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  • Insight into Israel 7 Oct 2022
    AJN STAFF The Australian Jewish News October 7, 2022 The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) Susan and Isaac Wakil Israel Tour recently returned from a week in Israel. The delegation included a diverse group of young professional non-Jewish Australian leaders, from fields such as media, politics and government relations. Participants were given an insight into the complex geopolitical tensions ...
  • Call for ‘swift and heavy’ penalties 6 Oct 2022
    ABC News October 6, 2022   Representatives from the Jewish community say they hope action will be taken against more people filmed doing a fascist salute at the Australia Cup on Saturday night. Several fans of Sydney United 58 were accused of performing Nazi salutes and booing the Welcome to Country during the match against Macarthur FC. Football Australia has ...
  • Premier, Jewish leaders slam Nazi salutes 3 Oct 2022
    Lachlan Leeming and Anton Nilsson The Daily Telegraph October 3, 2022 Jewish leaders and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet have condemned the behaviour of Sydney soccer fans “in the strongest possible terms” after patches of supporters appeared to do Nazi salutes and jeered during the Welcome to Country at a packed match. More than 16,000 fans filled CommBank Stadium to ...
  • Pollies’ Rosh Hashanah greetings 21 Sep 2022
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  • ‘I fear that history is repeating itself’ 20 Sep 2022
    A Holocaust survivor who lived through five concentration camps before coming to Australia with the hope of a new life has revealed her own grandson was pulled...
  • Jewish community decries private school students’ ‘horrific’ antisemitic comments 20 Sep 2022
    The Jewish community has slammed horrific antisemitic bullying at a Sydney private school. Holocaust survivor Olga Horak said her then-teenage grandson was bullied for being Jewish at...