Rabbi Yaakov Glasman
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May 23, 2019, 12:01 am
Why the president of RCANZ must stand down
THE leading rabbis of Australia have shown a lack of respect for the Australian legal system by focusing on one dissenting judge's opinion.
By Joshua Levi
In a rare moment of unity Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Cheryl Edwards, who led the advisory group for the apology, came together to apologise to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. Photo: AAP Image
October 25, 2018, 12:01 am
The national apology
Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised to all victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse,
By AJN STAFF
At the funding announcement at St Kilda Shule, clockwise from top left: State MP David Southwick, immediate past president of South Caulfield Shule Zeev Duieb, Senator James Paterson, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of St Kilda Shule, Tim Wilson MP and Rabbi Dovid Rubinfeld of Melbourne Hebrew Congregation.
May 31, 2018, 12:00 am
Security funding boost for Melbourne shules
Funding for security upgrades at Melbourne shules, Jewish schools and organisations will receive a boost of more than $350,000 from the federal government's Safer Communities Fund.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Moshe Gutnick of the Sydney Beth DIn. Photo: Ingrid Shakenovsky
December 4, 2017, 12:01 am
Taking the helm of RCANZ
By Joshua Levi
Some of the RCV executive and how they voted: Rabbi Moshe Kahn (against), Rabbi Chaim Cowen (for), Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick (for) Rabbi Daniel Rabin (against) Rabbi Phillip Heilbrunn (for), Rabbi Ralph Genende (against, resigned), Rabbi Shmuel Karnowsky (against). Photo: Peter Haskin
September 14, 2017, 12:00 am
Same-sex marriage statement rocks rabbinate
A Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) member quit the body's executive and the president apologised within days of an RCV statement urging people to vote against same-sex marriage in the upcoming postal survey.
By Joshua Levi and adam kamien
Fiona Richardson. Photo: AAP Image/Julian Smith.
September 1, 2017, 12:01 am
Premier’s trip postponed
HE was due to visit Israel this week, but Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been forced to postpone his trip following the tragic death of government minister Fiona Richardson.
June 22, 2017, 8:10 am
No less loved in the eyes of God
THE saddest part about the uproar which plagued Rabbi Steven Greenberg’s recent Australian visit was that the substance of conversation that so desperately needs to be had within the heart of the Orthodox community never really got off the ground, writes Rabbi Yaakov Glasman.
Manny Waks (left) and Anton Block at the Night of Healing. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 30, 2017, 12:00 am
Uniting to heal wounds of abuse
In the wake of last week’s Royal Commission hearing, members of the community gathered with lay and spiritual leaders at Caulfield Park Pavilion for what was billed as “a Night of Healing”.
By Rebecca Davis
Departing US Secretary of State John Kerry with other international attendees of the January 15 peace conference in Paris.
January 19, 2017, 12:00 am
Paris conference an ‘empty exercise’
An overhyped talkfest – that is the consensus among Jewish leaders in Australia about the January 15 peace conference in Paris.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Rafael Kaiserblueth.
December 16, 2016, 12:00 am
Rabbis oppose assisted suicide legislation
Australian rabbis appear to be united against assisted suicide, as the Victorian government considers legalising it for terminally ill people.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz.
December 8, 2016, 12:00 am
Rabbi resigns from roof bodies
Malvern Chabad’s Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz has resigned from RCANZ and RCV after a complaint that he acted in a way that hurt victims of child sexual abuse.
By Joshua Levi
Josh Frydenberg MP lights an historic chanukiah at a Chanukah reception at Parliament House, Canberra.
December 5, 2016, 12:00 am
A capital Chanukah
More than 220 members of Canberra’s Jewish community joined politicians at Mural Hall in Parliament House on November 29 to light an historic chanukiah.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Yaakov Glasman. Photo: Peter Haskin
November 25, 2016, 12:00 am
Australia’s new ‘top rabbi’
Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of St Kilda Hebrew Congregation has become Australia’s new “top rabbi”.
By Joshua Levi
From left: Rabbi Daniel Rabin, Rabbi Chaim Cowen, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman, Rabbi Menachem Wolf and Rabbi Velly Slavin showing off their HODS cards. Photo: Peter Haskin.
March 7, 2016, 12:00 am
Stressing the mitzvah of organ donation
A HANDFUL of young Melbourne rabbis have joined a scheme which allows them to be registered as organ donors in accordance with halachah.
By Phoebe Roth
January 30, 2015, 12:00 am
PM’s rabbinical appointment
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