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4th August 2014 Joint Media Statement by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies – Apology by "Sydney Morning Herald" Concerning Antisemitic Cartoon The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the NSW Jewish Board Deputies welcome today’s editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald unreservedly apologising for the publication of an antisemitic cartoon on 26 July 2014.

3rd August 2014 The Sydney eastern suburb of Dover Heights was the scene of a solidarity with Israel rally with an estimated 10,000 people in attendance.

6th June 2014 The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has defended the Federal government’s statement that "the description of East Jerusalem as Occupied East Jerusalem is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful.” The Executive Director of the ECAJ, Peter Wertheim, said: The Federal government is simply being realistic.

28th May 2014 Representatives of the Indigenous, Greek, Jewish, Chinese, Arab and Korean communities met on Monday and Tuesday with more than 80 members of the federal parliament from the Coalition, Labor, the Greens and Independents to express their strong opposition to the government's plans to weaken the existing Federal law against racial vilification.

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