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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 —…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 21% in Australia
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…
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Fast Forward Australia Shifts to Pro-Israel Stand at U.N.
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…
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Fast Forward Australian Sex Abuse Suspect Freed on $1M Bail
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…
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Fast Forward 3 More Australia Abuse Victims Come Forward as Scandal Spreads
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…
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