Sydney Beth Din

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

Rabbi Moshe Gutnick of the Sydney Beth DIn. Photo: Ingrid Shakenovsky

May 23, 2019, 12:00 am

Rabbi Gutnick to remain head of RCANZ

RABBI Moshe Gutnick is to remain president of the Rabbinic Council of Australia and New Zealand (RCANZ) despite the High Court rejecting an appeal application by the Sydney Beth Din (SBD), which he heads, to overturn contempt of court convictions against four of its members.

By Gareth Narunsky

March 28, 2019, 12:00 am

Sydney Beth Din to be investigated

THE Sydney Beth Din (SBD) has accused the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) of having a "history of effectively undermining the theological basis of Orthodoxy and halachah" after JBOD last week resolved to investigate it.

By Gareth Narunsky

January 10, 2019, 4:25 pm

‘I had no choice but to take rabbis to court’

In order to ensure that the SBD functions in line with the reasonable expectations of the Jewish community, urgent reform needs to occur.

By REUVEN BARUKH

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January 10, 2019, 12:00 am

Reflections on the Sydney Beth Din case

A PRINCIPLE of Jewish law requires that a dispute between two Jews should be referred to a Din Torah for decision, and not taken to the civil courts.

By Ian Waller

January 3, 2019, 12:01 am

Rabbinate reform urged

IT has been revealed that Sydney’s Orthodox rabbis were told they were prohibited from attending the communal funeral service of former NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) Jeremy Spinak, who died at the age of 36 last year, because it was being held at “a Reform Temple” .

Rabbi Moshe Gutnick. Photo: Ingrid Shakenovsky

December 26, 2018, 11:31 am

Sydney Beth Din issues statement

December 6, 2018, 11:29 am

A Jew is a Jew?

September 13, 2018, 12:01 am

Like Mary, we can give the greatest gift of all

IT'S the greatest gift, it's in every breath you take, in each moment you wake – it's the gift of life. In these days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we are especially attuned to the preciousness of this present; the fabulous bestowal of this trembling heart, this wondrous, fragile cargo called life. Our prayers are saturated with a longing for life: "Remember us for life", "Who will live, who will die?", the bracha to the one who has "given us life, sustained us and brought us to this time" (Shehecheyanu).

FREE executive director Reuven Morrison (right) with Rabbi Yehoram Ulman at the Wellington Street, Bondi site where the new shule will be built. Photo: Noel Kessel

July 6, 2018, 12:01 am

Panel approves new Bondi shule

AFTER 12 years of frustration, Sydney's Russian-speaking Jewish community is in celebration after Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe's (FREE) long-planned synagogue and community centre finally got the green light last week.

By Shane Desiatnik and Gareth Narunsky

April 5, 2018, 12:01 am

Beth Din appeals contempt ruling

THE rabbis of the Sydney Beth Din (SBD) have appealed a December Supreme Court ruling which found them in contempt of court and the associated penalty of $50,000 in fines plus court costs, expected to be more than $250,000, handed down last week.

Justice Stephen Rothman voted in favour of the motion.

September 28, 2017, 12:00 am

JBOD says yes, Beth Din says no

THE NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) almost unanimously passed a motion supporting same-sex marriage on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.

By Joshua Levi

A still from a video released earlier this year in which Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio publicly expressed her support for same-sex marriage.

September 7, 2017, 12:01 am

Yay or nay?

WITH the legality of the postal survey into same-sex marriage currently being considered by the High Court, communal leaders on both sides of the debate have been sharing their thoughts with The AJN.

August 10, 2017, 12:01 am

Ark conversions rejected

THE Orthodox conversions of more than a dozen people hang in the balance after the Sydney and Melbourne Beth Dins stated they would not be recognised, following consultation with the London Beth Din, the Beth Din of America, the Johannesburg Beth Din and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

By Joshua Levi

Caulfield Hebrew Congregation's Rabbi Ralph Genende blows the shofar at Caulfield Park. Photo: Peter Haskin

July 14, 2017, 12:01 am

Rabbis of three hues on ‘blacklist’

THREE Australian rabbis – from mainstream Orthodox, Chabad and Progressive shules – are baffled to be on an Israeli Chief Rabbinate “blacklist” of 160 rabbis worldwide.

By Peter Kohn

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