Robert Goot to establish an antisemitism task force
May 28, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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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
March 25, 2024 by J-Wire News Service
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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
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
January 30, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Filed under Moriah, News
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
November 21, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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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
September 16, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under AIJAC, ECAJ, News, Zionist Federation of Australia
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
June 29, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under Anti-Defamation Commission, ECAJ, News, NSWJBD
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
March 11, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
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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
February 6, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
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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
January 31, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
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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
November 12, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
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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 J-Wire Staff
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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
Right to be a bigot
March 24, 2014 by Henry Benjamin
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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
March 18, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under ECAJ, News
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