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The Refugee Review Tribunal was a statutory body which provided a final, independent, merits review of decisions made by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship or, in practice, by officers of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), acting as delegates of the Minister, to refuse to grant protection visas to non-citizens within Australia, or to cancel protection visas held by non-citizens in Australia. The Tribunal was established in 1993 under Part 7 of the Act and replaced the Refugee Status Review Committee (RSRC). On 1 July 2015 the Refugee Review Tribunal was amalgamated into the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.  Website: www.aat.gov.au/
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Russian Federation: 1. Please advise as to how many synagogues there were in Krasnodar (or Kraznodar?) in the period 1977- June 1996; and February 1998-February 2004. 2. Please advise as to how many synagogues there were in Ryazan from June 1996-February 1998. 3. Please advise as to whether Jews in Russia, particularly in Krasnodar and Ryazan, have become disconnected with their religion during Communist rule and then after the break up of the Soviet Union. 4. Are Jews in USSR/Russia considered to be an ethnic group rather than a religion? 5. Please advise the meaning of the following Jewish terms/objects, and whether they have a different word to describe them in Russia, particularly in Krasnodar: * Menorah (7-pronged candlestick); * Torah (book of the teaching and judgments of early Jewish priests); * there is also another book, the Talmud. Please provide the definition of that as well. * Yumulkah (skull cap; it may be Tubiteyka in Russian); * Ashkenazi (the group of Jews who emanate from Europe; compare Sephardi); * Bar mitzvah (ceremony for a boy at age 13 when he acquires religious obligations); * Moile (man who performs the ritual circumcision; this may be the Yiddish word and the Russian word may be Reznick or Reznik). 6. When is ritual circumcision to take place? (Within 7 days of the birth of the male child?)

8 May 2006 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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