Yom Ha’azmaut celebrated in Sydney

More than 600 people have joined in a belated celebration of Israel’s 67th birthday in Sydney at which NSW Premier Mike Baird was guest of honour. Read more

Watch your rhetoric

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has stated its position on the use of rhetoric invoking the Nazi Party. Read more

Malcolm Fraser: Community messages

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry and The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council have issued statements following the death of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Read more

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin: NORA and the K-A

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin is the interim president of the New Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia and the vice-president of the NSW Kashrut Authority…a situation which The Executive Council of Australian Jewry finds questionable. Read more

Feldman out on a limb

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry had distanced the community from Rabbi Yosef Feldman, the spiritual head of the Southern Sydney Synagogue who has completed giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse  hearing in Melbourne. Read more

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse : community reaction

Lay and religious leadership have reacted strongly to the hearings in Melbourne this week at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse  on matters pertaining to the Yeshiva in Sydney and the Yeshivah in Melbourne. Read more

ECAJ AGM: Carr gets a mention

President of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Robert Goot made reference to Foreign Minister Bob Carr  in Julia Gillard’s former Labor Australian government. Read more

Labor MP’s support of BDS an embarrassment…write Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin

Perhaps it was the pig’s head placed in the kosher section of a Johannesburg Woolworths by anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) “activists” last week. Read more

Antisemitism in Australia – The Vital Statistics

The 2014 report on antisemitism in Australia clearly shows a shift from the extremes to the mainstream community fuelled by social media and the failure of popular media to address incidents with urgency thereby giving credence to virulently antisemitic postings left unmoderated on major websites. Read more

Films, chants, and antisemitism – the protest at Verona…writes Julie Nathan

The protest against the Israeli Film Festival went ahead in Sydney last Thursday evening, despite the preceding court drama. Read more

Attacking the Souls of a People: The Global Resurgence of Anti-Semitism

On July 25, as Israel’s war with Hamas raged, my niece, who is nearly 5 years of age, arrived at her Jewish day school in Perth to find the words “Zionist scum” daubed on the outer walls of the school. Read more

The case the ECAJ did not want to know about

The case brought by Israeli advocacy group Shurat Hadin against University of Sydney associate Professor Jake Lynch has been dropped…a case involving BDS from which The Executive Council of Australian Jewry distanced itself. Read more

Section 18C supporters’ club

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has welcomed political figures and various community organisation who seek to preserve the rights of those who need to culturally defend themselves. Read more

MPs break Liberal ranks over Section18C

Coalition MPs, Craig Laundy, the Federal Member for Reid, and Ken Wyatt, the Federal Member for Hasluck, have come out publicly to oppose any changes to sections of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) which prohibit public conduct that is reasonably likely to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate” a person or groups because of their skin colour or national or ethnic origin. Read more

Anti-Semitic graffiti an “isolated incident”

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide has told The Executive Council of Australian Jewry that graffiti displayed on the university’s campus last week appears to be an isolated incident. Read more

Amnesty Australia permitting ugly antisemitic comments on its Facebook page

Amnesty International Australia has been accused of allowing its Facebook page athttps://www.facebook.com/AmnestyOz/posts/10153527406600632 to be used as a medium for grossly racist and bigoted posted comments. Read more

AUJS backs ECAJ on Racial Discrimination Act issue

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has backed the Executive Council of Australian Jewry in calling on the Federal Government to abandon its plans to repeal or weaken Australia’s race hate laws. Read more

Signing objections to Section 18 changes

A group representing multicultural communities in NSW has met at the NSW Parliament to sign a single document expressing objection to changes to the Race Discrimination Act. Read more

Singh visits Canberra

The ECAJ welcomes Kevin Rudd…and thanks Julia Gillard

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry offers its sincere congratulations to Kevin Rudd on being sworn in as Prime Minister. Read more

Hezbollah sleeper cells in Australia?

Jewish leaders have renewed calls to ban Hezbollah’s political wing amid revelations that the Shi’ite organisation may have sleeper cells operating in Australia. Read more

Australian Jewry offers condolences

The Australian Jewish community has proffered condolences to the United States following fatal bombings in Boston. Read more

Lunch with Tony Abbott…what was on the menu?

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has addressed a luncheon with Jewish leaders in Sydney. Read more

Cloud over Golden Dawn

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has spoken out against the reported formation of an Australian branch of a Greek political party founded by a Holocaust denier. Read more

Community briefs on Sexual Abuse Royal Commission

The Executive Director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim and Immediate Past President, Robert Goot, have met with the Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Read more

Sad loss for the Melbourne community

Melbourne community stalwart Les Erdi has passed away. Read more

…and Manny Waks responds

Following the publication of the letter to the ECAJ’s letter to the Victorian Government Inquiry into Handling of Child Abuse, Manny Waks, himself an alleged victim of sexual abuse who made a submission to the Inquiry, responds… Read more

Organisations v Community

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has written to the Victorian Government Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and other non-Government Organisations criticising a submission claiming that sections of the Jewish community may have been at fault. Read more

Lamm at the Helm

Dr Danny Lamm is the new president of the The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Read more

Lunch with Professor Inbar

Professor Efraim Inbar is a professor of political studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University and is considered to be the foremost strategic analyst in Israel. He spoke yesterday to members of Sydney’s media
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