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Islamist preacher unable to ‘bury’ antiSemitism ruling

AAP — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:28:33 +0000

An Islamist preacher who used harmful racial stereotypes about Jewish people in sermons will be forced to tell the world of his antisemitism through prominent online posts. Sydney-based Al Madina Dawah Centre cleric Wissam Haddad was ordered by the Federal Court earlier in July not to repeat the perverse and racist tropes used in a […]

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Segal’s antisemitism report urges bold reforms across education, media and migration

Rob Klein — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:17:59 +0000

In response to a 300% surge in antisemitic incidents across Australia, a landmark action report was today launched with the support of the government, aimed at combating anti-Jewish hatred. This unprecedented move threatens to strip funding from schools, universities, cultural bodies, and charities that fail to take action against antisemitism. The Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat […]

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New Claims Conference position for Robert Goot

J-Wire Newsdesk — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:55:31 +0000

Robert Goot, deputy president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, has been invited to serve on the Claims Conference’s Ad Hoc Committee on Education Allocation Priorities. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is a nonprofit organization with offices in New York, Israel and Germany that secures material compensation for Holocaust […]

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Robert Goot to establish an antisemitism task force

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 28 May 2024 05:43:50 +0000

The World Jewish Congress has asked Sydney-based Robert Goot to establish a WJC task force on responses to antisemitism. The aim of the task force is to examine, monitor, assess, recommend, assist and coordinate responses to antisemitism amongst the affiliated communities, organisations and regions of the WJC. It will provide strategies and actions to assist […]

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

J-Wire News Service — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:30:43 +0000

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. The complaints allege that the speeches included derogatory generalisations about Jewish people, such as descriptions of them […]

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2022 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President’s Award goes to Vic Alhadeff

J-Wire — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:28:41 +0000

Vic Alhadeff spent 17 years steering The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies as its CEO. Yesterday, he became the recipient of the 2022 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President’s Award. Former president Robert Goot told the Board’s February plenum: “Vic has dedicated his life’s work to championing human rights, and since at least 1996, […]

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The family is growing

J-Wire — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:24:16 +0000

The Governing Board and Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress held a zoom with 190 participants during which a new community was added to to the WJC. Sydney-based Robert Goot is Chairman of the WJC Credentials Committee and moved the admission of the Jewish Council of the Emirates, the representative organisation of the Jewish […]

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Dear Mr Wolff

J-Wire Newsdesk — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:09:34 +0000

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...

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Robert Goot addresses the WJC governing board

J-Wire Newsdesk — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:48:38 +0000

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.

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Community welcomes Malcolm

J-Wire Staff — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:39:15 +0000

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.

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