Rabbi Doctor Dovid Slavin
After 20 years of candle burning including raising a family and running Our Big Kitchen in Bondi, Rabbi Dovid Slavin has been conferred with a PhD at the University of Sydney.
Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin throws his cap in the air in front of his family
Professor Suzanne Rutland and Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin PhD Photos: Henry Benjamin
His family watched as the newly-named Rabbi Doctor Dovid Slavin received his honour. Also on hand was Professor Suzanne Rutland who supervised Rabbi Slavin following the retirement of Professor Alan Crown in 1997.
Rabbi Doctor Slavin started his 20-yr journey under the late Professor Alan Crown. He completed his PhD thesis on the educational contribution made to Judaism by Rabbi Meir Shapiro of the Lublin Yeshiva in Poland under the supervision of Professor Suzanne Rutland.
Professor Rutland told J-Wire: “I am extremely proud of him. This is an amazing achievement especially when one considers that at the outset he had never received a secular education and had never studied English. He was examined at the highest level and all the examiners were international.”
Hi Rabbi Dovid Slavin, thankyou for being a good and gracious human being, like myself I think thats the way people should be helping people makes life so much better for them, and it is appreciated. Myself and family had a hard time growing up in Sydney, my dad died and mum had four young children to rear, but she did it, after being evicted onto the streets, and going to a housing settlement it was hard for us as a close family. But we survived, for these things to happen its so hard to understand why.
Thanks to you and your wife and others regards Barbara Balemans.