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  • Dudi Sela celebrates with his fans after defeating Benjamin Becker from Germany in the first round of the 2016 Australian Open
    Dudi Sela celebrates with his fans after defeating Benjamin Becker from Germany in the first round of the 2016 Australian Open
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    Making Some Noise at the Australian Open

    A squad of rowdy fans shows up every year to cheer on Jewish tennis players—especially veteran Israeli competitor Dudi Sela

    byNomi Kaltmann
  • Rabbi Ari Rubin’s mobile sukkah in Cairns, Australia
    Rabbi Ari Rubin’s mobile sukkah in Cairns, Australia
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    Outreach in the Outback

    For 20 years, Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia has been connecting with Jews in unexpected places—far from Melbourne and Sydney

    byNomi Kaltmann
  • Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Nordmann in a ‘A Place to Call Home’
    Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Nordmann in a ‘A Place to Call Home’
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    A Place to Call Home

    The Australian series, set in the aftermath of World War II, portrays religious life (and Jews) with bracing sincerity

    byMichael Oren
  • Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s ‘The Ghetto Cabaret,’ directed by Gary Abrahams, 2019
    Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s ‘The Ghetto Cabaret,’ directed by Gary Abrahams, 2019
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    Yiddish Thrives Down Under

    How the language gained an enduring foothold in Melbourne

    byNomi Kaltmann
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    Some Childhood Memories of My Friend Danielle

    Australia was as far from the horrors of Europe as she could get, and yet that wasn’t far enough

    byShira Nayman
  • Malka Leifer, a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a school, arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on Feb. 27, 2018. On the right: sisters Elly Sapper, Nicole Meyer, and Dassi Erlich.
    Malka Leifer, a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a school, arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on Feb. 27, 2018. On the right: sisters Elly Sapper, Nicole Meyer, and Dassi Erlich.
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    The Fugitive

    Why Israel harbored the woman accused of being Australia’s worst Orthodox Jewish sexual predator

    bySarah Krasnostein
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    The Trouble With Latkes

    Growing up in Australia, I loved almost all traditional Ashkenazi dishes. But Hanukkah’s greasy potato pancakes have always left me cold.

    byElissa Goldstein
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