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Julian Leeser addresses Sydney’s Central

J-Wire News Service — Sun, 05 May 2024 07:22:55 +0000

Federal Liberal MP Julian Leeser addressed the congregation during Sydney’s Central Synagogue Friday night service. The content of his speech defies editing, so it is published in full: “I have always been and will always be a proud public Jew. Fundamentally Judaism is a call to responsibility, to lead by example, to be a moral […]

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Google fixes antisemitic definition of ‘Jew’ following uproar

JNS — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 04:03:56 +0000

Google users who typed the word “Jew” in the search feature on Tuesday found that the top definition was an antisemitic stereotype. The search engine’s first listed definition of “Jew” was: “to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.” Further down in the search results were several conjugations of the word, as “jewed” […]

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Rescuing Afghanistan’s last Jew

David Isaac — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:45:59 +0000

David Isaac: The effort to help 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov resulted in getting out the Afghan women’s soccer team, a group of women judges, and 30 members of his neighbours’ families.

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