This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish life in Australia.
Australia
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Australia Irks Jews by Softening Law on Racial Hatred
Jewish leaders in Australia are fuming over the federal government’s proposed amendments to the nation’s race hate laws. The Liberal government unveiled Tuesday a draft of its proposed legislation to amend race hate laws that have existed for almost 20 years and have been used successfully by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to litigate…
-
Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Plans Landmark Visit Down Under
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first Israeli prime minister to visit Australia while in office. Media reports in Australia and Israel on Wednesday suggested that Netanyahu would spend one week in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne in mid-July following an invitation by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott when the pair met in Davos, Switzerland,…
-
Fast Forward Top Australian Chabad Rabbi Cleared of Raping Student
A senior Chabad rabbi in Australia who was accused of raping a student inside a synagogue in the 1970s will not be charged. Detectives in Melbourne confirmed Friday that they have closed an investigation into Rabbi Avrohom Glick, who was then deputy principal of Yeshivah College in Melbourne. Rabbi Glick, 67, vehemently denied allegations that…
-
Fast Forward Former Guard at Australian Chabad School Appeals Rape Conviction
A convicted pedophile who sexually molested students at a Chabad-Lubavitch school for boys in Melbourne launched an appeal. David Cyprys, a karate teacher and security guard at the college, was sentenced to jail for eight years in December for sexually assaulting nine boys at Yeshivah College in the 1980s and 1990s. He must serve five-and-a-half…
-
Fast Forward Liberal Australian Jews Slam Government ‘Backing’ of Israel Occupation
(Haaretz) — Julie Bishop, the foreign minister of Australia, in Israel last week for Ariel Sharon’s funeral, reiterated her call for the international community to refrain from branding the occupation “illegal” in order not to “prejudge” the outcome of final-status negotiations. It was a dramatic statement of intent by Canberra to side with Israel —…
-
Fast Forward Australia Chabad School Worker Gets 8 Years for Rape
A former security guard at a Chabad school in Melbourne was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping one boy and sexually abusing eight others. David Samuel Cyprys, 45, was sentenced Friday to a minimum five-and-a-half year non-parole period by County Court of Victoria judge Peter Wischusen. Cyprys worked as a security guard at…
-
Fast Forward Sex Abuse Victims Face Former Yeshiva Guard in Australian Court
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…
-
Fast Forward Melbourne Police Question Former Yeshiva Principal Over Sex Abuse
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…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
- 2
Holy Ground A millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
- 3
Fast Forward Chabad ‘let me down,’ suspect said, in hours before allegedly attacking their headquarters
- 4
Film & TV When Catherine O’Hara delivered the perfect Purim spiel
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Boston-area Jewish day school to close after 25 years, saying its model is ‘no longer sustainable’
-
Fast Forward France issues arrest warrants against 2 right-wing French-Israeli activists for ‘complicity in genocide’
-
Fast Forward In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL and investing more in Jewish identity
-
Opinion Amid standoff with US, would Iran really attack Israel?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
