Alex Dafner: Impact of Coronavirus on the Jewish Community (Yiddish) 22.3.2020

The Corona Virus pandemic affected the Jewish community further this week with the closures of Jewish schools in Melbourne and Sydney, synagogue closures and the postponement of important community celebrations and commemorations, some of which will be staged without the presence of the public and will be transmitted via the internet instead. The NSW Anti-Terrorist Police squad arrested a 21 year old man in a town South of Sydney, who they claimed held neo-Nazi, antisemitic and racist views and charged him with planning a terrorist act and trying to buy weapons and bomb making materials via the internet. The Federal Court of Australia ruled definitively in favour of the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, in a case that challenged his right to sit in parliament, because of a potential dual citizenship, which he might have inherited via his Holocaust survivor mother.

A view of Empty rice and food aisles shelves at a supermarket in Brisbane..Australian shops experiences shortage on some products such a rice,) Source: Sipa USA Florent Rols / SOPA Images/Sipa