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.
On Monday Parliament heard two emotional speeches about alleged Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian children.
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).
Nazi forces massacre Kiev’s Jews at Babi Yar in September 1941, during World War II. There is something about long-haul travel conducted in solitude that infuses the mind with a strange kind of focus.
We refer to media reports that a UNESCO committee on Thursday (October 13) passed a resolution concerning the Temple Mount and Western Wall, which pays lip service to the fact that the Old City of Jerusalem is holy to the three monotheistic religions - Judaism, Islam and Christianity – but then refers to these specific sites as if they were sacred only to Islam.
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