The sex abuse victims of an Orthodox man contracted to a Chabad-Lubavitch school in Melbourne confronted their attacker in court. David Samuel Cyprys, a former security guard at Yeshivah College in Melbourne, appeared in court Monday for a pre-sentencing hearing. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20 for raping one child and molesting…
Australian police have questioned the former principal of a haredi Orthodox Jewish boys’ school in Melbourne over allegations of decades-old child sex abuse. Rabbi Avrohom Glick, a senior official inside the Chabad-Lubavitch community, made a voluntary statement to police and was released, his lawyer said Monday. The allegations are understood to date back to the…
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia rose 21 percent in the last year and are the second highest on record, according to an annual report. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s annual “Report on Anti-Semitism in Australia” – tabled at Sunday’s annual general meeting in Melbourne – revealed 657 reports of racist violence against Jewish Australians and…
Australia’s new government has shifted its voting pattern at the United Nations, refusing to support one-sided anti-Israel resolutions. Australia’s delegate at the U.N. abstained from two votes earlier this month at the General Assembly: one condemning the expansion of Jewish settlements and another calling for the Geneva Convention to apply in the West Bank and…
An Australian-born man accused of sexually molesting boys while associated with the Chabad headquarters in Sydney is free to return to his family in America after posting $1 million bail. Daniel (Gug) Hayman faced a local court in Sydney on Wednesday, but Magistrate Clare Farnan allowed him to return to Los Angeles after his father…
Three more people have alleged they were victims of child sexual abuse in Melbourne as the scandal that has embroiled the Jewish community since 2011 continues to deepen. The three Jews – who have not been named – claimed they were abused at children’s homes run by a Jewish welfare organization in the 1960s. Jewish…
An Australian-born man who resides in the United States was charged with two counts of indecent assault against two children at a Sydney Chabad center in the 1980s. Daniel (Gug) Hayman, who now lives in Los Angeles, was back in Sydney for the funeral of his mother last week. The 49-year-old was arrested Monday for…
An Israel-based group launched legal action against an Australian academic who they claim breached racial vilification laws by boycotting Israeli academics. Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, filed the legal suit in the Federal Court of Australia this week against Jake Lynch, the director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University…
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