Alex Dafner: New Zealand’s only Jewish school in Auckland and all NZ Synagogues were shut " Yiddish report 24.3.2019

New Zealand’s only Jewish school in Auckland and all NZ Synagogues were shut on the Monday following the previous Friday’s shootings in two Mosques in Christchurch, where an Australian gunman killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens of others. Representatives of the NZ Jewish Council visited Christchurch to express their condolences to the Islamic community, following the previous Friday’s shootings in two Mosques in Christchurch, where an Australian gunman killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens of others, and undertook to raise $100K to assist the families of those killed and wounded in the attacks. The Australian Jewish community and leaders expressed their shock and deep felt condolences to the Islamic community of Christchurch following the heinous shootings in the two Mosques in Christchurch, where an Australian gunman killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens of others and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies undertook to raise funds to assist the families of those killed and wounded in the attacks. The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison reaffirmed his government’s 2018 policy of the recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the eventual move of the Australian embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, after a comprehensive agreement over the status of the city is reached between Israel and the Palestinians and he contrasted the policy with that of the Australian Labor Party. Australian accusers of Malka Leifer who is wanted in Victoria to be tried over 74 cases of sexual abuse and rape of female students at the ultra-orthodox Addass Israel Girls’ School in Melbourne, were buoyed in Israel by a crowd of some 100 supporters, including the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, as they prepared to enter the Jerusalem district court to hear the 48th session into Malka Leifer’s ability to be extradited to stand trial in Victoria. Anns: Sunday March 24, 5pm at the Kadimah The Kadimah invites you to the celebration of the legacy of Melbourne Yiddish cultural pioneers Nachman and Rywka Gryfenberg in the latest edition of the Kadimah’s Goldene Kayt (golden chain) series. Danielle Charak OAM, Floris Kalman and their families invite you to join them for an afternoon of film, song and food to honour their late parents, grandparents and respected Kadimah elders. Details www.kadimah.org.au

Source: SBS