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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Muslim Leader Sticks by his “Gaza Holocaust” Statement

The chairman of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has openly stood by his comparison of the recent Gaza incursion to the Holocaust.  Read more

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