NEW TIMESLOT: Sunday 9.00 PM from 7 March !

   The Turning Point has arrived : with a new Season, a new TimeSlot, the departure of our veteran Presenter Adam Krongold, and the official announcement that C31 is going Digital in May. Change is in the air everywhere !! And we have Charles Rose Fine Jewellers as our Sponsor for the next four weeks. We need more Sponsorship, so please come forward if you know someone, or you would like to help support our ongoing drive to keep the face of the Jewish Community on TV. Check out our Sponsorship Page and our Membership Page for more details on how you can contribute.....

    The last Shtick before our new timeslot, S19.12 is the Purim Show. Barry makes a long-awaited return, with Lisa and Eva on the Couch. Our special Guest is retired Mossad operative, Herzl Barak (aka Eddie Tamir), who correlates Mossad with Purim and the need to modernise and update some Purim concepts and traditions. The Crew perform our own Purim Spiel, conceived by Simon O Chen. Candy is Off The Couch in Chapel Street. The Yiddish Word is Gantse Megillah, which means the whole story, the long story of Queen Esther. End Music is Avraham Fried,the King of Chassidic Music, accompanied on piano and vocals by Yehuda Glantz, with backing by the Schnapps Band. 

We go to Kosherfest at the St.Kilda Town Hall for Episode S19.11, to find out about the diverse aspects of the emerging kosher industry.Broadcast on C31 on Monday 22 Feb. at 7.30pm, our Presenters Eva, Simon and Candy talk to Guests Sandra Dubs, Daniel Perlstein, Sam Rodan and Mordi Bendikt about their involvement in things kosher. A very interesting topic, with so many questions and peculiarities, that we just manage to touch the surface, hoping to cover more soon. End Music features Nigel Kennedy, the world renowned violin virtuoso in a fusion jazz jam with our very own Dr. Allan Zavod on keyboard, Jeremy Alsop on Bass, Darren Farugio on drums, with Julien Wilson standing by on sax.

    The JNF Green Sunday is the focus of Episode S19.10, shown on C31 on Monday 15 Feb. at 7.30pm. We go to the Beth Weizmann Centre where an army of volunteers gather to get on the phone to raise money for several projects that the JNF(jnfaus.com.au ) are working on. Our Presenters, Russell, Simon and Adam talk to Guests Tavor Ben Dor, Miriam OhevetEL, Joe Krycer and Ricki Hersburgh who discuss their environmental involvements and concerns for sustainable activities. The End Music is Tavor on sitar and Miriam singing about sisterhood and brotherhood, needing to act for a greener world.  

  Back for 2010 with Episode 19.09, the Yiddish Show,  broadcast on C31 on Monday 8 Feb. at 7.30 pm. Our Guests are Alex Dafner and Elisa Gray, both hard core Yiddishists.The fascination with the Yiddish language and culture will continue as the year goes on ! End Music is the 13 year old singer Rachael Lara performing "Higher Ground", the anthem which we hope will define her future ambitions.

    We are now on Summer Break, but the show goes on, as Channel 31 is on 24 Hour transmission, seven days a week. There will be three Repeats in January before we get back to make more Shtick for 2010.  

 Just in case you haven't heard, The federal government has given the green light for the takeup of the Digital Spectrum for Channel 31 Melbourne and community stations in other major cities.   This will be a great boon for community TV as there will be much improved reception in both quality and audience reach. We at The Shtick are very excited about the prospect of going to to the next level of television magic !

  Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a Magical New Year. In this world, as at The Shtick, there is a lot to fix. Let's hope for improvement, achievement, calm, trust and faith..... in the future!

For the rest of 2009 we made two Clip Shows, S19.02 for Holiday Cheer, and S19.03 for New Year Greetings.They are little fun favourites, introduced by The Crew. A true mish-mash of only a few of the many Memory Shticks to come in the new Season, and well into the year 2010, which is promising to be a groundbreaking new era for Channel 31 and The Shtick as we become Digitally Enhanced in the next few months !!

If you miss it on Sunday night at 9.00 PM, be sure  to catch The Shtick Repeat Wednesday at 2.30PM or on Friday morning at 3.00AM

If you're working Wednesday arvo. or sleeping Friday morning, keep an eye out for when it gets put on Youtube, usually by Wednesday evening of the week it is first shown on C31 on Monday night.

If you would like to contribute ideas, submit material or make any suggestions for the production of The Shtick in the weeks ahead, please contact Henry Greener. Become a member of The Shtick Thing and receive complementary shtick shtuff. Just do the SHTICK - We are always looking for people who want to become involved, so come join the team.