Rabbi Moshe Gutnick

August 19, 2021, 12:00 am

Leaders’ urgent calls to heed lockdown orders

RCV: “We implore anybody considering flouting the law to refrain from doing so. We unreservedly condemn such actions, which bring risk and shame to the entire community.”

By Evan Zlatkis

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 ignoring a ruling of three courts and instead focusing on one dissenting opinion, writes Joshua Levi.

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’

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

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).

Co-owner of Shuk Erez Beker claims he is being discriminated against by the KA. Photo: Noel Kessel

February 8, 2018, 12:01 am

‘Stay out of the kitchen!’

THE Kashrut Authority (KA) has defended its decision to ban Shuk from using Our Big Kitchen (OBK), in the face of claims its policy is discriminatory.

By Joshua Levi

The Shuk is at the centre of a new row between CK and the KA.

January 22, 2018, 12:01 am

KA-CK conflict heats up

COMMUNITY Kashrut (CK) has been slammed by its opposition, the Kashrut Authority (KA), but endorsed by a top kashrut agency in Israel, which the KA itself approves of.

By Joshua Levi

December 4, 2017, 12:01 am

Taking the helm of RCANZ

By Joshua Levi

October 19, 2017, 12:00 am

SSM: Rabbis can’t pick and choose parts of the Torah

If rabbis want to rely on the Torah to define marriage, they must push for polygamy to be legalised, writes Eli Fisher.

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.

South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation. Photo: Peter Haskin.

January 27, 2017, 12:01 am

South Caulfield siruv lifted

A CONTROVERSIAL “siruv” prohibiting the hiring of a rabbi or service leader has been lifted from South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation.

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