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Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Josh Frydenberg (via Twitter)
September 21, 2015, 7:48 pm
Australian minister sworn in with Hebrew Bible
With kippa on head, Josh Frydenberg takes oath of office on a Chumash given to him by former governor-general
By JTA
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (screen capture: YouTube/News TvN)
April 17, 2015, 9:49 am
Australian FM heads to Tehran but local Jews, Israel publicly unfazed
Advocacy groups don't protest Julie Bishop's historic trip, merely urging her to condemn Iran's anti-Israel agitation and support for terrorism
By Raphael Ahren
Anti-Israel rally in Sydney, Australia, July 20, 2014. (courtesy)
November 11, 2014, 10:49 pm
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia up by a third
Jewish umbrella group says 312 attacks recorded, some with physical violence, triggered in part by summer's Israel-Hamas war
By JTA
A man waves a Palestinian flag waves near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, near Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
April 7, 2014, 11:37 pm
Australia opposition chief: ‘Some’ settlement activity illegal
In not branding all West Bank construction off-limits, Labor's Bill Shorten draws ire from colleagues, applause from Jewish groups
By Raphael Ahren
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
January 24, 2014, 3:13 pm
Australian FM’s settlement empathy prompts furious dispute
Julie Bishop's refusal in Times of Israel interview to brand settlements as illegal provokes bitter row between PLO and Australian Jewish leaders
By Raphael Ahren
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (photo credit: CC BY Australian Civil-Military Centre, Flickr)
June 27, 2013, 11:02 am
Rudd returning as head of Australian ruling party
Replaces Gillard, a 'staunch supporter' of Israel
Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2013, 10:05 pm
Australian Jewish groups admonish BDS supporters
At the urge of Zionist Council, Melbourne Jewry’s umbrella organization votes to denounce boycott of West Bank goods
Left to right, Raoul Wallenberg at a young age; at age 32 with an aged-processed photo in the smaller box; and an FBI sketch of how Wallenberg may have looked in the 1980s. (Photo credit: courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Horace Heafne and The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation/JTA)
May 7, 2013, 10:26 am
Raoul Wallenberg named Australia’s first honorary citizen
Prime Minister Gillard addresses official ceremony in Canberra
April 25, 2013, 10:41 am
Australia pledges to combat anti-Semitism
Prime Minister Julia Gillard signs London declaration previously adopted by 40 countries
From the WebApril 9, 2013, 11:53 am
Election provisions ‘not perfect’
Australian Jewish News: Early voting facilities to be opened in areas with high Jewish populations before Yom Kippur elections
April 8, 2013, 9:53 am
Facebook removes anti-Jewish page
Action in response to formal complaint by Executive Council of Australian Jewry; 15 more cases pending
April 5, 2013, 3:44 pm
Pro-BDS Aussie Jewish group labelled ‘repugnant’
Umbrella body considers booting the Australian Jewish Democratic Society for its website 'Don’t Buy Settlements Products'
Tombstone of Ben Zygier at Chevra Kadisha Jewish Cemetery in Melbourne, Australia (photo credit: AP/Andrew Brownbill)
February 19, 2013, 9:00 am
Breaking silence, Zygier’s relatives urge Israel to ‘tell us what happened’
Family member of jailed Mossad agent Ben Zygier tells Yedioth Ahronoth parents and brother support probe into suicide
By Gabe Fisher
January 4, 2013, 6:47 pm
Mufti of Australia slammed for meeting with Hamas in Gaza
Australian government says it will probe allegations of unlawful behavior during Ibrahim Salem's visit
December 17, 2012, 5:45 pm
Holocaust to be part of Australia’s national curriculum
New South Wales will be the first to teach the subject
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