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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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Fast Forward 3 Australian Chabad Rabbis Resign After Damaging Testimony About Child Abuse
Three senior Orthodox rabbis have resigned from their posts in the wake of Australia’s Royal Commission into the child sex abuse scandal at two Chabad institutions. On Monday, Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, president of the Organization of Rabbis of Australasia, resigned from several posts after a text message was revealed during the commission’s hearings last…
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Fast Forward Australia Chabad Rabbi Quits After ‘Repugnant’ Sex Abuse Testimony to Commisision
A senior rabbi resigned as a director of Chabad’s Yeshiva Center in Sydney following comments he made at the Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal inside two Chabad institutions in Australia. Rabbi Yossi Feldman, a son of the chief rabbi of Chabad in Sydney, stood down from the board of management of the…
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News Australian Probe Takes Aim at Chabad School Abuse
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Melbourne and Sydney is under the spotlight as an Australian Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal began hearings. The government-sponsored inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, which began in 2013, has allocated two weeks to interrogate victims and officials of the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne and its…
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Fast Forward Australia Cartoon on Gaza Went Over the Line
An Australian press organization has judged that a cartoon published in The Sydney Morning Herald violated press Standards of Practice by the way it linked symbols of the Jewish faith to criticism of Israel. The adjudication, issued by the Australian Press Council, concerned a cartoon drawn by Glen Le Lievre and published by the Morning…
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Fast Forward Australia Menorah-Lighting Scrapped After Sydney Terror Drama
The public Hanukkah candle lighting at Sydney’s Martin Place was canceled for the first time in 30 years following the terror attack that killed two Australians. Chabad, which has erected a giant 33-foot Hanukkah menorah in downtown Sydney for the past three decades, issued a statement Thursday, saying: “Due to the very recent terror attack…
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Fast Forward Australia Commission To Probe Chabad Sex Abuse Scandal
An Australian Royal Commission will investigate how rabbis and senior leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Sydney and Melbourne handled the child sex abuse scandal. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse confirmed this week that Chabad in Sydney and Melbourne will be the focus of a public hearing, starting Feb. 2…
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Opinion Why Jews Should Ride With Muslims in Sydney
People run with hands up from the Lindt Cafe during a hostage standoff in Sydney, Australia / Getty Images My ears perked up when I heard the news about a potential terror attack at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney. “Potential” terror attack, because for a while the nature of the situation was unclear. And…
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