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Fast Forward Australian Professor Jake Lynch Sued Over Boycott Israel Stand
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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Fast Forward Australian Rabbi Chaim Herzog Stripped of Chabad Leadership Role
A controversial Chabad rabbi in Melbourne has been stripped of his official endorsement following a long-running turf war that involved police and threatened legal action. Rabbi Chaim Herzog, who has run the Chabad House of Melbourne CBD in the city’s downtown since 1998, was officially removed from his position last week by Rabbi Chaim Tzvi…
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Fast Forward 5 Australian Jews Hurt in ‘Anti-Semitic’ Brawl
Five people were hospitalized in Sydney on Saturday after a brawl was sparked by anti-Semitic insults, Australian media reported. According to The Australian newspaper, a group of about eight young men, some teenagers, began yelling “derogatory comments” shortly after midnight at the adults, who, according to ABC news, were on their way home from synagogue…
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Fast Forward Australian Jews Flee for Lives as Wildfires Rage
The wild bushfires ravaging Australia forced members of the Jewish community to evacuate their homes. David Lake, a traditional Sephardic Jew, lost his home in the blaze at the Blue Mountains, one hour’s drive west of Sydney. He fled his home on Monday. The fires began on Oct. 16, reportedly sparked by explosives training on…
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Fast Forward Nepal Chabad Rabbi Prevents Cremation of Jewish Accident Victim
A Chabad rabbi in Nepal averted the cremation of a 32-year-old Australian woman who died in a road accident. Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz told JTA by phone from Kathmandu Wednesday that he had just recovered the body of the former student of Beth Rivkah College in Melbourne. He said he was flown by helicopter from Kathmandu…
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Fast Forward Australian Police Close In on Suspects in 1982 Hakoah Club Terror Bombing
Three decades after twin bombings rocked the Israeli Consulate and a Jewish social club in Sydney, Australian detectives believe they are closing in on the suspected perpetrators of the attacks that took place just two days before Christmas in 1982. No one was killed in the blasts at the consulate and the Hakoah Club, an…
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Fast Forward Australian Chabad Yeshiva Guard Found Guilty of Raping Boy
A former security guard at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne was convicted of child rape and molestation. David Cyprys, 44, was a contract worker for Yeshivah College, a Chabad-run boys’ school, when he abused nine boys in the 1980s and early 1990s. A jury at the County Court of Victoria found him guilty last…
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Fast Forward Joshua Frydenberg, Jewish Rising Star, Joins New Australian Government
The sole Jewish member of the new Australian government was appointed to a junior minister position. Joshua Frydenberg was promoted to parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister on Monday by the newly elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Abbott’s Liberal Party won the Sept. 7 election in a landslide over the Labor Party, ending its six-year…
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