Yom Kippur Message to Australian Jewish community fr PM Scott Morrison Yiddish report 27.9.2020

The situation regarding Covid -19 infections at the Melbourne Jewish Care Victoria’s Hannah & Daryl Cohen Family Home had further improved this week, with no infected residents, and a return to partial reopening after 48 days of lockdown, having meals together and celebrating Rosh Hashona together. Australian Jews and the survivors of sexual abuse, greeted the ruling by a Jerusalem district court that the alleged child sexual abuser Malka Leifer can be, pending an appeal, extradited to Australia, where she is wanted to stand trial over 74 charges of such abuse, at the Adass Israel girls school in Melbourne, before she fled to Israel in 2008. The Australian PM Scott Morrison spoke on a pre Yom Kippur recorded video produced by the Rabbinical Association of Australasia, about the difficulties of the disrupted High Holidays particularly for the Victorian Jewish community and stressed the importance of maintaining and choosing life above all else, as the Jewish tradition commands, and he wished everyone in the Jewish community a gmar khsime toyve.

Source: SBS