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Anti-Semitism Rises 31% in Australia

The Age

Jews in Australia faced 517 incidents of harassment or intimidation in the year to September 30, a 31 per cent rise from the year before, according to the Jewish community’s annual report on anti-Semitism. “Put bluntly, in Australia this year, 10 times a week, every week, Jewish Australians were attacked or threatened,” report author Jeremy Jones said yesterday.

Chabad Vs. Lichtfield Dispute Heading to Court

Republican American

Rabbi Yosef Eisenbach is the spiritual leader of Chabad of Lichtfield County, Connecticut.

Attorneys representing Chabad Lubavitch of Litchfield County have taken direct aim at Litchfield’s power to regulate construction within the town’s historic district, and the argument will come to a head this week in the Bridgeport courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall.