New Claims Conference position for Robert Goot

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. Read more

Robert Goot to establish an antisemitism task force

The World Jewish Congress has asked Sydney-based Robert Goot to establish a WJC task force on responses to antisemitism. Read more

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

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

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

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. Read more

The family is growing

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. Read more

Dear Mr Wolff

Melbourne grandfather David Wolff, 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… Read more

Robert Goot addresses the WJC governing board

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. Read more

Community welcomes Malcolm

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

Outrage at antisemitic attacks on Frydenberg

There has been strong reaction both within the Jewish community and without to a tirade of antisemitic tweets against federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Read more

Rabbi Selwyn Franklin: NORA and the K-A

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. Read more

Member of the Jewish community makes top 100 in The Algemeiner

President of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry Robert Goot has been named by publication The Algemeiner as one of the top 100 people who influenced Jewish life in 2014. Read more

25th anniversary of Clean-up Australia Day

In 2014 more than 572,406 volunteers including members of the Jewish community. removed an estimated 15,708 tonnes of rubbish from 7,140 sites across Australia,  Read more

ECAJ AGM: Carr gets a mention

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

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

Right to be a bigot

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”. Read more

Goot on Claims Conference team

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. Read more

Representing Australian Jewry globally

Two members of the Australian Jewish community have been appointed vice-presidents of the World Jewish Congress 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