David Burnett
A 21-year old Australian man has been killed in an accident in southern Jordan.
David Burnett suffered multiple head injuries when a cliff path he was walking on collapsed in the ruins of Petra.
Mr Burnett, on holiday in Jordan, was a former vice-president of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS).
In a statement on the AUJS website, president Jessica Roth paid tribute to Mr Burnett.
"Dave was an inspiration to all who knew him and will be greatly missed. His passing will leave a huge void in the Jewish community, AUJS and our personal lives," she said.
The AUJS extended its deepest condolences to Mr Burnett's family and friends and said it is planning to hold a commemoration ceremony in coming weeks.
In the meantime, the AUJS invited people who knew Mr Burnett to come to Shalom College at the University of New South Wales in Sydney this Friday, January 25 at 1:30pm AEDT, to share memories and provide support to each other.
Mr Burnett was an Arts/Law student at the University of Sydney and attended Killara High School, graduating in 2003.
The ancient archaeological site is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists annually.
Bagelblogger: A terrible tragedy for the Australian Jewish community and for the Labor party.
Further reading: SMH: Labor star killed in cliff accident
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News Org: Australian killed after ancient ruins path collapses
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Man arrested for stalking race hate victim
from The Herald SunA MELBOURNE man has been arrested and is expected to be charged over stalking the victim of an anti-semitic attack who was allegedly sent death threats and pictures of dead Jewish people.
Menachem Vorchheimer had been walking to his synagogue in Caulfield in 2006 when he was abused, had his sabbath hat and skull cap snatched off his head and was punched in the eye in a dispute with a group of drunken men in a mini bus.
Two of the men were later convicted and a third was fined without conviction for offences ranging from offensive behaviour, using insulting language and using insulting words in a public place.
However, B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission executive officer Manny Waks said yesterday's arrest was in relation to threatening anti-semitic mail Mr Vorchheimer was sent last year, several months after the attack.
"Included in the material was basically threatening information in there which included pictures of Jewish people who were dead, as well as threats of killing Jews,'' Mr Waks said.
"It was essentially a threatening letter with anti-semitic material in there as well.''
A police spokesman today said the police Ethical Standards Department executed a search warrant today at an undisclosed location in Melbourne and arrested a 40-year-old man, who was interviewed in relation to a complaint made to police by Mr Vorchheimer.
The man was released and was expected to be charged on summons with stalking and other offences, the spokesman said.
The spokesman would not say if the incident was race-related.
Mr Waks said there had previously been allegations that someone connected to the police force may have sent the threatening mail because the driver of the bus involved in 2006 was an off-duty policeman.
The Vorchheimer family is currently pursuing legal action against the bus driver.
But police today said the arrested man was not a serving or former Victoria Police member.
Mr Vorchheimer and his wife and two children moved to New York after the 2006 attack and the threatening mail, Mr Waks said.
Mr Waks said the family had moved because they felt insecure after the attack and that "it would be reasonable'' to think receiving the allegedly threatening mail had added to this.
But Mr Waks was pleased police had made an arrest.
"This police action sends a clear message to the community; antisemitism will not be tolerated under any circumstances, no matter how major or minor the incident is,'' he said.
Bagelblogger: I would like to know the identity of the accused and the connection between his stalking and the victim. The obvious assumption would be it was in some way 'race related'.
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Herald Sun: Man arrested for stalking race hate victim
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Yes its true, despite a spectacular absence of blogging for over two months, Mr Bagel has returned.
Mr Bagel has been 'moving' from a remote country location to a more civilised part of Australia.
Moving has required Mr Bagel to do five seperate trips of over 2,000kms each, despite selling what we thought was almost all of our worldly possesions, we still had to do five trips to move our 'personal belongings'. Which raises one very valid point, how personal can 5 trailers worth of belongings be? Do you think Mr Bagel might just be a horder? mmm?
Anyway after selling all our furniture we have been rushing around buying beds and fridges and lounges and just about everything else required to life a civilised life. Now that Mr Bagel has moved to civilisation he has decided to stop talking to the soccer ball with a wig. (Tom Hanks.)
We've only been in town a week but, living where there are shops, and services is such a refreshing break from living hours away from the most basic shopping. Its taking some adjustment, I generally spoke to about 3 peaople a month where I lived, now I see hundreds a day.
Mr Bagel: Thank you to all the well wishers and the emails I received
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