Tagged Australian Jewish community

Prisoner X affair raises charges of dual loyalty for Australian Jews
February 20, 2013 / Dan Goldberg, JTA
The grave of Ben Zygier in the main Jewish cemetery in Melbourne, where he was buried on Dec. 22, 2010 — one week after he apparently hanged himself in Yigal Amir’s cell at Ayalon Prison in Ramle. (StThe grave of Ben Zygier in the main Jewish cemetery in Melbourne, where he was buried on Dec. 22, 2010 -- one week after he apparently hanged himself in Yigal Amir's cell at Ayalon Prison in Ramle. (Steve Yarrow)

SYDNEY (JTA) – As more details have seeped out about the mysterious life and death of Israel’s Prisoner X — identified last week by an Australian TV program as Ben Zygier — the wall of silence surrounding those who knew him has begun to show some cracks. On Tuesday,… Read more »

Member of two tribes: Aussie Aborigine is Orthodox shul president
June 29, 2011 / Dan Goldberg, JTA
Lisa Jackson Pulver, a Jewish member of the Aboriginal tribe called the Wiradjuri. (From “Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous People Working Together” by Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin)Lisa Jackson Pulver, a Jewish member of the Aboriginal tribe called the Wiradjuri. (From "Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous People Working Together" by Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin)

SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — Lisa Jackson Pulver is not your average Australian Jew. Yes, she is one of this country’s 110,000 or so Members of the Tribe, but she is also a member of another tribe: an Aboriginal clan called the Wiradjuri. Jackson… Read more »

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