Just over a week ago, we wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urging him to meet with Dassi Erlich, a victim of sexual abuse by Malka Leifer when Leifer was principal of Melbourne’s Adass Israel School.
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.
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.
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