L'Chaim - To Life Podcasts
A curated selection of interviews broadcast on L'Chaim - To Life with Maurice Klein, Wednesdays 9pm to 10pm on 3ZZZ 92.3FM in Melbourne, Australia or on the 3ZZZ website www.3zzz.com.au and click the "Listen Live' button. If you would like to contact us here at L'Chaim - To Life our email is lchaim3zzz@gmail.com Please consider becoming a member of the Jewish Group here at 3ZZZ for $16 per annum and for Seniors only $11 per annum click on https://www.3zzz.com.au/membership/ L'Chaim Am Yisrael Chai PEACE
Episodes
Morry Frenkel speaks with A/Prof Matteo Vergani, Associate Professor at Deakin University and the director of the Tackling Hate Lab, about the establishment of the Lab and details of its two, recently released reports: Mapping Online Anti-Jewish Hate in Australia: A Big Data Analysis, and From Shock to System: The Rise of Anti-Muslim Hate in Australia. Matteo and his collaborators have used AI interrogation of more than 2 million s...
Anita Frayman speaks with Ben Adler, Sydney based violinist, composer, arranger and founder of the klezmer fusion band Chutney and the Nomad String Quartet. Chutney’s debut album ‘Ajar’ recently won a triple gold medal at the Global Music Awards in San Diego. Ben is the director of Shir, the Australian Jewish Music Festival. Since the 2022 controversial artist boycott of the Sydney Music Festival over a sponsorshi...
The ABC Watch’s Sharon Kuper reveals what the ABC don’t want you to see that they instruct their journalists to repeat a lie, based on COMPLETE FABRICATIONS! The ICJ and HRC findings they cite NEVER HAPPENED! This is followed by Pop icon Boy George who just dropped a breathtakingly blunt and brave song, laying out in black and white his contempt for calling Israel’s actions a genocide and for his fellow music...
Description: Sharon Kuper previews 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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Morry Frenkel speaks with Dr Alan Finkel AC, Chair of the Group of 8 (Go8) Expert Advisory Committee on Combatting Antisemitism. Alan describes the committee’s composition and its brief, and talks about the major findings and recommendations of the report recently submitted to the G08 universities. He discusses the reasons behind the committee’s acceptance of the Universities Australia Definition of Antisemitism rather ...
The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP, former Attorney General tells the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion his vision on how hateful social media posts should be handled by the Government. Even though while he was in office nothing was done; it’s never too late to act on it!
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Morry Frenkel speaks with Debbie Lee, Director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week (MJBW), about the upcoming festival. Debbie talks about the theme of the festival - Connections – and its exciting program, which promises sessions reflecting a broad range of topics. She also describes the backgrounds of the international guests and details a number of the sessions to showcase the quality of the program on offer. Book Week runs from...
Sharon Kuper previews this coming week’s community events. To get WhatsApp notifications of Jewish Community Events go to https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvXuBBkF6SpCNMqANac6Y9
Go to https://omny.fm/shows/lchaim-to-life where you will find a full library of past programs and past podcasts.
If you would like to contact us here at L'Chaim our email is lchaim3zzz@gmail.com
For only $16 p.a., please consider becoming a member of t...
Malka Lawrence speaks with Josh Dabelstein, writer, commentator and Executive Director of the Movement Against Antizionism Australia. Through his writing and advocacy, Josh is helping to shape the conversation on Zionism, antisemitism and Jewish life in Australia. His articles have appeared in many of Australia's leading publications, and he brings a thoughtful and informed perspective to some of the most important issues facing th...
Malka Lawrence speaks with Naava Eckstein, Engagement Advisor with the Community Bank Caulfield Park. Most of us think of a bank as a place for savings and loans, but the Community Bank Caulfield Park is different. Through its Community Investment Program, profits are reinvested into local organisations, projects and initiatives that help strengthen our community. Naava plays an important role in bringing that program to life. Work...
Gavin Fang, Editorial Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), explains the involvement of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in the ABC’s current “internal/external” complaints process to Bora Kaplan SC, Counsel for the Commonwealth at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on 9 July 2026.
Go to https://omny.fm/shows/lchaim-to-life where you will find a full lib...
Sharon Kuper previews this coming week’s community events. To get WhatsApp notifications of Jewish Community Events go to https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvXuBBkF6SpCNMqANac6Y9
Go to https://omny.fm/shows/lchaim-to-life where you will find a full library of past programs and past podcasts.
If you would like to contact us here at L'Chaim our email is lchaim3zzz@gmail.com
Morry Frenkel speaks with Angie Bell MP, member of the House of Representatives, representing Moncrieff as a Liberal National Party MP, and sitting with the federal Liberal Party. Since February 2026, she has been Shadow Minister for each of Arts, Sport, and Youth. Angie talks about the ongoing repercussion of the doxing of Jewish creatives that occurred soon after the horrors of October 7th, 2023, and is critical of the Labor Gove...
Morry Frenkel speaks with Professor Haitham Amal, the Satell Family chair and professor of brain sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and visiting professor at the Boston Children's Hospital, about his research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). He describes features of the disorder and discusses the genetic and environmental factors associated with it. Professor Amal also talks about exciting research that has led to th...
Sharon Kuper previews this coming week’s community events. To get WhatsApp notifications of Jewish Community Events go to https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvXuBBkF6SpCNMqANac6Y9
Go to https://omny.fm/shows/lchaim-to-life where you will find a full library of past programs and past podcasts.
If you would like to contact us here at L'Chaim our email is lchaim3zzz@gmail.com
For only $16 p.a., please consider becoming a member of t...
Morry Frenkel speaks with Gareth Narunsky, editor-in-chief of the Australian Jewish News, about the paper’s submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Gareth describes the format of the submission; a compilation of more than 300 news stories, feature articles, opinion pieces and editorials, covering the period from just before the horrors of October 7th, 2023, until the present. He details three p...
Maurice Klein speaks with Major (Ret) Rami Sherman, veteran commando of Sayeret Maktal, the premier Tier-1 special forces and deep-reconnaissance unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Major (Ret) Rami Sherman, fifty years ago was part Operation Entebbe , code named Operation Thunderbolt, when the IDF, undertook the long range counter terrorism mission of Operation Entebbe in Uganda, that was retroactively...
Anita Frayman speaks with Dr Joe Reich AM, about his latest book titled “We Should Have Talked: the biography of my father”. Both his parents had suffered the worst of the horrors of the Holocaust. Neither spoke of the deep emotional pain that they suffered and continued to suffer throughout their lives. Some twenty years after his father Jacob died, Joe decided to watch a video recording that Jacob had made with Steven...
Sharon Kuper previews this coming week’s community events. To get WhatsApp notifications of Jewish Community Events go to https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvXuBBkF6SpCNMqANac6Y9
Go to https://omny.fm/shows/lchaim-to-life where you will find a full library of past programs and past podcasts.
If you would like to contact us here at L'Chaim our email is lchaim3zzz@gmail.com
For only $16 p.a., please consider becoming a member of t...
Morry Frenkel speaks with Michael Gawenda, Walkley Award winner, and former editor and editor-in-chief of The Age, about the Cathy Wilcox cartoon, ‘Grass Roots’, that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age earlier this year. Michael talks about the important role traditionally played by the political cartoonist in the popular press and the process he followed as editor in assessing whether a cartoon should be...
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