Increase in domestic and family violence among the Jewish community...Yiddish report 21.6.2020

Coronavirus

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Alex Dafner with the weekly Yiddish report Jewish Care and other social welfare organisations in Australia expressed concerns over the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in relation to domestic and family violence among the Jewish community, a trend that my begin to show up more once the isolation and restrictions are loosened and the victims feel freer to attend community functions and feel more confident to report it. The Palestinian woman who drove a suicide bomber to the Sbarro Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, where 15 young people including Australian and US citizen Malki Roth e”h were killed in 2001, may face extradition from Jordan, to be tried in the USA for the murder of Roth and another American citizen. Jewish schools and youth organisations in Victoria are quickly organising winter camps and activities for children and young people over the June-July vacations, following the announcement by the government that such camps may again be held, with precautions, after the 22nd of June 2020.



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