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So long, and thanks for all the fish 8 Nov 2011 | 05:00 pm
This blog has been running for about a year. It was started by a group of people who were very unhappy about the “leaders and Rabbis” of the community. We wanted to make public some examples of their ...
Cover up? What cover up? 12 Sep 2011 | 11:28 am
For some reason, the discussion of the sex abuse arrests took place on our contact page. The purpose of this story is to put up all the coverage in the newspapers about it, and to have a better place ...
And then there were two 3 Aug 2011 | 02:48 pm
A few months ago we reported on the resignation of Mulik Gurewicz from the Vaad Ruchni. Chabad in Melbourne has reached a new low. Reb Arel Serebryanski has been officially removed as a shliach by the...
Fraud in the CBD 24 Jul 2011 | 02:57 pm
Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet from the UK is visiting Australia hosted by Chaim Herzog of Chabad of CBD. There has been plenty of press about this already, in the AJN (reprinted by COLLive) and also in chab...
This is Daas Torah? 16 Jul 2011 | 09:33 pm
The Yeshivah College sex abuse scandal is going from bad to worse. Today The Australian newspaper had a front page story about it. The Age have also been speaking to people in the community and will b...
Birds of a feather flock together 3 Jul 2011 | 11:14 pm
Melbourne may be one step closer to some kind of resolution in the ongoing Chaim Herzog saga. Chaim has officially stepped down as Rabbi of The Shul, which is a minyan he ran in Wilks St. The minyan w...
Abuse? What abuse? 18 Jun 2011 | 11:41 pm
Recently, the Victorian Police sent out the following letter to boys who went to Yeshivah College about 20 years ago and were taught by a teacher who was alleged to have sexually abused some of them. ...
Ad Mosai? 18 May 2011 | 10:59 am
// What line must Chaim Herzog cross to finally get removed as a Chabad Shliach? Almost every week there is another “incident” as Chaim continues to drag the name of Lubavitch through the mud. A few w...
Worth Remembering 5 May 2011 | 10:13 pm
When Reb Moshe Feiglin landed nearly one hundred years ago in the port city of Fremantle, local Jews advised him not to overly emphasize his Judaism. When he later went to Melbourne and found a relati...
And then there were five 6 Apr 2011 | 10:18 pm
As people have heard and was mentioned on this blog, Mulik Gurewicz has resigned from the Vaad Ruchni. The following note was sent out: We wish to inform the community that Mr. Shmuel Gurewicz has, fo...
