NSW Police
Police outside Sydney's Central Synagogue on Sunday night. Photo: AJN
May 2, 2019, 12:00 am
‘Business as usual’ following security scare
THE Community Security Group (CSG) in NSW insists it will be “business as usual” for Shabbat services, after an online threat against Sydney’s Central Synagogue triggered a large-scale police operation on Sunday night.
The offending graffiti which has since been removed.
March 29, 2019, 12:21 pm
Police investigating neo-Nazi graffiti in Sydney
POLICE are appealing for information after a series of neo-Nazi symbols and antisemitic remarks were sprayed on a Sydney laneway.
FREE executive director Reuven Morrison (right) with Rabbi Yehoram Ulman at the Wellington Street, Bondi site where the new shule will be built. Photo: Noel Kessel
July 6, 2018, 12:01 am
Panel approves new Bondi shule
AFTER 12 years of frustration, Sydney's Russian-speaking Jewish community is in celebration after Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe's (FREE) long-planned synagogue and community centre finally got the green light last week.
By Shane Desiatnik and Gareth Narunsky
Ethnic community leaders gather at the launch of the Keep NSW Safe campaign. Photo: Noel Kessel
August 11, 2016, 9:46 am
Communities rally for race-hate reform
In an unprecedented move, a coalition of ethnic organisations came together on Wednesday to urge the state government to fix its -“completely ineffective” race-hate legislation.
By Evan Zlatkis
November 26, 2015, 12:00 am
NSW Police: Go out and celebrate Chanukah
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas has called on everyone to attend Chanukah events this year.
By Joshua Levi
Anat Sultan-Dadon addresses the Zionism Victoria briefing on Israel’s terror crisis. Photo: Paul Gardner
November 9, 2015, 12:00 am
Envoy briefs on terror crisis
“HOW can you prevent someone who’s waking up in the morning, not part of an organisation or group, and deciding he’s taking a knife and is going to do whatever it was he was incited to do?” asked Anat Sultan-Dadon at a Zionism Victoria briefing on the terror crisis in Israel.
By Peter Kohn
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione chats to Central Synagogue president Danny Taibel, alongside NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff, and Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas. Photo: Henry Benjamin
October 30, 2015, 12:00 am
Props to our cops
THE third annual Police Remembrance Service hosted by the NSW Jewish community was held last Friday night at Central Synagogue.
By Gareth Narunsky
NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton with Vic Alhadeff (on left) and Jeremy Spinak.
October 22, 2015, 10:08 am
‘A historic reform’
NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has publicly admitted for the first time that Section 20D of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act is not working and she will introduce legislation by May to fix it.
By Evan Zlatkis
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff.
October 15, 2015, 12:00 am
Business as usual at schools
SECURITY operations are back to normal at Sydney’s Jewish schools, after a letter sent to NSW Police containing threats of violence to Jewish schools and NSW police stations led to a precautionary increase in security on Tuesday.
By Phoebe Roth
Federal Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
September 10, 2015, 12:00 am
Advocacy of genocide to be criminalised
ANTI-Discrimination Board of NSW president Stepan Kerkyasharian has joined communal leaders in welcoming the federal government’s plans to introduce a new crime of “advocacy of genocide”.
By Evan Zlatkis
Ismail al-Wahwah.
September 3, 2015, 12:00 am
Dismay over failure to charge al-Wahwah
NSW Anti-Discrimination Board president Stepan Kerkyasharian has backed the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ (JBOD) call for the state’s race hate legislation to be reviewed after police decided last week not to charge Hizb ut-Tahrir leader Ismail al-Wahwah with racial incitement.
By Gareth Narunsky
Ismail al-Wahwah.
August 27, 2015, 10:57 am
Hate speaker to avoid prosecution
NSW Police will not charge a Hizb ut-Tahrir leader over allegations of race-hate speech after a video emerged of Ismail al-Wahwah reportedly calling on people to “rid” the world of the Jewish “hidden evil”.
By Evan Zlatkis
July 7, 2014, 12:00 am
Police probe possible cover-up
NSW Police and the NSW Ombudsman are investigating if there were any breaches of mandatory reporting legislation in relation to child abuse in the Jewish community.
By Joshua Levi
August 30, 2012, 1:04 pm
Police reopen bombing case
THIRTY years after the Israeli Consulate-General and Hakoah Club in Sydney were bombed, police have reopened their investigation into the attacks, appealing for anyone in the community with any information to come forward.
By Gareth Narunsky
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