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Fast Forward Australian City Bans New Synagogue Over Possible Terror Threats
(JTA) — An Australian court has upheld a municipal council’s decision to ban the construction of a synagogue in suburban Sydney because it could become the target of a terrorist attack. The group that wants to build the synagogue near Bondi Beach called Wednesday’s ruling by the Land and Environment Court “rewarding terrorism.” The Waverley…
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Fast Forward Australian Labor Party Votes To Recognize A Palestinian State
SYDNEY (JTA) — The members of Australia’s New South Wales Labor Party have voted for the recognition of a Palestinian state following a push by former Foreign Minister Bob Carr. The resolution was watered down ahead of the conference on Sunday in Sydney and failed to follow its original call for unilateral recognition of a…
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Fast Forward Australian Cops Recover Baby Bottle Bong Decorated With Swastika
The police report sounds like a Madlibs collection: a baby bottle, a bong, and a swastika. And yet, according to the Wanneroo Police Department in Australia, it’s nothing new for them. Wanneroo police were conducting a search of a suspect’s home when one officer stumbled upon a baby bottle that had been fashioned into a…
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Community The Secret Jewish History Of The Greatest General You’ve Never Heard Of
John Monash is probably the greatest general of the 20th century that you’ve never heard of. It’s understandable – we do not teach or study WWI the way we do WWII, and especially for Americans, we focus hardly at all on Australian forces and commanders, of either war. In terms of skill, aptitude, ingenuity and…
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Fast Forward Frank Lowy, Australian Shopping Center Magnate, Is Knighted
SYDNEY (JTA) — Frank Lowy, a Holocaust survivor who fought in Israel’s War of Independence and went on to become a billionaire shopping magnate in Australia, was knighted in the United Kingdom as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honors. Lowy’s knighthood was announced Friday night. He is chairman of the Westfield Corp., a global shopping…
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Fast Forward Extradite My Molester Principal Back To Australia, Alleged Victim Asks Israel
MELBOURNE (JTA) – A Jewish woman who said she had been molested repeatedly by her former principal called on Israel to extradite him back to their native Australia. Dassi Erlich, a 29-year-old mother of one who said that her alleged molestation by Malka Leifer had left her emotionally scarred, made the plea Sunday during a speech at…
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Community Is The Two State Solution Over? Thomas Friedman Says…Maybe.
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian Jewish publication. If Israel and the Palestinians are to find peace, the initiative will have to come from them. They must own the process, or it will be doomed to fail, according to Thomas Friedman. “In the entire history of mankind, no-one ever washed…
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Fast Forward Teacher At Australian Jewish Schools Arrested On Child Porn Charges
SYDNEY (JTA) — Police arrested a teacher at a Melbourne Jewish day school after his previous employer, also a Jewish day school, allegedly uncovered child pornography and surreptitiously taken photos on a computer he used. “Detectives have charged a man following an investigation into child pornography and upskirting incidents at an Eastern suburbs school,” a…
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