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Courts & crime, 2005

41 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3

Klansmen Arrested for 1964 Murder

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 14 January 2005 · page 14

NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League welcomed the arrest of a Ku Klux Klan leader charged with the 1964 killing of three civil rights activists…

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Police investigating suspected Hungarian Jew-killer

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 21 January 2005 · page 4

THE Australian Federal Police have launched an investigation into 83year-old Perth resident Charles Zentai, who was accused this week by the…

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Police seek DNA match for Cremorne shul vandal

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 21 January 2005 · page 6

NORTH Sydney Police are searching for the DNA match of a vandal who tried to break into Cremome Synagogue for the second time in 10…

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Jews slam police reaction to antisemitic attack in Argentina

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 February 2005 · page 13

BUENOS AIRES - Argentinean Jews have been shocked by one of the worst instances of antisemitic vandalism they have seen in some time, and…

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Kings of the court The Dover Heights Shule boys’ youth group went to watch the Sydney Kings play basketball

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 February 2005 · page 14

Members of the Dover Heights Shule boys’ youth group with the Sydney Kings’ Ben Knight…

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Hungarian court to rule on fate of Perth resident

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 4 March 2005 · page 6

A HUNGARIAN military tribunal will rule next week on whether to issue an arrest warrant for Charles Zentai, the Hungarian-born Perth…

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Rabbi faces assault charges

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 March 2005 · page 3

A SYDNEY rabbi faced Waverley Local Court last week charged with assault. Rabbi Elozer Gestetner of Coogee Synagogue is accused of attacking his…

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Russian Jews refugees, High Court rules

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 March 2005 · page 3

THE country’s premier Jewish roof body has welcomed a High Court decision which appears to cast doubt over elements of the Federal…

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Coogee Rabbi Faces Court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 April 2005 · page 8

RABBI Elozer Gestetner was scheduled to appear in Waverley Local Court today (Thursday) on an assault charge. Police apprehended the Coogee…

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Rabbi excused from court on erev Pesach

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 April 2005 · page 8

THE case against Coogee Synagogue’s Rabbi Elozer Gestetner was stalled last week because the prosecution provided an incomplete brief of evidence to…

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Orthodox outraged by High Court ruling Behind the Headlines

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 April 2005 · page 13

JERUSALEM - After 22 years of living as an Israeli, Justina Hilaria Chipana can finally consider herself a full-fledged member of the Jewish…

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Rothman appointed to NSW Supreme Court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 April 2005 · page 3

HIGH-profile Sydney barrister Stephen Rothman has been appointed a judge of the NSW Supreme Court…

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What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany Eric Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband Hodder Headline, $39.95

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 April 2005 · page 20

WHAT the Jewish survivors have to say in this book is terrible and…

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Corby shot JFK: Indonesian Police

Tharunka · Monday 2 May 2005 · page 1

Police in Bali have identified Australian prisoner Schapelle Corby as the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. The accusations come as Corby waits to be sentenced for…

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With a wig and a prayer, Rothman joins NSW Supreme Court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 May 2005 · page 3

SURROUNDED by wig-wearing judges in red robes, family members and colleagues, Stephen Rothman took his oath of allegiance to the NSW…

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Chief rabbi’s family arrested in internet-romance assault

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 May 2005 · page 11

TEL AVIV - Teens meeting in internet chat rooms is nothing new. But a scandal involving two such teens is making international…

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Music, murder and mayhem on Sydney's north shore

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 May 2005 · page 5

STEPHEN Sondheim's Assassins, a dark musical about attempts to kill United States presidents through history, will open at the Zenith Theatre in…

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Keep your distance, magistrate orders rabbi

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 May 2005 · page 6

COOGEE Synagogue’s Rabbi Elozer Gestetner was ordered to keep a five-metre distance from his brother-in-law,…

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Indict Chief Rabbi - Police Jerusalem

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 May 2005 · page 11

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (pictured) this week became the first…

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TIME Jewish property claim in Bulgarian court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 May 2005 · page 12

SOFIA - Bulgaria’s highest court opened hearings this week on a legal claim for restitution of Jewish property in…

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