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14th June 2016 MEDIA RELEASE We are deeply saddened, shocked and angered by the massacre carried out at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead and 53 injured.

15th February 2016 The “resolution on Israel-Palestine” passed by the NSW State Labor Conference on February 14th, which “encourages all party members visiting the region for the purpose of understanding the conflict to spend substantial time in both Israel and Palestine”, reflects precisely what has occurred for many years when MPs and others have participated in the Jewish community’s sponsored trips to Israel.

26th October 2015 ECAJ President Robert Goot, and Executive Director, Peter Wertheim, met for almost an hour on Wednesday, October 21, with Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop.

9th September 2015 The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed the announcement today by the Australian government that Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees who are fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq.

1st August 2015 The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the elected representative body of the Australian Jewish community, is saddened, appalled and outraged by the heinous crime that took the life of Ali Saad Dawabsha, an 18 month old infant boy from Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank.

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