A Melbourne grandfather shocked by the recent story of Sydney’s Moriah College’s refusing a graduate’s child because the child’s grandmother had been converted to Judaism at the pluralistic Emanuel Synagogue wrote a letter to the school’s president. Former Moriah president Robert Goot responds...
The Immediate Past President of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Robert Goot highlighted the Constitutional mission of the World Jewish Congress“ to foster the unity and represent the interests of the Jewish people and to ensure the continuity and development of its religious, spiritual, cultural, and social heritage.
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.
There has been strong reaction both within the Jewish community and without to a tirade of antisemitic tweets against federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
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.
In 2014 more than 572,406 volunteers removed an estimated 15,708 tonnes of rubbish from 7,140 sites across Australia, including members of the Jewish community.
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.
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.
The Abbott Government is committed to repealing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. This sensitive topic was the subject of two important exchanges in parliament today...in the Senate, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis declared that "people have a right to be bigots" and in the House of Representatives Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: "Sometimes free speech will be speech which upsets people".
The President of the ECAJ Dr Danny Lamm has welcomed the announcement of the appointment of Robert Goot, to the Select Leadership Committee of the Claims Conference.
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.
