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Fast Forward Australia Abuse Victim’s Brother Tussles With Chabad Rabbi in Synagogue
A senior Australian Orthodox rabbi had his glasses ripped from his face during a synagogue altercation with a relative of a prominent advocate for sex abuse victims. Rabbi Zvi Telsner, the spiritual leader of the Yeshivah Center, which houses the city’s Chabad headquarters, offered festive greetings to Chaim Waks at the end of the Shavuot…
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Fast Forward American Teacher David Kramer Convicted of 6 Abuse Counts at Australian Chabad Yeshiva
An American Jew pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault against students at an Orthodox boys school in Melbourne. David Kramer, 52, pleaded guilty to five charges of indecent assault via video link Friday at Melbourne Magistrates Court. He also pleaded guilty to one count of an indecent act with a minor; six of the…
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Fast Forward Australia Demands Answers on Prisoner X Mossad Spy Case From Israel
Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Monday called for a full explanation from Israel on the circumstances leading up to the death of Australian-born alleged Mossad agent Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X, in an Israeli prison in 2010. Speaking to reporters in Washington at the end of a week-long visit to the U.S., Carr…
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Fast Forward Prisoner X Bungled Hezbollah Double Agent Spy Drama: Reports
A reputed Israeli spy known as Prisoner X who died in a jail in Israel in 2010 had been arrested after a bungled and unauthorised bid to recruit a double agent with links to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Australian newspapers reported on Monday. The man, Ben Zygier, was arrested in early 2010 and was held in secret…
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Fast Forward Prisoner X Suspected of Handing Israeli Agents to Hezbollah: Report
Alleged Mossad agent Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X before committing suicide while jailed solitary confinement, handed Hezbollah sensitive information that led to the arrest of Lebanese agents in Israel’s service, according to previews of an expose to be released by Der Spiegel on Monday. The German news weekly alleges that before his death in…
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Fast Forward Manny Waks, Abused as Teenager, Has Become Face of Australia Child Sex Scandal
Menachem (Manny) Waks was on a leadership training program in Israel in June 2011 when he made a decision that would radically change his life. Flicking through Melbourne’s The Age newspaper on his laptop one morning, he spotted an article about David Kramer, who was convicted of pedophilia in Missouri in 2008 and now was…
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Fast Forward Did Prisoner X Use Australian Passport To Carry Out Mossad Hit?
Australia has no evidence that an emigrant to Israel who died in an Israeli jail in 2010, had been involved in the assassination of a Hamas arms procurer in Dubai, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Wednesday. Carr said Ben Zygier had worked for the Israeli government when he was arrested, but stopped short of…
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Opinion Prisoner X Case Signals Moment of Crisis for Israel and Jewish Diaspora
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky probably thought he was stating the obvious when he welcomed his board of governors to Jerusalem on February 17 with a bromide about Israel-Diaspora solidarity. “It is increasingly clear,” said the chairman, still best known for his years in a Soviet prison, “that world Jewry depends on Israel and Israel…
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