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PROMOTING OUR TRADITIONS
In our shul, on the bimah, we are looking to
promote our traditions of:
wearing tallit when on the bimah,
(men) to wear kippot/yarmulke
sensible and decorous attire
Your co-operation will be warmly
appreciated.
From your Board ….
CHAIRMAN OF ARZENU VISIT TO AUSTRALIA and NZ
Mark Anshan, Chairman of ARZENU (International Federation of Reform and
Progressive Religious Zionists) to visit Australia and New Zealand
ARZA Australia are very pleased and privileged to announce the upcoming visit of
Mark Anshan, the chairman of the world body ARZENU of which ARZA Australia is a
member.
Mark, who lives in Toronto, Canada is a long time leader of the reform movement.
Apart from being the current ARZENU Chairman, Mark is also Vice Chair of the Union
of Reform Judaism (our sister movement in North America), as well as being a
member of the Education and Information technology Committees of the Jewish
Agency for Israel Board of Governors.
Mark speaks and writes on Middle East and Israeli current affairs and appears as a political commentator
and analyst on TV public affairs programs.
Mark will be visiting our community in October 2004. He will be in Auckland on the 11th, Wellington on
the 12th, Sydney from 13th – 16th, Melbourne 17th – 18th, Adelaide 19th and Perth 20th October.
The World Zionist Organization,
The Jerusalem Program and ARZA
What’s the connection?
What Is The World Zionist Congress?
In 1897, Herzl convened Jewish leaders from around the world in Basel, Switzerland to
discuss the condition of the Jewish People. The delegates at the meeting decided to create a
movement whose goal it was to establish a Jewish Homeland and thus the World Zionist
Organization was born.
What is the Jerusalem Program?
The Jerusalem Program is the set of ideals and principles on which all Zionists agree. It was
adopted in 1951 at the 23rd WZO Congress, revised by the 27th Zionist Congress in 1968
and again recently revised at the June 2004 session of the WZO in Jerusalem. The full text
of the Jerusalem program can be found over the page. All affiliates of the Zionist Federation
of Australia are required to accept the Jerusalem Program in order to be accepted as an
affiliate.
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