Comments on: Rabbi Milecki ready to mediate https://www.jwire.com.au/rabbi-milecki-ready-to-mediate/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:13:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Yehoshua Fuchs https://www.jwire.com.au/rabbi-milecki-ready-to-mediate/#comment-232994 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:13:33 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=74507#comment-232994 In reply to Jock Orkin.

I am not involved at all in this issue and don’t even live in AU anymore but I can answer your question. I don’t know the story here, however I have seen (sadly) enough times now a situation where the community loves their rabbi but an influential board member or a board that has an issue which some aspect of the rabbi for example he is Chabad takes issue and try’s to out the Rabbi. I have also seen it in a case where the board wasn’t handling the money properly and the rabbi’s involvment made it to difficult and they wanted to be rid of him. I am not saying that this is the case here. But it is very likely that the congregation at large isn’t involved in the politics and the dispute the way the board is.
Imagine a class where the teacher is beloved by his students but he and the admin have some problems and they divide to fire him. It doesn’t mean the students don’t want him.

]]> By: Jock Orkin https://www.jwire.com.au/rabbi-milecki-ready-to-mediate/#comment-232769 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:26:54 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=74507#comment-232769 As a disinterested party living in Melbourne I am disappointed by the conduct of both sides in the dispute. First, the Rabbi. According to today’s AJN ( July 30 2017 ) ,he was urged to lift his game as far back as 2011.Nothing happened and many of the congregants got restive.Why didn’t he listen to them ? .Surely a good Rabbi would take heed of their concerns? Furthermore why would a Rabbi serve a congregation that no longer liked or respected him ?Nobody in his or her right mind would enjoy working under such ill feeling.

Then the shul board .Why didn’t they handle the situation in a smarter way ? By allowing things to drag on for so long they hosted an expensive banquet for the lawyers .

Quo vadis South Head Synagogue ?

]]> By: David Austin https://www.jwire.com.au/rabbi-milecki-ready-to-mediate/#comment-232749 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:51:45 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=74507#comment-232749 Thank you for telling us you harbor a grudge against Chabad. Did it ever occur to you that says more about you than Chabad?

]]> By: Angela-Leah Vered https://www.jwire.com.au/rabbi-milecki-ready-to-mediate/#comment-232519 Wed, 28 Jun 2017 05:11:36 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=74507#comment-232519 Well spoken Rabbi Milecki
Angela-Leah Vered MDR
Master of Dispute Resolution
Arbitrator
Mediator NMAS

]]> By: Avigael Cassel https://www.jwire.com.au/rabbi-milecki-ready-to-mediate/#comment-232501 Wed, 28 Jun 2017 03:22:02 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=74507#comment-232501 This case will not rest. Its an unconstitutional outcome and will be further challenged and Beezrat HaShem overturned, even if not on this issue. The case reads like a horror story with biased witnesses who are far from experts talking fantasies. The injustice will be addressed. The entire episode is just another Chilul HaShem thanks once again to chabad. Its well past time chabadniks are removed from any leadership position in Australia. Its well past time the Shules take a different approach.

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