Dear Rabbi.  I constantly read and hear pronouncements from the so-called Jewish Council of Australia and I wonder: What is Jewish about them?  Could you enlighten me?   Thanks.  Alon P.

In three words: Next to nothing. Their sole platform appears to be to express their loathing of Zionism and their support of Palestinian rights to the land of Israel. (“Jewish Voice for Peace” is of similar ilk in the USA)

Louise Adler, an advisory-committee member, when asked about her Jewish values responded: “Well actually they’re humanist values!” Ohad Kozminsky, an executive member, maintains that “Israel was never a promised land for Jews” while steadfastly upholding the “imperative that we remember G-D’s role in securing our freedom from Egyptian slavery” – talk about cherry-picking from the Torah! – but that’s not to proclaim a Jewish value, it’s strictly in order that he can declare  “we........

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