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Situated in Adelaide’s east in Glenside, the Synagogue shares the premise with Adelaide’s only Jewish day school – Massada College and enjoys weekly regular Sabbath and Jewish festival services. Feel free to explore our website and let us show you how our congregation has been in existence for over 167 years.
January 14, 2010 by Henry Benjamin
The Adelaide Hebrew Congregation will have a new rabbi next week.
Rabbi Netanel Friedler
Rabbi Netanel Friedler is on a three year contract and will also become spiritual head of the city’s Massada College, recently rescued from crippling financial difficulties by a $100,000 donation from Melbourne mining magnate Joseph Gutnick.
The 167-yr-old AHC has had no rabbi for six months but President Eric Edelman told J-Wire: “We have had the occasional visiting rabbi but we have coped well.”
The Shule was embroiled in litigation in 2007 over the termination of Rabbi Yosef Engel, who took the matter to the Supreme Court. Rabbi Engel lost the case and is currently facing charges of allegedly falsifying documents in order to obtain $50,000 in government grants for a school the prosecution says does not exist.
Rabbi Friedler and his wife have two children both of whom will attend Massada. The Friedler family comes from Israel.
