ECAJ lodges complaints with the Australian Human Rights Commission against hate preachers

March 25, 2024 by  
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The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has formally lodged complaints with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) against two Islamic preachers in western Sydney over speeches that were made late last year, recordings of which were uploaded online. Read more

The Voice: Albanese addresses faith leaders

October 5, 2023 by  
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has addressed the Faith Leaders Roundtable in Glebe on the upcoming The Voice referendum. Read more

Leifer: Who is saying what…and the timeline of a gruelling experience

August 24, 2023 by  
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Sisters sexually molested by their ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal Malka Leifer felt a wave of relief and validation as they learned their abuser would spend years behind bars. Read more

New $40 million program to improve security in faith-based locations

May 17, 2023 by  
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The Albanese Government will help protect faith-based places with a new $40 million grants program to improve security and safety. Read more

Leaders object to sales of Nazi memorabilia

November 9, 2022 by  
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An auctioneer specialising in military memorabilia has been criticised by Jewish organisations ahead of a sale of Nazi artefacts. Read more

L’Chaim – to Life: Peter Wertheim

October 27, 2022 by  
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Maurice Klein talks with Peter Wertheim, Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), about the recent National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) virulently anti-Israel, anti-Semitic resolution, along with the Albanese Labor Government, not recognising West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  PODCAST Read more

Neo-Nazi slogans deface ACT Senate candidate’s signs

May 2, 2022 by  
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Signs for Independent ACT candidate for the senate Kim Rubenstein have been defaced with antisemitic slogans. Read more

Deves accepts invite to Jewish Museum

April 28, 2022 by  
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Controversial Liberal candidate Katherine Deves has accepted an offer to visit the Sydney Jewish Museum following comments she made comparing her anti-transgender lobbying to opponents of the Holocaust. Read more

Australian Catholic University to introduce Ancient Israel Program

August 18, 2021 by  
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Australia’s only academic program dedicated to the archaeology, history and languages of Ancient Israel will be introduced at Australian Catholic University (ACU), offering units on Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Arts, Education and Biblical Studies degrees from 2022. Read more

The ECAJ condemns Taliban takeover

August 17, 2021 by  
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The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has deplored the forcible take-over of Afghanistan by the Taliban. Read more

Report from Bucharest

June 26, 2019 by  
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Senior professionals representing Jewish communities from more than 50 countries at the forum convened each year by the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Read more

Facebook plans external board to decide on questionable spots on its site

February 25, 2019 by  
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The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s co-CEO Peter Wertheim travelled to Singapore to participate in a two-day consultation on the establishment of an independent External Oversight Board proposed to empower to make final decisions about contested content appearing on Facebook. Read more

$2.2 million government grant for NSW security

October 10, 2018 by  
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The Liberal candidate for Wentworth in the upcoming by-election Dave Sharma visited the Community Security Group where he announced the federal government’s $2.2 million grant for The Council for Jewish Community Security in NSW.  Read more

Top Jewish professionals from more than 50 countries join WJC in solidarity mission to southern Israel

June 27, 2018 by  
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A World Jewish Congress delegation comprising senior professionals from more than 50 countries visited Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel on Tuesday on a solidarity mission with residents whose community has been terrorized by Hamas militants. Read more

Australian, British and South African leaders get together

June 25, 2018 by  
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During a break in the opening session of the National Directors Forum of the World Jewish Congress being held in Herzliya in Israel some leaders created a mini-conference over coffee. Read more

Australia not happy with US decision to quit UNHRC

June 20, 2018 by  
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Australia is disappointed by the decision of the United States to resign from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Read more

ECAJ makes landmark submission to parliamentary committee on freedom of religion

February 10, 2017 by  
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The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has sent a landmark 31-page submission, with 14 recommendations, to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the status of the human right to freedom of religion or belief in Australia and other countries currently being conducted by the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Read more

World’s Jewish leaders send condolences to France

November 17, 2015 by  
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Top Jewish community professionals from 40 countries world-wide have met in Lisbon  for a two-day conference organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and sent a combined message of condolence to the France’s Prime Minister. Read more

Community welcomes Malcolm

September 16, 2015 by  
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Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is no stranger to the country’s Jewish community given that his federal seat of Wentworth is home to the majority of Jews living in Sydney. Read more

Malcolm Fraser: Community messages

March 23, 2015 by  
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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

ECAJ AGM: Carr gets a mention

November 12, 2014 by  
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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

The case the ECAJ did not want to know about

July 16, 2014 by  
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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

Law against racial vilification steeped in Australian history…writes Peter Wertheim

December 19, 2013 by  
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Those who would dismiss Australia’s laws prohibiting racial vilification as a mere concession to latter-day political correctness and ‘the culture of complaint’ should remember that such laws were called for by a distinguished Supreme Court judge as far back as 1949. Read more

Amnesty Australia permitting ugly antisemitic comments on its Facebook page

December 16, 2013 by  
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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

Signing objections to Section 18 changes

November 28, 2013 by  
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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

Communities unite to face change of vilification laws

November 21, 2013 by  
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In the wake of Federal Attorney-General George Brandis’s announcement that the government  is planning to water down sections of the Racial Discrimination Act, ten highly significant ethnic communities have united to protest against the move. Read more

The ECAJ welcomes Kevin Rudd…and thanks Julia Gillard

June 30, 2013 by  
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The Executive Council of Australian Jewry offers its sincere congratulations to Kevin Rudd on being sworn in as Prime Minister. Read more

NSW Community Leaders and the Racial Vilification Law

April 8, 2013 by  
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Cloud over Golden Dawn

April 8, 2013 by  
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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

March 18, 2013 by  
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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

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