A Sydney synagogue may have to close because it is unable to sack its rabbi, the synagogue’s president says.
For 32 years, Benzion Milecki has served as the chief rabbi of the South Head and district synagogue, an orthodox congregation on Old South Head Road, Rose Bay.
But this year, the synagogue attempted to bring that relationship to an end.
Facing mounting financial difficulties, the synagogue’s management appointed administrators on April 26. A day later, those administrators wrote to Rabbi Milecki to tell him he had been made redundant.
However, Justice Paul Brereton of the Supreme Court found this week that, under his contract, the administrators could not sack Rabbi Milecki.
Read the full article by Jacob Saulwick at The Sydney Morning Herald.