Malka Leifer departs Israel for Australia to face 74 counts of child sexual abuse in Victoria
Leifer, who faced more than 70 extradition hearings, is accused of assaulting female students at Adass Israel girls school in Melbourne
Dassi Erlich, an alleged victim of Leifer who has led the campaign to have her former principal face legal proceedings in Australia, tweeted on Monday evening ‘Leifer is on the way back to Australia’. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images
Dassi Erlich, an alleged victim of Leifer who has led the campaign to have her former principal face legal proceedings in Australia, tweeted on Monday evening ‘Leifer is on the way back to Australia’. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images
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Joe Biden, joined by Kamala Harris, speaks on November 9, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
A BIDEN administration will not mean a return to the foreign policy of the Obama era, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim has suggested.
The inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris was scheduled to take place at 4am this morning (Thursday) AEDT, making him the 46th President of the United States.
Biden succeeds Donald Trump, whose administration claimed some significant foreign policy achievements, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and presiding over the Abraham Accords which saw Israel normalise ties with several Arab nations.
Holly Huffnagle, the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) US director for combatting antisemitism.
THERE are seven factors that help explain a recent surge in antisemitism in the United States, according to Holly Huffnagle, the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) US director for combatting antisemitism.
A recent survey conducted by the AJC on attitudes to antisemitism found that 88 per cent of American Jewish adults believe antisemitism is a problem in the US, compared to 63 per cent of the general public. More than one in three US Jews surveyed said they had been the targets of antisemitism in the past five years.
The flags of Israel and Morocco.
“THIS remarkable period of history has seen yet another country make the decision not to hold back its own people in servitude to a failed ideology of the past.”
That is how Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler reacted to news last week that Israel and Morocco have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations, marking the fourth Arab–Israel agreement in four months.
Praising King Mohammed of Morocco’s “historic decision” to make peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the relationship of the peoples of both countries “has long been characterised by sympathy, respect, fondness and love”.