Statement by Anton Block, President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry The President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Anton Block, has rejected as “alarmist” suggestions that an amendment to the definition of marriage in Australian civil law will in some way open the door to a future infringement of the religious freedoms of those who believe in the traditional definition of marriage. He was commenting on a controversial statement issued by the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) urging Australians to vote “No” to proposed reforms to Australia’s marriage laws that would recognise same sex marriages.
ECAJ Executive Director Peter Wertheim was quoted in the Australian Jewish News this week regarding a recent motion about Israel that was debated at Western Australia Labor Conference.
It has been 120 years since the First Zionist Congress was convened by Theodor Herzl in Basel, Switzerland.
The following article was published in The Australian Jewish News on 24th August, 2017 ahead of the Sydney launch of ECAJ Public Affairs Director Alex Ryvchin's book The Anti-Israel Agenda.
Please see the full media release from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry about recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia.
MEDIA RELEASE 14 August 2017 ECAJ defends former High Court Justice Michael Kirby The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has strongly defended former High Court judge Michael Kirby against criticisms made by the head of another Jewish organisation, the Anti-Defamation Commission, alleging that Michael Kirby had made “inappropriate analogies” between the situation of LGBTIQ people in contemporary Australia and Jews in Nazi Germany.
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