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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 2000

55 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

Murder in apartheid South Africa Title: A State of Symmetry Publisher: Migdal Press, 380 pp, $24.95

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 September 2000 · page 35

FOR a first-time novelist, Paul Clingman has written an impressively accomplished story. When A State of Symmetry was published in South Africa —…

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Murder, intrigue in America Title: Greenwich Publisner: Harcourt, 290pp, $53.95

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 September 2000 · page 38

A NOVEL on several levels: eight people — two bad, six good, two agnostic Jews, several practising Catholics — sit down at a dinner party in the wealthy New York…

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The Shmooze on Friday Even Copperfield goes to court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 September 2000 · page 2

EVEN David Copperfield finds there are some things he can’t do. The master piagician wants his $500,000 back, and he’s gone to…

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Shule bans member after court dispute

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 October 2000 · page 6

A MAJOR Melbourne synagogue has banned a member from leading prayers or blowing the shofar, following a membership dispute that ended…

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Antisemitic material: Community will pursue Scully in court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 October 2000 · page 6

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry will pursue Olga Scully in the Federal Court in the wake of her reported refusal to abide by a finding…

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Melbourne court quashes shule ban

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 October 2000 · page 6

THE Melbourne Magistrate’s Court has overturned an attempt to expel Caulfield Synagogue member David Mond, handing down an…

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Murder condemned

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 October 2000 · page 14

WASHINGTON: US President Bill Clinton condemned the murder of two Israeli soldiers by a mob of Palestinians in Ramallah. “There is no justification for mob…

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Une Police Parallèle À Tahiti?

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 1 November 2000 · page 30

Y a-t-il une police parallèle en Polynésie française, qui serait a service de Gaston Fiasse, le président du gouvernement territor Officiellement, non, mais ily a des rumeurs…

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Feature Understanding the assassination Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated five years ago, on November 4, 1995. Yoram Peri, his political adviser, has written a book examining the circumstances surrounding the murder. Andy Altman-Ohr reports

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 November 2000 · page 21

THE sociological phenomena surrounding the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin five years ago —on November 4, 1995 — will forever scrape…

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Reading between the headlines Students at elite private school investigated over assault claims

The Chaser · Monday 6 November 2000 · page 14

The Daily Telegraph broke the above story about students at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney's Hunters Hill. The article was very coy about…

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Pole charged with helping Nazis

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 November 2000 · page 19

WARSAW: A 77-year-old man has been charged with Nazi collaboration during the Holocaust in the first such case in Poland in more than 25 years…

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Latvian court OKs Kalejs arrest warrant

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 November 2000 · page 10

A LATVIAN court has upheld the legality of a Latvian prosecutor’s warrant for the arrest of Konrad Kalejs, clearing the way for Kalejs to be extradited from Australia to face war…

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Feature Investigation required Confused, soaking wet and carrying a kitchen knife, Jewish photographer Roni Levi was surrounded by police early on Shabbat, June 28, 1997. Within minutes he was shot dead. Using only evidence from the public record of the coronial inquest, James Millier points to flaws in the police investigation which, he argues, are tantamount to there not having been an investigation at all

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 November 2000 · page 21

FOR more than three years, we have been led to believe that the death of Roni Levi has been investigated. That is not true, there has been no investigation. How could that…

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Women at Wall: Court rethink

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 December 2000 · page 16

JERUSALEM: Israel’s High Court is reconsidering whether to allow a women’s group to pray at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. An expanded panel of nine judges convened at…

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Alain Robert, l’homme araignée, intercepté par la police de Singapour

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 1 December 2000 · page 12

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