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Fast Forward Australian City Bans New Synagogue Over Possible Terror Threats
(JTA) — An Australian court has upheld a municipal council’s decision to ban the construction of a synagogue in suburban Sydney because it could become the target of a terrorist attack. The group that wants to build the synagogue near Bondi Beach called Wednesday’s ruling by the Land and Environment Court “rewarding terrorism.” The Waverley…
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Fast Forward Sydney Jewish Museum Evacuated After Bomb Threat
SYDNEY (JTA) — The Sydney Jewish Museum was evacuated following a bomb threat. The bomb threat was received by museum staff on Tuesday. All staff at the neighboring building housing the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, Jewish Communal Appeal and United Israel Appeal also were evacuated. Police and security officials searched the buildings…
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Fast Forward Australia Prime Minister Makes Suprise Synagogue Visit
SYDNEY (JTA) — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull paid an unexpected visit to Sydney’s Central Synagogue to join its Friday night service and menorah lighting, telling the congregation that Australia stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel. Turnbull called the synagogue’s rabbi, Levi Wolff, Friday afternoon in honor of Hanukkah. During the call, Wolff, invited Turnbull to attend…
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Fast Forward Australia Rabbi Says Synagogue Vandals ‘Damn Lucky’ To Escape
A Sydney rabbi whose synagogue was spray-painted with swastikas excoriated the vandals on Facebook. “You were damn lucky that I wasn’t there to catch you,” Rabbi Yossi Friedman wrote Monday in a post that began with the words “I am furious.” His Maroubra Synagogue was vandalized over the weekend with several swastikas. The Nazi symbol…
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Fast Forward Queen’s Australia Representative Visits Sydney’s Great Synagogue
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Australia, attended a Shabbat service last at Sydney’s Great Synagogue with his wife. The synagogue’s Chief Minister Rabbi Benjamin Elton met the couple at the synagogue’s gates. The conregation’s roots date back to 1828, 40 years after British colonists first came to Australia. “Their Excellencies had…
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Fast Forward Australian Professor Waves Cash in Jewish Colleague’s Face — Cleared of Anti-Semitism
An Australian university has cleared one of its professors of suspected anti-Semitic behavior following a protest that turned ugly, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Sunday. The University of Sydney warned associate professor Jake Lynch – who waved money in the face of a Jewish woman at the protest – that his conduct did not “constitute…
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Fast Forward Sydney Chabad Rabbi Stripped of Post Over Child Sex Abuse Scandal
A senior Chabad rabbi was delisted as an emissary from the New York-based organization as the fallout continues from Australia’s Royal Commission into the child sex abuse scandal. Rabbi Yosef Feldman, a former director of Sydney’s Yeshivah Center, which houses the headquarters of Chabad there, was delisted last week after his controversial comments to the…
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Fast Forward Menorah Honoring Terror Victims Erected in Sydney
Chabad set up a menorah in downtown Sydney as a tribute to the victims of a terrorist attack. The 32-foot menorah was erected late Thursday night in downtown Sydney, just hours after Chabad cancelled its annual candle-lighting ceremony in the wake of the terror attack that killed ended with three people, including the assailant, killed….
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