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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.

Behind the Historic Peace Deal (Hebrew)

SBS NEWS IN HEBREW 20.9.2020

Shane Desiatnik with the latest from Oz, New Year! New Dawn of Peace! 20.9.2020

Australian Jews warmly greeted the newly signed agreement between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain at the White House and learnt that one of their own former Melburnians, Tal Becker, a graduate of the Leibler Yavneh College and Monash Uni, was closely involved in the lengthy negotiations and the final agreement signed between Israel and the UAE.

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, but four staff still infected with the virus.

Australian Jews warmly greeted the newly signed agreement between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain at the White House and learnt that one of their own former Melburnians, Tal Becker, a graduate of the Leibler Yavneh College and Monash Uni, was closely involved in the lengthy negotiations and the final agreement signed between Israel and the UAE.

As happens every year, the Australian PM, the Leader of the Opposition, Premiers and State Leaders of the Opposition wished the Australian Jewish Community Shana Tovah, a Happy Jewish New Year and commended them and emphasised the special efforts that will need to be made to overcome the difficulties of not coming together this year, because of the Covid-19 restrictions.

Alex Dafner with the Yiddish report for 20th Sep, 2020 Rosh Hashanah 5781

The Melbourne Beth Din and Rabbinical Council of Victoria reminded the Jewish Community that using Zoom, Skype and other internet programs over the Sabbath and Holy Days is strictly forbidden by Judaic Law and they urged Melbourne Jews to instead register under the “Project High Holidays”, which permits the blowing of the Shofar Ram’s Horn for Rosh Hashana in front of homes, parks, synagogues and designated places.

SBS News in Hebrew 13.9.2020

SBS Jerusalem report with Peta Jones Pellach

Another historic breakthrough this week…Bahrain become the latest Arab nation to agree to normalize relations with Israel

The agreement makes Bahrain the fourth Arab country, after Egypt, Jordan and the UAE, to have full diplomatic ties with Israel. Other Arab nations may follow, including Oman and Sudan. The Bahraini foreign minister is expected to participate in the ceremony at the White House together with Netanyahu and the UAE's foreign minister.

Bahrain, along with Saudi Arabia, had already dropped a prohibition on Israeli flights

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Shane Desiatnik from the AJN with the latest Australian Jewish community news of the week.