An administrator brought in to save a Sydney synagogue has taken the extraordinary step of sacking its Rabbi after claims his wage was sending the congregation broke.
On Wednesday, an administrator was appointed to the South Head Synagogue at Rose Bay in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the culmination of a dispute between the synagogue’s board of management and Rabbi Benzion Milecki.
For months the board had been pushing the Rabbi to retire to stem what it said was a decline in membership.
Shortly after the synagogue was placed into voluntary administration, three members each paid $500,000 to cover the synagogue’s overdraft, as its property was in danger of being sold off by their bank.
Read the full article by David Spicer at ABC News.