The defending and prosecuting teams in the forthcoming MMalka Leifer sexual abuses case in Melbourne, have agreed to move her trial forward from October 2022 to the start of August 2022 and instead of a trial of by judge only, it will now be tried before a jury.
An Israel-based legal activist organisation is urging Australian Holocaust survivors and their descendants to join its class action against insurance companies, whose Holocaust era antecedents failed to pay out on policies held by displaced and murdered European Jews.
In the midst of a heating up federal election campaign, the leaders of the two main political parties, PM and Liberal leader Scott Morrison and the opposition Labor leader Anthony Albanese, wished the Australian Jewish community a Happy Passover, stressing the difficulties and pain caused by Covid and the war in Ukraine.
Sign-off: Farewell, good health, wishes for Pesach and the week...
