Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon likened recent police raids on the offices of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) to Nazi Germany in an interview on Sky News this week.
As the representative body for the Australian Jewish community, which has the highest number of Holocaust survivors per-capita outside Israel, we are immensely disappointed by the proposed Polish Property Legislation which would exclude the vast majority of Holocaust survivors from ever achieving the return of property seized during the Holocaust or receiving just compensation.
Hate graffiti, including swastikas, has appeared on a Sydney train and Brisbane homes.
Hebrew programs continue to be broadcast by SBS following review September 24, 2017 J-Wire Staff SBS has announced its new programming for its foreign language radio broadcasts and has flagged no change to Hebrew schedule.
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.
Please see the full media release from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry about recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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