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Fast Forward Australia’s New Policy on Asylum Seekers Riles Jewish Community
The Labor government’s new policy of banishing asylum seekers who arrive here by sea has left some Jews fuming, many of them survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants who also arrived here as boat people. Like Israel, Australia holds asylum seekers, most of them from Africa, in detention centers. Australia’s centers are on the…
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Fast Forward Australian PM Moves Elections So No Conflict with Yom Kippur
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called new elections for September 7, avoiding a clash with Yom Kippur. Before Julia Gillard was ousted in late June from the top job, she had declared September 14 – Yom Kippur – as the date of the election. But soon after Rudd replaced her he said the clash…
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Fast Forward Bulgaria Bomb Suspect Jetted In From Lebanon
A man suspected of organising a bus bombing in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas last year flew to Lebanon two days before the attack that killed five Israelis and their driver, Polish news website tvn24.pl reported. Bulgaria said last month it believed the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah was behind the July 18, 2012,…
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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva Teacher David Kramer Gets 3 Years for Australia Sex Abuse
David Kramer, a former teacher at the Yeshivah College day school in Melbourne, Australia, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting four students. Kramer, however, could leave prison after a little more than three months because he has been in prison while awaiting his sentence, according to Australian…
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Fast Forward Australia Jews Furious at Maccabiah Tragedy ‘Disgrace’
Australian Jews scored the Maccabi movement for continuing to employ officials responsible for the deaths of four Australians at the 1997 Maccabiah Games. As this year’s games launched in Israel this week, Peter Wertheim, of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said: “It is hard to believe that a Jewish organization would behave with such…
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Fast Forward Principal Helped Confessed Yeshiva Molester David Kramer Flee Australia
An American-born teacher who pleaded guilty to child molestation at a Jewish school in Melbourne was assisted in fleeing to Israel by his employer. In a pre-sentencing hearing at the County Court of Victoria Wednesday, the prosecution argued that David Kramer should receive the maximum sentence of five years in prison when he is sentenced…
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Fast Forward Survivors Seethe at ‘Disgraceful’ Embrace for Maccabiah Disaster Officials
Sixteen years after the darkest chapter in Maccabiah history, some of the survivors of the 1997 bridge disaster are seething that officials found criminally responsible for the deaths of four Australians still continue to operate inside the Maccabi movement. Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki, and Warren Zines died after a makeshift bridge over the…
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Israel News What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Israel’s Prisoner X2
Israelis discovered early this month, to their surprise, that in one of its prisons there is a second Prisoner X held in complete secrecy. He is been dubbed X2 in the Israeli media. The various security agencies have already started accusing one another of leaking the case. The sheer existence of Prisoner X2 was considered…
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