L'Chaim - To Life S13 E6 (25-06-2025) with Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Emily Gian, David Slade, Dr Rachael Kohn AO, Gareth Narunsky and Sharon Kuper

The program is replayed Fridays between 2PM and 3PM on Melbourne’s 3ZZZ 92.3FM

 

Israel At War Mythbuster – Soroka Hospital strike (*from 0:23 mins)

Description: IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin responds to Iran’s missile strike on Soroka Hospital on June 19, 2025. And the world’s response to Iran’s targeting this civilian infrastructure is deafening silence.

 

Title: Emily Gian – When a country like Iran threatens to wipe you off the map you have to take it seriously (*from 3:32 mins)

Description: Morry Frenkel speaks with Emily Gian, Director of Social Media for the Zionist Federation of Australia, who has been living in Israel with her family almost uninterruptedly since July, 2023. Emily describes day-to-day life there in the months prior to October 7th, how her and her family’s world was turned upside down with the aftermath of the horrors of that day, and the reporting in Israeli media of the rise in antisemitism in Australia. She also talks about the mixed feelings following the recent attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities and infrastructure.

 

 

Title: KAN English News Flash – June 25, 2025 at 2PM IDT/9PM AEST (*from 20:21 mins)

The latest English language radio news bulletin from KAN, the Israeli Broadcasting Service.

 

Title: David Slade – NextGen leader: engaging with the younger generation is front and centre (*from 28:24 mins)

Description: Maurice Klein speaks with David Slade, President of UIA-Keren Hayesod Victoria. We hear from David who has been to Israel many times and recently led a UIA Mission to Israel, that it was "resonantly profound" and a reminder of why the UIA -Keren Hayesod commitment to the people of Israel has become a priority for him. David walks us through the mission to Israel and the current important UIA- Keren Hayesod projects and programs that are paramount for the immediate support for Israel and that the UIA directly has supported over two million people last year. With a very engaged UIA Young Leadership division, David tells us how the generational change has also become front and centre for the organisation. To volunteer and support UIA-Keren Hayesod go to www.uiaaustralia.org.au, email [e-mail]  or phone [phone]. Am Yisrael Chai.

 

 

Title: Dr Rachael Kohn AO – The West unfortunately cultivates the fiction that the Arabs want a democratic state that has not existed neither in Gaza nor in the territories under the PA (*from 41:58 mins)

Description: Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Rachael Kohn AO, award-winning presenter and executive producer for more than 26 years of a number of religion-related programs on ABC Radio National, including The Spirit of Things, The Ark, Religion Today and Religion Report, about interfaith dialogue, the threat to democracy posed by religious intolerance and the unreality of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rachael also considers whether this conflict is a religious or geopolitical war.

 

 

Title: Gareth Narunsky – Tomorrow’s AJN Headlines today (*from 61:14 mins)

Description: We cross to Gareth Narunsky, the Australian Jewish News National Editor, for the headlines in this week’s edition of the paper.

 

 

Title: Sharon Kuper – L’Chaim - To Life Community Noticeboard (*from 63:11 mins)

Description: Sharon Kuper reviews this coming week’s community events. To get WhatsApp notifications of Jewish Community Events go to https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvXuBBkF6SpCNMqANac6Y9

 

 

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