Billionaire Sydney property developer Harry Triguboff has been embroiled in a court battle over his attempts to terminate the leases of a major synagogue and several Jewish charitable organisations, run by the family of well-known rabbi Pinchus Feldman.
Mr Triguboff has been a long-time donor of the Yeshiva conglomerate after the Harry Triguboff Foundation purchased the Bondi property in 2012, which has housed the synagogue and its associated charities and colleges for more than 60 years.
The Feldman family has managed parts of the property, including the synagogue, a rabbinical college, a soup kitchen and youth and adult outreach programs, in conjunction with rabbi Dovid Slavin for nearly five decades.
Last month, Mr Triguboff appeared to cut the family adrift after issuing it with eviction notices for its lease over the Yeshiva Synagogue, or shul, as well as the Sydney Talmudical College Association and Chabad Lubavitch of Sydney.
Rabbi Feldman’s son, rabbi Yosef Feldman, wrote to Mr Triguboff that he was “the first Jew to close a shul since the Nazis”.
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