MEDIA STATEMENT 9 January 2017 VEHICULAR TERRORIST ATTACK IN JERUSALEM From Anton Block, President, and Peter Wertheim, Executive Director: We are shocked and appalled by the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Sunday, during which a Palestinian terrorist rammed a truck into a group of soldiers at a popular promenade in the city’s south.
MEDIA STATEMENT 30 November 2016 Royal Commission report concerning Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), the elected representative body of the Australian Jewish community, has commended the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for its report into the response of Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne to allegations of child sexual abuse made against people associated with those institutions.
MEDIA STATEMENT 30 November 2016 Royal Commission report concerning Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), the elected representative body of the Australian Jewish community, has commended the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for its report into the response of Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne to allegations of child sexual abuse made against people associated with those institutions.
MEDIA STATEMENT 27 November 2016 ECAJ Annual Report on Antisemitism in Australia The 12 month period ending 30 September 2016 saw a 10% increase over the previous year in antisemitic incidents in Australia involving threats or acts of violence, according to the annual Report on Antisemitism in Australia published by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).
STATEMENT "Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives”.
MEDIA RELEASE 1 August 2016 Australia’s elected national Jewish roof body is urging all Jewish Australians to insert the word ‘Jewish’ or ‘Judaism’ in answer to the question on the Census questionnaire that asks ‘What is your religion?’ “This should be done for each member of the household when you complete the questionnaire on Census night on Tuesday 9 August 2016”, said Robert Goot, the President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
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