An ultra orthodox Jewish leader and his son have been declared bankrupt after they failed to pay back a $1.5 million loan to keep their Yeshivah Centre afloat.
Rabbi Corey Tayar sued Rabbi Pinchus Feldman and his son Yosef in Victoria’s Supreme Court, after they failed to repay him for a series of loans to meet the centre’s ongoing expenses.
The Feldman family are leaders in Sydney’s ultra orthodox Jewish community and Rabbi Tayar, who now lives in Melbourne, previously worked with them at the city’s Yeshivah Centre.
The court ruled in Rabbi Tayar’s favour in March 2020, with the father and son ordered to pay him back $1,515,402. The Feldmans tried to appeal the decision, but their attempts failed.
Rabbi Tayar applied to have the Feldmans declared bankrupt because they have only paid back about $150,000 since 2020, the Federal Court in Melbourne heard on Thursday.
Read the article by Emily Woods in The Canberra Times.