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Police storm Sydney cafe to end hostage siege, three dead
Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded.
Hostages held in Sydney cafe, Islamic flag seen in window
Hostages were being held inside a central Sydney cafe where a black flag with white Arabic writing could be seen in the window, local television showed on Monday, raising fears of an attack linked to Islamic militants.
Anti-Semitic fliers delivered to Sydney Jewish neighborhoods
Anti-Semitic fliers were dropped in the mailboxes of private homes in Jewish suburbs of Sydney.\n
Australia’s Jewish cooking club
In the cookbook collection of nearly every Jewish family sits a sincere yet amateur plastic-ring-bound volume of recipes. A group of women known as the Monday Morning Cooking Club has adopted this tried-and-true sisterhood tradition of culinary anthropology and recipe collecting and brought it into contemporary food culture, via Sydney, Australia.
Fired gay day school principal settles with school out of court
The fired principal of a major Jewish school in Melbourne reached an out-of-court settlement on the eve of his unfair dismissal case in the Federal Court.
Rabbi denies he knew of sexual abuse at Jewish school
A man under investigation for allegedly sexually abusing boys at a Sydney Jewish day school told police that senior rabbis knew of his actions but failed to report them to authorities, a newspaper reported.
Melbourne sex abuse probes spread to Sydney Jewish community
Allegations of child sex abuse, rampant in Melbourne’s Jewish community, have spread to Sydney, with police mounting investigations into two individuals.
Principal at Aussie school under fire sees child sex abuse inquiry as ‘welcome step’
The launch of a commission to investigate child sex abuse was welcomed by the principal of an Australian Jewish school whose students allegedly were victimized. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Monday that the royal commission — or public inquiry — would look into children under the care of religious organizations and focus on the response of the institutions to the alleged sex abuse cases. She called child sex abuse \”vile and evil.\”
Fire seriously damages Sydney synagogue
A fire severely damaged a synagogue in Sydney on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.