Posted May 20, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Courage to Care Opening great success MELBOURNE, 15 May – More than 70 guests attended the official opening of the Courage to Care, in Berwick, an outer Melbourne suburb, exhibition program at St Margaret’s School Berwick, and the positive energy generated was contagious. Keynote speaker Chris Christoforou, Western [...]
Posted 13 May 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Rabbi ignored warnings MELBOURNE, 9 May – One of Australia’s leading rabbis told a man whose son had been allegedly sexually abused by a youth group leader at a Melbourne Jewish school that the child would not need counselling because he was under eight years old, court [...]
A LOOK BACK OVER MY SHOULDER By Garry Fabian Editor’s Note: In 1936 Garry Fabian’s family fled Germany to Czechoslovakia, hoping to escape Nazi persecution, but in vain. By 1942 Garry, aged eight, was interned in Theresienstadt. He was to spend till May 1945 in that ‘model’ concentration camp and was one of only about [...]
Posted May 6, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Assurance about college future SYDNEY, 3 May – Yeshiva College this week reassured the community it was on a sound financial footing, following claims that it was behind on payments to some of its teachers. It’s understood that some members of staff hadn’t been paid their full [...]
Posted April 28, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Changes at ADCMELBOURNE, 25 April – After four years at the helm of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), current executive director Deborah Stone is leaving her post to pursue a career in journalism. Stone said she was proud of her achievements at the ADC. “We set [...]
Posted April 22, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Go ahead for Hebrew course at goverrment school MELBOURNE, 19 April – A new Hebrew program will be offered at Glen Eira College from the beginning of next term. The language class available for year 7 students, with a view to a broader rollout in the coming [...]
Posted April 15, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Cardinal clarifies Comments SYDNEY, 13 April – Australia’s most senior Catholic clergyman, Cardinal George Pell, has clarified remarks he made on the ABC’s Q&A program, saying he did not mean to offend the Jewish community. During a wide-ranging discussion on Monday night’s program, Pell – the Archbishop of [...]
Posted April 8, 2012 Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, 4 April – Victoria Police will this month seek to extradite a former teacher at a Melbourne Jewish orthodox school from the United States over a child sex abuse scandal that was allegedly covered up by the school. Parents allege that Yeshivah College in East St Kilda assisted [...]
Posted April 1, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Scholarships to perpetuate Sir Zelman’s Memory CANBERRA, 29 March –The late Sir Zelman Cowen understood the power of education to transform people’s lives. Now new scholarships named in his honour will help young Australians progress their own education and change for the better. Prime Minister Julia Gillard [...]
Posted March 12, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian New Head for ABC CANBERRA, 9 March – The former chief justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, Jim Spigelman, is to be appointed chairman of the ABC. Justice Spigelman is a well respected member of the Sydney Jewish Community, and in his student days was a leading [...]
