Survivors of sexual abuse in the Jewish community were left feeling “shame” and “re-traumatised” following changes to Victoria’s Judicial Proceedings Reports Act that silences victims from speaking out. Alleged sexual abuse victim Dassi Erlich said, “The government does not have the right to choose how and when victims tell their story”.

The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation has announced a new endowment that will facilitate research into gender issues in the Australian Jewish community.

The extradition hearing for alleged child sexual abuser Malka Leifer has concluded, with Jerusalem District Court Judge Chana Lomp set to hand down her decision on September 21, 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Another former Jewish student of Brighton Secondary College has revealed his experiences of antisemitic bullying, alleging he experienced verbal and physical abuse, including being threatened with a knife.

EXCLUSIVE: Brighton Secondary College has once again come under fire as more shocking claims of antisemitic bullying have surfaced. The allegations have raised the “extreme concern” of Victorian Education Minister James Merlino who has now launched an independent investigation.

EXCLUSIVE: The Victorian Department of Education has launched a full investigation following allegations of “horrific” antisemitic bullying levelled against students and teachers at a state secondary school. The incidents are said to have occurred over the past five years at Brighton Secondary College experienced by two Jewish brothers, who only now feel able to voice their alleged ordeal since recently leaving the school.

EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A special investigation has revealed an alarming reality: Over one third (37 per cent) of 111 women surveyed said they have experienced gender-based bullying in a Jewish organisation, with five per cent saying it is a regular occurrence. Further, one fifth of respondents said they have encountered sexual harassment in Jewish organisations in some form.

EXCLUSIVE: In a special investigation into the experiences of women in leadership in Melbourne and Sydney’s Jewish community, the issues of career aspirations and development; culture, values and respect; board participation; bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment; work/life balance; religion and generational issues are explored.

The Jerusalem District Court's ruling that Leifer is mentally fit to stand trial marks a long-awaited and long-overdue milestone in the quest to bring her to justice in Australia.

The coronavirus pandemic has left more members of our community in need of extra help - and C Care has jumped to action.

Despite the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic, grassroots initiatives have sprung to life across the community, bringing some much needed light to the darkness.

Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman are the sibling powerhouse behind fashion label, Camilla + Marc. Together, they have recently launched a campaign with purpose - to combat ovarian cancer - the disease that has touched them in a deeply personal way.

Several Jewish firefighters and service people have been at the epicentre in fighting the fires that have gripped the nation.

“I was looking to my left and my right, and the terrorist was on my right, five metres from me, and he saw me. He aimed at me, and he shot me again. This time, he hit me in the left groin, right in the main artery, which exploded and I fell down on the road.”

Naomi Tucker is the co-founder of Shalom Bayit, a centre set up to support women and children fleeing domestic violence in the Jewish community in the Bay Area of the US.
“So often, we have seen women’s safety put at the bottom of the totem pole of Jewish communal priorities … [It needs to be put] on our Jewish social justice agenda, as a communal priority. We work on so many justice issues in the community, and most of the time they don’t include women – yet women are half of our population,” says Tucker.

EXCLUSIVE: The parents of young Jewish students who were the victims of antisemitic bullying say they feel sidelined in the Victorian Department of Education's review into the incidents.

The Aiia Maasarwe Memorial Medical Fellowship will provide financial support to Palestinian physicians to be trained in Israeli hospitals, in honour of the 21-year-old who was raped and murdered in Melbourne in January.

Elliot Perlman has been busy since the release of his last work of adult fiction, The Street Sweeper, the evidence of which whir by on two small scooters when we meet at his favourite Elsternwick cafe. Yet, while eight years may have passed, Perlman’s fiction remains as relevant and poignant as ever in his latest release, Maybe the Horse Will Talk.

Following exclusive reports by The AJN last week revealing two cases of antisemitic bullying in state schools, the families of the victims met on Monday with Victorian education minister James Merlino in addition to meeting federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan.

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria’s Education Minister James Merlino has ordered an “immediate review” into how two Melbourne schools responded to alleged incidents of antisemitic bullying, following yesterday’s exclusive report in The AJN.