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Fast Forward Australian Beaten for Wearing IDF T-Shirt
A Melbourne, Australia man wearing an IDF t-shirt said two Arabic-speaking men assaulted him on the street. Zachary Gomo told JTA he was walking to a shop around 10 P.M. in a Jewish neighborhood on Thursday night wearing a T-shirt from his service in the Israel Defense Forces when he claims he was set upon…
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Fast Forward Israel Group Drops Suit Against Pro-Boycott Professor in Australia
An Israeli legal group abandoned its racial discrimination case against an academic in Sydney over his support for the boycott of Israel. Shurat HaDin-the Israel Law Center will withdraw its case against Jake Lynch, the director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, according to The Australian newspaper. The…
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Fast Forward Australian Acquitted in Bondi Beach Anti-Semitic Attack
A Sydney man whom police accused of participating in a brutal anti-Semitic attack last year was acquitted for lack of evidence. Robert Clifford, 26, was charged last October with assault and possessing a knife. Police said he attacked five Orthodox Jews as they walked home from a Shabbat dinner near Bondi Beach. One of the…
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Fast Forward Austalian Chabad Child Abuser Denied Appeal — Faces 5 Years in Prison
An Orthodox Australian Jew jailed for child sexual abuse offenses had his application for appeal rejected. David Samuel Cyprys was jailed last December for eight years for multiple sex crimes against nine boys, including several counts of rape against one former student. Cyprys, who was employed as security guard at the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne,…
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Fast Forward Convicted Australian Chabad Camp Molester Gets Suspended Sentence
A dual Australian-American citizen avoided prison time in the assault of a teenage boy at a Chabad-run camp in the 1980s. Daniel “Gug” Hayman, who lives in Los Angeles, was given a 19-month suspended sentence in Sydney on Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty in May to indecently assaulting the 14-year-old in the woods at Camp…
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Fast Forward Holocaust-Denying Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson Denied Australia Visa
Australia canceled the visa of a British Catholic bishop who has denied that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia this month but his visa was canceled this week, the Australian Jewish News reported. The Australian Jewish News said it had contacted the Department of Immigration…
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Fast Forward Aussie Chabad Camp Director Guilty of Child Abuse
A Jewish man living in America pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a child while he was volunteering at a Chabad-run camp in Australia in the 1980s. Daniel “Gug” Hayman, a former director of the Yeshiva Center, the headquarters of Chabad in Sydney, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of indecent assault. It was the…
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News A Trek to (Jewish) Tasmania
Koala bears, kangaroos, blockbuster beaches, food festivals, mouthwatering honey and exceptional wine: customary expectations on a visit to Tasmania — but Jews? On Australia’s largest island, a triangular land of exotic woods and quaint cities, I encountered a history of remarkable Jewish life and the two oldest synagogues in Australia, each dating from 1845. The…
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