Alex Dafner "Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin will visit Australia" Yiddish report 3.11.2019

A large quantity of wood Hanukkah dreidels (a Jewish spinning top game). Source: iStockphoto

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin announced to a high profile Australian delegation, which included former Liberal PM John Howard, former Labor Treasurer Wayne Swan, former Liberal Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, former Liberal Defence Minister Brendan Nelson and former Labor Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, as well as Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Liebler, that he will be coming to Australia next year. - The high level Australian delegation of former ministers and local Jewish leaders, met with Israel’s Prime Ministers in waiting Benyomin Netanyahu and Beni Gantz, explored topics such as Israel’s high-tech and Space Agency with experts in the field, addressed Jewish world leaders at the Jewish Agency conference and attended several other high level meetings and functions in the Jewish State. - Her lawyers and Malka Leifer, the former principal of the ultra-Orthodox Israel Addass school in Melbourne, who is currently awaiting a ruling by a court in Israel on whether she is fit to be extradited to Australia to stand trial on 74 alleged charges of sexual abuse of students, have refused to cooperate with a panel of psychiatrists convened by the court to assess her psychological fitness to be extradited. - The Israeli embassy in Canberra has temporarily closed its doors and halted its services due to a dispute between the Israeli Ministry of Finances and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs… Anns: An event coming up for those whose Yiddish is not existent or not so good… MIT A YIDDISHN TAM TSVEY - A SECOND TASTE OF YIDDISH - Sunday 10th November, 11am-3pm at the Kadimah. This Yiddish Tog/Day returns with a program including a return of pickling cucumbers with Michael Gawenda, learning and singing Yiddish songs with Karen Feldman and Adam Starr, a beginners’ Yiddish class, a workshop for Sholem Aleichem College parents to match their kids’ Yiddish vocabs, cooking, craft and drama. The price includes kosher lunch. Go to Trybooking and type in “Mit A Yiddishn” and book yourself a spot asap…