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Fast Forward Letting Student Wear Hitler Costume Was ‘Innocent Mistake,’ School Says
A private school in Australia said allowing a student to dress up as Adolf Hitler while students from a Jewish school visited was “an innocent mistake.” The Jewish students were present at an assembly on Wednesday when the boy was given a “best dressed” award for his Nazi costume, which a teacher at the private…
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Life Why Jewish Women Are a Challenging Demographic in Fight Against Breast Cancer
Public health officials trying to fight breast cancer in Australia find the country’s Jewish population especially challenging. That’s because Australia’s Jewish community of 112,000 is overwhelmingly Ashkenazi, or of European origin, and counts a high number of descendents of Holocaust survivors, said Lesley Andrews, a doctor at Prince of Whales hospital in Randwick, Australia. Andrews…
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Fast Forward Australia Headmistress Accused of Molesting 70 Girls Walks Out of Israel Jail
A former Australian school principal, wanted in her home country on suspicion of sexually abusing at least 70 students, was freed from house arrest in Israel on Tuesday but ordered to undertake medical treatment after a court ruled her mentally unfit for extradition. Malka Leifer will receive mandatory drug treatment for six months before her…
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Fast Forward Australia Rejects Push for ‘McKosher’ Trademark
SYDNEY — An Australian lawyer who claims he is of Scottish-Jewish descent has failed in a bid to register the trademark “McKosher.” Trademark applicant Mark Glaser has an office based in the northern North South Wales town of Maclean, which prides itself on being the Scottish capital of Australia and even boasts tartan telegraph poles….
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Fast Forward Australian Headmistress Won’t Face Extradition From Israel To Face Sex Charges
JERUSALEM — An Israeli court has halted extradition procedures against the former principal of a Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne who fled Australia amid claims she sexually abused some of her students. The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday halted the process after a state-appointed psychiatrist determined that Malka Leifer was unfit to stand trial. Extradition…
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Fast Forward Caregiver Wins Australia Visa Fight To Stay With 103-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor
A Philippine woman who has looked after a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Sydney for eight years has been granted a special visa which will allow her to return to Australia to continue caring for him. Lenie Fernandez appealed to the authorities to allow her to leave Australia to return to the Philippines to celebrate her…
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Fast Forward Australia’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor Makes Poignant Plea for Filipina Caregiver
Australia’s oldest Holocaust survivor is at the center of a spat between his Filipina caregiver and the Australian government, which has made it clear that if she leaves the country she will not be permitted to return. Elenita Fernandez, 43, was in Australia on a tourist visa when she began caring for Helen Roberts. Following…
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Fast Forward Australia Rabbi Says Synagogue Vandals ‘Damn Lucky’ To Escape
A Sydney rabbi whose synagogue was spray-painted with swastikas excoriated the vandals on Facebook. “You were damn lucky that I wasn’t there to catch you,” Rabbi Yossi Friedman wrote Monday in a post that began with the words “I am furious.” His Maroubra Synagogue was vandalized over the weekend with several swastikas. The Nazi symbol…
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