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Fast Forward Australian man arrested after allegedly throwing bacon during antisemitic hate crime
The local mayor said the incident stoked fear in local Jews already reeling from a December synagogue arson
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Fast Forward Police in Australia seize explosives they say may have been intended to kill Jews
Australian authorities say they are investigating links to overseas actors as they crack down on antisemitic violence
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Fast Forward 2 synagogues in Sydney graffitied with swastikas
Police are investigating the attacks, which come at a time of heightened antisemitism in Australia
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Fast Forward Melbourne, Australia, synagogue set ablaze in suspected arson attack
The alleged attack occurred as the Australian Jewish community reported a fourfold increase in antisemitic incidents
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Fast Forward Australia saw antisemitic incidents quadruple after Oct. 7, Jewish group reports
The country was home to a number of high-profile incidents, including a mass doxxing that resulted in a threat against a Jewish child
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Fast Forward Jewish Australian race walker Jemima Montag wins second bronze medal in Paris
Montag captured bronze in the inaugural marathon mixed relay, days after placing third in the 20-kilometer race walk
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Fast Forward Australian canoeists Jessica and Noemie Fox join rare company as Jewish siblings to win Olympic gold medals
The Fox sisters each won gold in canoe slalom events in Paris, joining a small group of Jewish siblings to medal at the same Olympics
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News Jews felt Australia was a safe and boundless space. Then the Israel-Hamas war began, and everything changed
A community known for its disproportionate number of descendants of Holocaust sees change in the land they love, if only for being so far removed from the hatreds that plagued their forebears
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