Australian Jews have experienced one of the sharpest and most violent rises in anti-Jewish racism and hatred in the world, according to Australia's peak Jewish community group. The Executive Council of Australia Jewry said there were 1,654 reports of anti-Jewish incidents recorded by the community in the 12 months to October 1. The council's chief executive Alex Ryvchin said it was a near-record number of incidents — second only to the 2,062 incidents recorded the previous year. "The Australian Jewish community statistically and experientially has faced the sharpest decline in our physically security of any Jewish community anywhere in the...