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News Manny Waks Travels Around World To Confront His Alleged Abuser
Manny Waks stands on a street corner in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He drank so much the night before that he doesn’t remember what time he got back to his hotel room. His voice is hoarse and his eyes are hidden behind a pair of black sunglasses. Waks is not sure why he got so wasted,…
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Fast Forward Australian Girls School Principal on Trial for Sex Abuse
The former principal of a haredi Orthodox girls’ school in Melbourne who was extradited from Israel last year is on trial for allegedly sexually abusing a former student. The trial began Tuesday in Australian Supreme Court against former principal Malka Leifer. The mother of eight ran the Adass Israel girls’ school from 2001 to 2008,…
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Fast Forward Australian Professor Waves Cash in Jewish Colleague’s Face — Cleared of Anti-Semitism
An Australian university has cleared one of its professors of suspected anti-Semitic behavior following a protest that turned ugly, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Sunday. The University of Sydney warned associate professor Jake Lynch – who waved money in the face of a Jewish woman at the protest – that his conduct did not “constitute…
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Fast Forward Australia Kosher Stamp Dropped Amid Halal Questions
A number of companies in Australia have removed kosher certification symbols from their packaging due to pushback over halal certification. Rumors that money raised from halal certification helps fund terrorism are spurring the pushback, the general manager of the Kosher Australia certification, Yankel Wajsbort, told the Australian Jewish Times, and companies have called the Victorian-based…
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Fast Forward Australian Premier Tony Abbott Sorry for ‘Goebbels’ Remark
Australia’s prime minister publicly apologized for comparing the country’s opposition leader to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On Thursday, Tony Abbott said in a parliament meeting that Labor Party leader Bill Shorten was the “Dr. Goebbels of economic policy.” Abbott apologized on a radio interview on Friday. “I accept that in the context of history…
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Fast Forward Aussie Lawmaker Tossed Over ‘Goebbels’ Flap
A Jewish lawmaker was thrown out of Australia’s Parliament after protesting Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s description of the opposition leader as the “Dr. Goebbels of economic policy.” Joseph Goebbels was the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany. Opposition Labor Party lawmaker Mark Dreyfus, one of three Jewish lawmakers in Parliament, jumped up to protest Abbott’s choice…
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Fast Forward Australian Chabad Leaders Quit Over Child Sex Abuse Scandal
Four senior officials with Chabad’s headquarters in Melbourne stepped down two days after child sex-abuse victims called for the resignations of all members of management. The Yeshivah Centre confirmed this week that Chaim New, Yirmi Loebenstein and Sue Susskind had resigned from the committee of management, in addition to the chairman, Don Wolf. “We will…
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Fast Forward 400 Attend Australia Limmud FSU Conference
About 400 people attended Australia’s first Limmud conference tailored especially for Russian-speaking Jews. The events held last week in Sydney and near Melbourne were organized by the local branch of Limmud FSU, a network of groups that uses the concept of Limmud conferences to connect communities of Russian-speaking Jews on four continents. Chaim Chesler, a…
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