of mainstream media. But these are our challenges to overcome.

And Israelis are neither crushed nor dispirited by their challenges. They remain quite resilient and energised to build an even better future.

Listen to the words of the late, great Rabbi Dr Ambassador Yaakov Herzog, speaking in 1971 about “The Permanence of Israel”:

“We face perils. No man can guarantee that fighting will not resume tomorrow, that our soldiers will not have to fight again bloody battles. But we know we have the strength to withstand them. The balance of arms is in our favour at the moment.

“We may face political isolation and pressures, but we face all this in the knowledge that we belong to a new epoch and that the Jew has changed – in Jerusalem, in Israel and across the world.

“And though at times it looks dark, the light will reappear.“With firmness touched with generosity, with strength uplifted by

spiritual understanding, we can move ahead. With all the difficulties, with all the pressures, we are the generation of redemption. Let us indeed be worthy of this privilege that defies human logic and supersedes human vistas.”

So on this Independence Day, count your personal and our national blessings.

Life in Israel is full of meaning and delight – adorned by sacrifice, commitment, achievement and joy – all the components that make life satisfying and exciting, and certainly so for a Jew.

Despite the overwrought friends, and the naysayers, boycotters and detractors – the Heavens are shining, not collapsing, upon Israel. JPost

US chip giant Intel to invest $6b in Israeli facilitiesUS computer chip giant Intel is to invest close to $6 billion in upgrading its Israeli production facilities.

Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said, “Intel chose to set up its most advanced production line in Israel in the face of tough competition. It’s an investment of billions of shekels… in Israeli hi-tech.”

“This is a vote of confidence in the Israeli economy and in Israeli brains,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid wrote on his Facebook page.

He said that thousands of new jobs would be directly created and tens of thousands indirectly.Intel’s Israel Development Centre, opened in 1974 in the northern port city of Haifa, was the

company’s first design and development centre outside the United States.It has facilities in Jerusalem, the central town of Petah Tikvah and in Yakum, north of Tel Aviv,

as well as a large manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in the south.The company website says it currently has 9,885 employees in Israel. AFP

The sky is not falling David M. Weinberg

Reuters’ bungled headlineCredit Reuters with this bungled headline:

If – instead of skimming the headlines – you bothered to read down to the sixth paragraph, you would have seen that the demolition had nothing to do with the passing of the 29 April peace deadline:

The Israeli army said in a statement that eight structures, including a “mosque in use”, were demolished because they had been built illegally inside a dangerous live-fire military training zone. Honest Reporting

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Satisfied smiles and an air of achievement where the order of the day on Tuesday, 29 April, as NCJWA WA members came to the Maurice Zeffert Home to mark a remarkable Mitzvah, by some of the NCJWA ladies. We invited them to unveil a plaque at the Maurice Zeffert Home Kiosk, to remember and honour our volunteers who worked for more than 30 years in the Kiosk, giving support and care to the Home residents. The Kiosk was established and operated by our volunteers from 1979 to 2013. We thanked in particular Rosa Hennings Z”L and Paula Midalia, who for years were responsible for the running of the Kiosk. We thanked the members of Gilad and Shalom Groups for all their love and dedication to this project. It was very special to have Paula Midalia and Andrew Carver, Rosa’s nephew with us.

As part of the NCJWA WA Communities Services Portfolio, the MZH was always been close to our hearts. We are very proud of NCJWA being a driving force behind the establishment of the Home. NCJWA WA then

President, Edna Luber-Smith AM was the initiator of this project and Council was the first group to have the vision to start fundraising for the Home.

We marked the event with an afternoon tea and MC Valerie Frank, passing the microphone around for the members to share memories. Thank you to the MZH CEO, Dr Michael Preece, for his support and participation in the unveiling of the plaque. Thanks also to Ann Gerson for all her assistance during the handing over of the Kiosk back to the Home and the organising of the afternoon tea. We would also like to thank the Department of Multicultural Affairs for the Volunteers Grant that went towards the cost of the plaque.

The National Council of Jewish Women of Australia represents an organisation of passionate and engaged women, committed to spreading Jewish values across the world. The patience, wisdom and strength of all these women are an inspiration. Many of these ladies are now in their eighties and have been working as volunteers for Council since their teens. Once again we followed NCJWA motto with our deep commitment to tikkun olam, making the world a better place.

Thank you ladies!

Ester Steingiesser, NCJWA WA

A wonderful partnership

Dr Michael Preece, Paula Midalia, Andrew Carver, Ester Steingiesser and Ann Gerson.

Volunteers – a tribute

All function requests can be sent to functions@csgwa.com.au

Standing in front of a giant flag, a tall blond politician asks his excited followers whether their country should have greater or fewer Moroccans.

When they are done chanting “fewer,” the speaker, Geert

Wilders of the far-right Dutch Party for Freedom, promises his listeners that he will “take care of it.”

Wilders was speaking at an event to celebrate his party’s strong showing in recent local elections.

A fierce critic of Islam who has compared the Koran to “Mein Kampf” and called the Prophet Muhammad the devil, Wilders had steered clear of slurring specific Muslim communities, instead peddling a unique brand of populist conservatism that eschewed the kind of Nazi-inflected, anti-Jewish rhetoric popular among far-right groups elsewhere in Europe.

But his “fewer Moroccans” comment has generated a furious backlash because it was seen as the first time he had engaged in open racism

that targeted an entire group as undesirable by definition. The statement has cost him much of the sympathy he enjoyed in some quarters of the Dutch Jewish community and blurred the lines that had separated him from other European far-right leaders.

“This is different from his past statements,” the pro-Israel journalist Ratna Pele wrote. “Before it was about Islam or Moroccan criminals, now it’s about the entire group that he says is unacceptable and needs to get out of the country.”

Dutch Jews never voted en masse for the Party for Freedom, though Wilders’ strident support for Israel and anti-Islamist posture did make him a star among certain Jewish constituencies, in Holland and abroad. But the statement on Moroccans has been seen as a final straw in a gradual estrangement that began in 2011, when the Party for Freedom was key to the Dutch parliament’s adoption of a ban on ritual slaughter – a measure reversed in 2012 by the senate only after vigorous lobbying by Jewish groups.

Wilders’ decision to cooperate with France’s National Front and Austria’s FPO – parties long viewed as Nazi-sympathising by the Jewish community – was also seen as a reversal of an earlier pledge not to band with anti-Semitic parties or politicians. Wilders and the National Front’s Marine Le Pen have agreed to form an anti-European Union bloc in Brussels after the 22 May European Parliament elections.

“Wilders used the Dutch Jewish community for his political needs domestically and then stabbed them in the back repeatedly now that they are of no use to him as he sets his sights on international politics,” said Wim Kortenoeven, a former Party of Freedom lawmaker who resigned in 2012.

Statements from Dutch Jewish groups confirmed the community’s widespread outrage at Wilders’ “Moroccan’ comment. Summing up the general sentiment, the Dutch Jewish weekly NIW last month averred, “Dutch Jewry is fed up with Geert Wilders.” JTA

Geert Wilders and Dutch Jews – end of the affair?Politics

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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 61 WOODROW AVE, YOKINE WA 6060 PHONE/FAX (08) 9275 2761Website on www.jnf.org.au

NOTICE OF

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGThe Annual General Meeting of members of the

Jewish National Fund of Australia Inc.Western Australian Division to be held at7pm on Thursday, 15 May 2014

in the Jewish Centre 61 Woodrow Avenue, Yokine 6060

AgendaIn accordance with Rule 8.2(c) of the Constitution of the Jewish National Fund of Australia Inc., the business of the Annual General Meeting shall comprise of the following: Confirm Minutes JNF WA Division’s AGM

of 21 May 2013 Report of State President Report of Hon. Treasurer Receive Audited State Financial Statement Election of State Board Members General BusinessEdwin Glasenberg, President JNF WA Division, 61 Woodrow Ave, Yokine WA 6060 T/F 9275 2761Peter Smaller, JNF National President and Dan Springer, JNF Chief Executive in attendance.The audited financial statements of the Fund’s WA Division are available for viewing on request in the JNF Office.

The 250 Australians, from Zionist youth movements including B’nai Akiva, Aviv (AUJS), Habonim Dror, Netzer and IBC, are in Israel as part of the Jewish Agency’s MASA program. The young Aussies participated in a number of physically challenging ODT workshops, where they gained a practical understanding of leadership, dealing with emergency situations, decisiveness, self defence, and environmental sustainability. Later on, the Australians participated in a dialogue with the Israelis, some of whom were injured during their military stint, before enjoying a traditional Australian barbecue together.

Hani Desa of the KKL-JNF Youth and Education Department said that the goal of the program, which was held in the framework of Anzac Day, was to “expose the youth to programs that were established thanks to friends of JNF Australia, to help them get to know the story of the Anzacs up close, and to provide them with challenging educational activities in the topics of leadership empowerment and more.”

According to Dovi Paritzky of KKL-JNF’s Youth and Education Division, the groups had to “work as a team, show determination and function under pressure, activities that develop leadership qualities and a sense of mutual responsibility.”

Earlier in the day, the young Australians, who

were divided into smaller groups, visited KKL-JNF sites in southern and central Israel, with special emphasis on projects supported by friends of JNF Australia. These included the Sha’ar Hanegev School, where JNF Australia contributed towards the construction of a green schoolyard with bomb shelters that can be reached in 15 seconds or less from any place in the school. As Dovi said, “We wanted them to be proud of what the Australian Jewish community has contributed to Israel.”

Since 25 April was Anzac Day, special emphasis was placed on ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) memorials and the Anzac Trail being developed by KKL-JNF in the south. Anzac Day commemorates the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fell fighting the Turks in Gallipoli, Beersheba and other places in the Mediterranean during World War I. In Palestine, 730 Anzac soldiers fell in the battle to conquer the Negev from the Turks.

KKL-JNF’s Anzac Trail, which was created with the help of its friends from Australia and New Zealand, is a series of historical sites along the “Major Military Outflanking” route, a manoeuvre that was executed by soldiers from Australia and New Zealand during World War I. These sites tell the heroic story of the conquest of Beersheba from the Turks by the Australian Mounted

Division. Some of the group visited the KKL-JNF Anzac memorial in Nahal Assaf in the Negev, while others visited the KKL-JNF Anzac memorial near the Yarkon River. On Friday, the entire group attended a special Anzac Day memorial ceremony in Jerusalem.

Australian youth mark Anzac Day 2014 with KKL-JNF in Israel Article KKL-JNF

On Thursday, 24 April, KKL-JNF’s Forest and Field Centre at Nes Harim in the Judean Mountains hosted a fascinating encounter between youth from Australia who are spending five months in Israel and young Israelis who at the same age had served in the Israeli army. The program was held in honour of Anzac Day.

Veronika Houboi watched as a man in a cowboy hat and clogs wielded a sledge hammer to smash up and remove a dozen small cobblestones from a Berlin pavement. He quickly filled the resulting hole with two identical blocks of concrete capped with inscribed square brass plates.

The blocks, called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks, read: “Here lived Dr Erich Blumenthal, born 1883, deported 29.11.1942, murdered in Auschwitz. Here lived Helene Blumenthal, born 1888, deported 29.11.1942, murdered in Auschwitz.” In Berlin, the blocks have become part of the fabric of the city, their plates glinting amid the grey paving on residential streets and stopping both locals and tourists in their tracks.

Houboi and her husband sponsored the Blumenthals’ blocks, travelling across Germany to see them laid in the northeast Berlin neighbourhood where Houboi, now 71, grew up in the 1940s.

As a child, she had been moved by a story about the family’s local doctor, who cared for her critically ill brother. defying Nazi laws banning

Jewish medics from treating non-Jews.Unable to find the name of that doctor,

Houboi decided to symbolically honour him by commissioning blocks for another local Jewish doctor, Dr Blumenthal, and his wife.

The man behind the stumbling blocks is Cologne-based artist Gunter Demnig, who in 1996 illegally laid the first 41 in the Berlin neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, having found the names in a local history book about the area’s Jewish population.

Three months later, the city granted Demnig permission to legally proceed with the project. Today there are 45,000 Stolpersteine in Germany and 16 other European countries. Berlin alone has 5,500 of them.

After working on an art project commemorating the Nazi deportation of Cologne’s Sinti and Roma itinerants, Demnig became determined to show how victims of the Holocaust had been an integral part of German and European society before the war.

“The idea was to bring back the names (of the

deported) in front of the houses where they had lived,” Demnig said. He added that Germans today had a greater desire to remember the atrocities of the Holocaust than when he was a child.

Demand for the stones has been steadily rising in recent years, as the project has become better known abroad. Demnig’s team installs on average 5,000 to 6,000 stumbling blocks a year across Europe, the majority of them in Berlin.

The stones are commissioned based on requests by relatives of victims or by neighbours present and past, like Houboi.

Also at the installation with Houboi was Colonel Erez Katz, the Israeli defence attache to Germany and Austria. “How German people remember the Holocaust surprised and impressed me. Every street has these stones. They take responsibility,” Katz said. Reuters

Cobblestones to remember murdered Jews multiply in Berlin

In Memory

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Farewell to 2014 March of the Living participantsThe final high school assembly had the opportunity to farewell Daniel Paletz and Megan Levine (Year 11) as they departed for Poland to participate in the annual March of the Living program where students for around the world meet to honour those lost during the Holocaust. We wish Megan and Daniel the very best and look forward to them sharing their experiences with the students on their return.

CARMEL SCHOOL 123 CRESSWELL ROAD, DIANELLA 6059 PHONE (08) 9276 1644Website: www.carmel.wa.edu.au

Dramapacks a punchThe high school assembly on the final day of Term 1 featured two drama performances by the Year 10 drama class. The performances linked combat drama skills with Shakespeare! The class has been working with combat drama specialists during the term and combined their new-found skills with their studies of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Performances were extremely realistic and had the audience in awe of the talented actors. High school drama teacher Miss Anastas suggested, “Combining the combat drama skills helped the students engage more fully in the challenging language and style of Shakespeare.”

Mazeltov Eden-Lee SchafferEden-Lee Schaffer can be very proud of herself! She has been selected for the under 12 WA State schoolgirls’ soccer team that will be competing in Bendigo in September. Carmel School is honoured to have this extremely talented student competing as a representative of our school, a position she will hold with great pride. We wish Eden-Lee every success and will track her participation with keen interest.

Cosmetic creations in ScienceDuring Term 1, Year 7 Science classes were introduced to Chemistry, with a particular focus on Mixtures and Separation Techniques. As a conclusion to a productive Term 1, students within groups chose to produce natural mixtures of their own, in the way of either lip balms or bath bombs. With some special help from Taelon Bennett’s mum Joanne, students made luscious all-natural caramel scented lip balm. Other groups chose to make fizzy bath bombs, which I heard were used to help relax some students over the holiday break. We would like to thank Joanne Bennett who generously provided us with her time and expertise along with all the ingredients used to make the lip balms.

Yom Hashoah AssemblyThe theme for this year’s Yom Hashoah Assembly was the Kindertransport in which over 10,000 children, mainly Jewish, were sent to England to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Year 10 students took on the characters of some of the kinder allowing the audience to appreciate how difficult a decision it was for families to send their children overseas but, at the same time, it was a decision that undoubtedly saved their lives. We were privileged to have Lore Zusman share her personal experience as one of the children who, with her sister, took part in the Kindertransport. Special guests included survivors Harry Hoffman OAM and Heiny Ellert as well as Freydi Mrocki from Melbourne who enhanced the assembly with a Yiddish lullaby.

Final High School Assembly recognises students’ contributionTerm 1 concluded with an assembly to recognise the contribution of many students within the community and to life at Carmel School. Most significantly, Head of Secondary, Mr Dean Shadgett, presented Seniors Badges to five Year 12 students, recognising their significant contribution in a wide range of events and activities within the school.

We congratulate Jade Katz, Josh Swersky, Asher Myerson, Jonathan Cohen and Zach Benn and thank them for making school life vibrant and engaging. The assembly also recognised the contribution of a large group of students assisting the JNF in the phonathon for Green Sunday. Each individual was presented with a certificate to thank them for their assistance.

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CARMEL SCHOOL

Annual General MeetingNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting ofH & S Hoffman and G Korsunski Carmel School Inc will be held on

SUNDAY, 25 MAY 2014 at 7pmin the BRECKLER TROY HALL, Cresswell Road, Dianella

AGENDA1. Welcome2. Apologies3. Minutes of last Annual General Meeting4. President’s Report5. Treasurer’s Report6. Election of Office Bearers:

7. General BusinessNominations for the above positions must be in writing, addressed to: The Honorary Secretary Carmel School Cresswell Road DIANELLA WA 6059

and must be sent to the above address not less than 14 days prior to the meeting, ie no later than Sunday, 11 May 2014. Please mark the envelope “Nomination”. Candidates should submit a CV and a brief manifesto and these will only be published in the Kesher Carmel and The Maccabean in the event that there is a contested election.

Interested members are encouraged to contact the President, Larry Rudman, to discuss their nomination.

Attendees are invited to join the Board for light refreshments following the meeting to celebrate the contribution of Mr Neil Wende and Mr Alan Osrin.

Gentlemen, please wear head covering to the meeting. Karen Steinberg, Honorary Secretary

EVERYBODYYYYY!PREPARE YOUR BODY!EVERYBODY!PREPARE YOUR BODY RIGHT!BNEI’S BACK, ALRIGHT!Oh my Hashem, we’re back again,Brothers, sisters, everybody’s

praying,Gonna bring the mads,

show you howGotta question for you

better answer nowAre we original? (Yeh)Are we only one? (Yeh)Are we perpetual? (yeh)Are we everything you need, are

you ready to proceed?

EVERYBODYYYYY!PREPARE YOUR BODY!EVERYBODY!PREPARE YOUR BODY RIGHT!

BNEI’S BACK, ALRIGHT! Bnei came ROARING back last week, and this week we continue the fun, from 4pm to 6.30pm on Shabbas!

We know we will see you in the backstreets (wink) of the Jewish Centre!

We would also like to give

helping us with the Pre-Pesach BBQ we had before Pesach. Thank you so much!

Affiliated with the JCA

PEEK and PICNICDO YOU HAVE A CHILD COMMENCING KINDY IN 2015 WHO IS NOT ENROLLED AT CARMEL?

Come and experience our wonderful Kindy!

Your child can:

Youth

Hey gang! I hope everyone enjoyed the first meetings back for term two! What a blast! Did you have fun too?

You can let me know and keep up to date with all things Habo on Facebook at www.facebook.com/haboperth and on Instagram @haboperth

This weekend is the Junior Sleepover! Woooooo!So if you’re in Years 3-8, come on down to the Jewish Centre on Saturday,

10 May from 7pm, and get picked up at 9am on Sunday morning.Seniors (Years 9-12) will be having usual meetings at the usual time of

6pm til 8pm with the usual amount of friendship, fun and friands! Which is a lot! Except for the friands, but feel free to bake some.

Also, while I just googled friands (which are a small French cake if you didn’t already know), I found this cake called the financier. What a bizarre name for a cake! Cakes can’t finance anything as they are inanimate objects. Anyway apaz they’re the same cake. Mmmm, I could go for some cake right now.

See you all this weekend!

‘Captain Kirk’ honoured by NASACanadian actor William Shatner, best known for playing the role of Captain Kirk in the ‘Star Trek’ series, received NASA’s highest civilian award last week for his work to inspire “a new generation of explorers.”

The 83-year-old Shatner, the grandson of European Jews who immigrated to Montreal, played the role of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, commander of the Federation starship USS Enterprise, from 1966 to 1969.

Between 1979 and 1994, Shatner starred in seven ‘Star Trek’ feature films, cementing his position as a cultural icon.

NASA paid tribute to the longtime actor, awarding him the Distinguished Public Service medal for his “outstanding generosity and dedication to inspiring new generations of explorers around the world – including many of the astronauts and engineers who are a part of NASA today – and for unwavering support for NASA and its missions of discovery.”

Shatner, who trained as a classical Shakespearean actor, began performing on stage in the early 1950s.

Shatner accepted the award in Los Angeles, at an annual charity event he organised to raise money for children’s causes. Times of Israel

Award

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WIZOTelephone:  9276  7420

Email:  wizowa@wizowa.org.au       website:  www.wizoaustralia.org.auWomen’s International Zionist

Organisation

for an Improved Israeli Society

Help us raise funds for National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (WA)

Entertainment Book $65 each

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NCJWA office 9276 8040 wa@ncjwa.org.auJoan Motta 9276 3585 motta@aapt.net.auVal Frank 9444 0005 valfrank@highway1.com.au

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Ten years of partnership with HRCCThe Haifa Rape Crisis Centre (HRCC) and NCJWA have been partners in empowering youth at risk since January 2004. The basis of our long term partnership is founded in our mutual understanding of the problems facing girls and women and their solutions.

In one of our workshops – we call it To be a girl and to be a boy – HRCC explores what is expected from girls and is expected from boys. What I expect from myself? How do social expectations affect my behaviour? Do we want to change it and, if we do, how?

The goal of the workshop is to make youth gain control and make decisions based on what they want. This is part of their becoming more assertive in their relationships and improving communication. This is just one way that HRCC and the NCJWA work together to make a difference in the lives of girls and women.

Dr Shira Sanders, Resource CoordinatorHaifa Rape Crisis Centre

Part of proceeds of the NCJWA Mother’s Day Breakfast will go towards this important project.

Natanya GroupNatanya’s next meeting and AGM will take place on Monday, 19 May 2014 at 7.30pm at the home of Valerie Frank, 46 Meenar Crescent, Coolbinia.

We are delighted to welcome as our guest speaker, Leon Schneider, who is serving as Shaliach to Habonim Dror and the Perth Jewish community. Leon will speak about the education system in Israel, and how it has changed in the ten years that he lived there, as well as the social protest movement and how that has brought about change.

All visitors are welcome, and there will be a $5 charge which covers the talk and supper. We look forward to seeing everyone.

WIZO AvivaOur next meeting will be held on Monday, 26 May at Julia Odes home 4 Malcolm Court Noranda at 7.45pm.

Our guest speaker, Johanna Majzner, will share her experience from working behind-the-scenes for the Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm. We look forward to seeing you there.

Barmitzvah MazeltovMazeltov to Yaron Zeilinger who recently celebrated his Barmitzvah at PHC. Yaron and his family generously linked their simcha with WIZO’s Bar/Batmitzvah Twinning Program, enabling a disadvantaged boy in Israel to also enjoy a meaningful Barmitzvah. Yaron was presented with a WIZO Barmitzvah Certificate to honour the occasion.

NCJWAPHONE:  9276  8040Email:  wa@ncjwa.org.au

www.ncjwa.org.au     www.icjw.orgAffiliated with the Jewish Community Appeal

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13 MAY 10AM SHARPBefore speaker Jennie SaracikSubscription of $30 is now due

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It’s been a good start to the major pennant season, winning two out of the first three matches.Maccabi beat Morley Assegai 4-1; Maccabi beat Scarborough Seals 4-1;Maccabi lost to Morley Magic 3-2

MACCABI NETBALL CLUB’S

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at the Maccabi CourtsNetSetGo has been developed to provide children from 5 to 10 years

with the best possible learning and playing experience to develop a positive introduction to netball, ensuring enjoyment

and continued participation.

New weapon in the war against superbugsIsraeli researchers zero in on a protein that viruses use to kill bacteria,

Abigail Klein Leichman

holding out hope of a new drug that could treat people infected with deadly resistant strains.

Health & Sci-tech

One of the leading causes of preventable death in the developed world is too small to see with the naked eye. This potent threat comes from “superbugs” – strains of bacteria that have morphed into a state of resistance against manmade antibiotics. No sooner is a new drug released than the cunning little microbes find a way to defeat it.

Scientists are searching for the ultimate weapon in this battle that the World Health Organisation named one of the three greatest threats to public health. New research out of Israel has revealed a protein made by a bacteriophage, a virus programmed naturally to kill bacteria.

The isolation of this phage protein is a major step toward developing a substitute for conventional antibiotics.

“To stay ahead of bacterial resistance, we have to keep developing new antibiotics,” said Udi Qimron of Tel Aviv University (TAU) medical school’s department of clinical microbiology and immunology, whose research team included Israeli and American scientists. “What we found is a small protein that could serve as a powerful antibiotic in the future.”

The results of the bi-continental study came out of a collaboration involving Qimron, Ido Yosef,

Ruth Kiro and Shahar Molshanski-Mor of TAU; and Sara Milam and Prof. Harold Erickson of Duke University in North Carolina.

Hunting proteinsBacteriophages, often referred to as “phages,” are viruses that infect and replicate in bacteria and are optimised to kill them. Phages may be microscopic, but they are the most common life form on earth, outnumbering bacteria 10 to one.

In places like the former Soviet Union, phages have been used to treat bacterial infections for the past hundred years. Harmless to humans, they inject their DNA into bacteria and rapidly replicate, killing their hosts.

“Ever since the discovery of bacteriophages in the early 20th century, scientists have understood that, on the principle of the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend,’ medical use could be made of phages to fight viruses,” said Qimron.

This approach has become ever more relevant over the past 60 years, as the misuse and overuse of antibiotics has pushed more bacteria to become aggressively resistant to the wonder drugs that form the basis of modern health care.

Israeli scientists have made some significant contributions to the war on superbugs. The late Prof Nathan Citri developed a medical kit

that identifies various resistant bacteria at a hospital patient’s bedside, fast enough to find an appropriate remedy and prevent an outbreak.

Qimron, with another TAU colleague, previously formulated a powerful cleaning solution for hospital use, fortified with genetically engineered bacteriophages.

For the current research, Qimron and his colleagues set out to understand how all 56 proteins found in T7, a particularly lethal phage that infects E. coli bacteria, contribute to its functioning.

They discovered that one of the proteins, called 0.4, causes the cells of the bacteria to elongate and then die. This protein is common to many different types of bacteria.

Although bacteriophages have not been approved in Western medicine for treating systemic bacterial infections – mainly because they do not penetrate body tissues effectively – the 0.4 protein is much smaller than a whole phage. Therefore, Qimron believes it should be able to get into the tissues to do its deadly work.

For this to happen, pharmaceutical companies will need to take the team’s findings and figure out how exactly to deliver the protein as a drug. Qimron, meanwhile, continues to hunt for other proteins that kill bacteria. Israel 21C‘

Photos Kim Berelowitz

Maccabi Seniors

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SHABBAT PARSHAT BEHAR

9-10 MAY 2014ShabbatCandlelighting  .............................................. 5.14pmMincha  ......................................................... 5.15pmKabalat  Shabbat  .......................................... 5.45pmShacharit  ..................................................... 9.00amShabbat  Mincha........................................... 5.00pmMaariv  Motzei  Shabbat  ................................ 6.10pm

Sunday  11th  MayShacharit  .....................................7.00am  &  8.00amMincha  ......................................................... 5.00pmMaariv  .......................................................... 5.15pm

WeekdaysShacharit  ..................................................... 6.15amMincha/Maariv  ............................................. 5.45pm

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shiurim  and  activities

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Services at the PHC Beit MidrashSHABBAT  TIMES

PARSHAT  BEHARCandle  Lighting....................................... 5.14pmMincha  .................................................... 5.15pmFollowed  byKabbalat  Shabbat  and  ArvitShacharit  Saturday  Morning  ................... 9.00amFollowed  byTorah  reading,  Musaf  and  Kiddush

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SHABBATFriday 9 MayErev Shabbat ................................................6.00pmSaturday 10 MayShabbat ......................................................... 9.00amBnei Mincha .................................................4.30pm

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PLEASE  NOTE:  Residents, friends and other congregants: Requests for Torah call-ups or enquiries regarding arrangements for special simchas, commemorations, kiddushim etc. at Shabbat services, should be directed to Mr Leon Levy at leonlevy@iinet.net.au.

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The quirky film that might save an Italian synagogueBased on a true family story, Felice Nel Box, by first-time director Ghila Valabrega, begins with Stefano, a Jewish photographer on a journey, stumbling across a dilapidated Jewish cemetery in the northern Italian town of Sabbioneta.

Saddened by the thought of the community being forgotten, Stefano grabs a tombstone and brings it home with him to Milan. What he doesn’t realise is that the ghost of the buried man, Felice Leon Foa, hops along for the ride. Fast forward thirty years, and Felice Nel Box is the whimsical story of how Stefano’s

two daughters and wife can see Foa… and about the love affair blooming between Foa and Stefano’s wife.

The film’s not yet done, and they’ve got one of the coolest crowdfunding concepts we’ve seen: Despite being a UNESCO Heritage site, the stunning, 190-year-old synagogue of Sabbioneta has fallen into disrepair due to a number of recent earthquakes.

Valabrega wants to help. Fifty per cent of every donation to the film’s production will go toward its restoration.

Without the synagogue, there is no charming movie – but without the charming movie, will there be a synagogue? Jewniverse

A Polish nun finds her Jewish roots Sarah Zarrow

Set in the early 1960s in the Polish countryside, Pawel Pawlikowski’s newest film Ida explores one woman’s confrontation with her heritage on the cusp of taking her vows. The Mother Superior instructs the almost-nun, Anna, to visit her only living relative, her aunt Wanda, who was known as “Bloody Wanda” thanks to her role as a procurator in Stalin-era show trials.

Wanda, it turns out, is Jewish. And Anna is, too.

In their first meeting, Anna, whose birth name, she learns, was Ida Lebenstein, asks her aunt where her parents are buried. Underscoring

Jews of her parents’ generation did not have graves. The two set out to find the burial place, but the current inhabitant of their former home has nothing to offer them – at first.

Spare and moving, Ida is shot in black-and-white, but as Wanda and Ida grow closer to each other, and to the truth, Pawlikowski offers no black-and-white answers to the myriad questions he raises, inviting us to ponder this tragic and haunting tale. Jewniverse

Film

Jerusalem InspirationThe word “shofar” comes from the word

– le-sha-FAYR – which means “to improve.” The sound of the shofar awakens us to beautify our deeds as we strive to improve ourselves.

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PHC WEEKLY TIMETABLE OF SERVICES (TEFILLAH)

SHABBATSidra .............................................................BEHAR

Haftorah ............................................JEREMIAH 32

EREV SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING NOT LATER THAN 5.14PM

Friday 9 May 2014

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Saturday 10 May 2014Shacharit ...................................................... 9.00am

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WeekdaysShacharit ...................................................... 6.30am

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Sunday and Public HolidaysShacharit ...................................................... 8.00am

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Living in RetirementTuesday, 13 MayCafé 61 – 10amMorning Coffee $5 pp

“Is The Jury Out On The Jury System”Guest Speaker – Michael Odes QC

Tuesday, 27 MayMZ Home – 10am$5 donation to MZH

“The Amazing Amazon”Video and Presentation by Kevin Blitz

Tuesday, 10 JuneCafé 61 – 10amMorning Coffee $5 pp

“Administration of Estates and Wills”Guest Speaker – Neville Friedman

Please bring yourself and your friends, and take this opportunity to meet new friends.Further details available from Colin Rockman 0418 928 018 or crockman@bigpond.net.au,

Kevin Blitz 9443 4531, Michael Odes 9375 1741 or Wilfred Hirschfield hirfam@optusnet.com.au

Where have all the Yahrzeits gone, long time passing?

Membership InformationThe PHC will be implementing a new CRM Database System as well as new accounting software in the next two months. In order to ensure that we have up to date and accurate membership information we will be sending out a short questionnaire for members to complete with new and current details. We would appreciate it if all members would please complete and submit these forms to the shule ASAP after receiving them.

The shule sends out thousands of yahrzeit letters every year reminding members of a yahrzeit coming up and indicates to members how to show the love, respect and esteem for those departed loved ones on the day of the yahrzeit. In the last year or so, I have personally written a little note on each letter to indicate that this is not just an impersonal computer-generated communication, but is heartfelt from the Rabbi to his community. Yes, there are those who as a result of these letters may come to shule to say kaddish for their parents and loved ones on the day of the yahrzeit and there are some who may sponsor the third meal (seudah shlishis) in the name of their departed loved one, but over the years, I have noticed a real decline (despite all the communications sent from the shule) in children and grandchildren coming to shule on a yahrzeit to show the proper honour for parents, grandparents, spouses, brothers and sisters. At least we should give ! hour up on the eve of the yahrzeit, apart from lighting a candle at home, to come to shule to say kaddish for those who we loved and still love. What is this world coming to if we don’t do that?

I asked somebody very tactfully the other day as to why he doesn’t come to shule for the yahrzeit of his father and he was embarrassed because he did not know how to recite kaddish! I would be honoured if anyone who is in this position, when

they receive their yahrzeit letter, I will personally go through the kaddish with them so that they will be able to show openly the respect they have for their loved ones. Never let embarrassment at not being competent or not knowing a shule prayer or requirement stop you from participating. I am your rabbi and it would be a privilege for me to assist you in always being comfortable in shule. Just let me know what you need!

Please G-d, I look forward to helping you in your requirements for simchas even more than yahrzeits!

Thank you! The PHC Board of Management would like to thank all PHC members who have already paid their membership dues and pledges for their commitment to and support of the shule – thank you!

We appeal to all members who have not yet paid their accounts to please do so before 31 May (which is the end of the PHC financial year). If you are unsure about the status of your account please send an email to accounts@theperthshule.asn.au or call Dianne on 9271 0539.

PHC GIFT & BOOK SHOP

MOTHER’S DAY – great gifts and ideas Pop into the Pop-up shop in the PHC parking lot

Friday, 9 May from 9am to 12 noon

(Receive a mystery discount)

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BirthJenna and Nathan Givoni are delighted to

announce the birth of their daughter

HANNAH LILA GIVONI Born 18 April 2014

Adored by grandparents Sheila and Edwin Glasenberg

Michelle and Brandon Givoni (Melbourne)

Personals

Thank YouThe Swartz and Ulmer families wish to thank all who offered their condolences and support

following the recent passing of their beloved mother, mother-in-law and nana

ROSE SWARTZ

ACROSS7 A mosquito in Hebrew (6)8 A prayer (lit) (6)10 Give something useful or necessary (7)11 It happens or takes place (5)12 Semi-transparent gemstone (4)13 Endures pain or hardship without complaining (5)17 Fardeent (Yiddish) in English (5)18 What coin could purchase an idol? (4)*22 The Celtic language of Erin (5)23 Would a caliper present a pure copy? (7)*24 Could the use of gin produce a mastermind? (6)*25 Stewed fruit in Yiddish (6)

DOWN1 An indication of an ailment (7)2 A low backless, armless seat (7)3 A savoury jelly made with meat stock (5)4 A highly poisonous substance (symbol As) (7)

5 “And how can man die better than facing fearful odds for the – – – – of his father and the temple of his gods?” (Macaulay) (5)

6 “Workers of the world, – – – –” (Karl Marx) (5)9 Nary an Eastern cent was donated

at the 100th anniversary (9)*14 Jewish dietary laws in Hebrew (7)15 Economises (7)16 A moderately slow tempo (Musical) (7)19 Win this numbers game and shout – – – – ! (5)20 One of super human size (5)21 A fartich (Yiddish) in English (5)

*Denotes Cryptic Answers on page 14

Crossword Colin Shur

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