Tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l, Yiddish report 15.11.2020

Australian Jewry, Rabbis, community leaders and politicians including the Prime Minister Scott Morrison, paid tribute to the former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth and great thinker, author and communicator Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l, who passed away last Saturday at the age of 72. The new Australian Ambassador to Israel Paul Griffiths presented his documents and met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who reassured him that the extradition of Malka Leifer who is wanted in Australia on 74 charges of sexual abuse of children, should soon be enabled via the Israeli courts, pending an appeal due on the 3rd of December, 2020. A 124 page report by an independent inquiry into accusations of antisemitic harassment and bullying of Jewish students at the Brighton Secondary College, has proposed a number of actions and policy changes, but much to the anger and disappointment of the victims and their families, did not find the principal nor staff responsible for allowing such reported abuse to go on. The 82nd commemoration of the terrible Kristalnacht Anti-Jewish pogrom of the 9th to 10th November 1938 in Nazi Germany and Austria, was marked online by the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, during which the British curator Paul Salmons talked about the poignancy of several possessions left by Jewish victims at the Auschwitz Concentration and Death Camp. Anns: Discover the National Yiddish Book Center in a virtual "night at the museum", live from Massachusetts, USA, as we explore the Center's Yiddish book vault and its hidden treasures, from typewriters and poetry collections to cookbooks and sheet music. Wednesday 18th November, 2020 at 10AM, via Zoom, free, details at www.kadimah.org.au