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  • The Sukkah Boys founders Zuzz Rapp, at left, and Billy Klein, who, with their team of contractors, construct about 300 sukkahs a year in Melbourne
    The Sukkah Boys founders Zuzz Rapp, at left, and Billy Klein, who, with their team of contractors, construct about 300 sukkahs a year in Melbourne
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    Need Help Building Your Sukkah?

    For residents of Melbourne, Australia, help is on the way

    byNomi Kaltmann
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    All Together Now

    In Melbourne, a massive project aims to bring Jewish organizations, museums, communal groups, and restaurants to a new, one-stop destination

    byNomi Kaltmann
  • 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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    Becoming a Grandmother

    Growing up in a community of Holocaust survivors and their children in Melbourne, Australia, I didn’t know many grandparents. So now that I’ve got grandchildren of my own, I’ve had to figure out for myself exactly what being a grandmother means.

    byShyrla Pakula
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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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    ‘Buchenwald Boys’ Celebrate 70 Years of Freedom

    On the anniversary of the camp’s liberation, a group of Holocaust survivors party in Melbourne

    byAndrew Harris
  • (LET THE CELEBRATIONS BEGIN!. Text copyright © 1991, 2013 by Margaret Wild. Illustrations copyright © 1991, 2013 by Julie Vivas. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, Australia.)
    (LET THE CELEBRATIONS BEGIN!. Text copyright © 1991, 2013 by Margaret Wild. Illustrations copyright © 1991, 2013 by Julie Vivas. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, Australia.)
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    Teaching Kids About the Holocaust: How Young Is Too Young?

    ‘Let the Celebrations Begin,’ an acclaimed and controversial Australian children’s book, raises questions about Holocaust education

    byElissa Goldstein
  • A woman poses with an Australian newspaper on Feb. 14, 2013, showing the front-page story about Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X.(William West/AFP/Getty Images)
    A woman poses with an Australian newspaper on Feb. 14, 2013, showing the front-page story about Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X.(William West/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Prisoner X Was From My Shtetl

    Melbourne’s Jews confront the mysterious death of one of their own, Ben Zygier, in an Israeli prison

    byElissa Goldstein
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