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The decision by the Court to reinstate the Rabbi has acutely worsened the financial situation given the Shule’s costs have now increased by 30% and its revenue base is eroding again.

Within an hour of the Court’s decision, two families called the Shule to cancel their credit card authorisation.”

He added: It has demonstrated that the South Head kehillah can be vibrant, financially and economically viable without Rabbi Milecki in the pulpit.”

The situation has reached a crescendo: either the Rabbi agrees to go or the Shule will be put into liquidation in the next two weeks.”

However, that Deed of Company Arrangement is dependent on the Rabbi vacating the pulpit.

We cannot see a situation where a Deed of Company Arrangement could be put in place with the Rabbi in the pulpit as confirmed by the recently conducted survey that revealed:

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The vast majority (over 70%) of the community are looking for urgent rabbinical renewal.

For them this means a new rabbi who will appeal to families with younger children and teenagers who has the latitude to put his stamp on the Shule without interference from Rabbi Milecki.

The Shule has lost 35% of its membership in the last few years.

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At least 27% of the current membership has indicated that they too will cease their membership if there is no rabbinical renewal.

A further 21% are also at risk for unknown reasons. As such, we would have a totally collapsing revenue base.

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The Rabbi’s remuneration is excessive and unaffordable. He has continually threatened legal action if there was ever any attempt to reduce his remuneration.”

J-Wire understands the rabbi’s remuneration is $380,000. The rabbi also claims expenses over and above this.

But member Robert Krochmalik wrote to James Hochroth, Curtis Manne, Rodney Numberer and David Balkin: “Let me place on the record that Curtis Mann rang me on Thursday night at about 9.30 pm from Gary Cohen’s place and told me we needed to come to an agreement that night. I asked if we could meet and negotiate the next day Friday afternoon and Curtis told me, in explicit terms, and in front of Gary Cohen, that it was not settled by Thursday night then it would be too late and that the Shul would be liquidated on Friday.Curtis also advised me, again in front of Gary Cohen, that you planned to start a public relations campaign to malign the Rabbi and drive him out of Sydney.

Rodney may call that wanting to negotiate. I call it bullying. The Rabbi was out and I had urgent things to attend to and could not come at a moment’s notice. There was no point communicating again on Friday as Curtis made it very clear. Either come to a deal on Thursday night or else liquidation the next day. I asked him to elaborate and he said he couldn’t or wouldn’t.

Please read my comments below. The final decision about the life and death of the Shul is in the hands of the three secured creditors.

I hope common sense prevails but if it does not then it will be on your heads. Not mine. Not Gary’s. Not Kevin’s and not the Rabbi’s.”

Robert Krochmalik then referred to another he mail he sent in which he wrote: “I can’t believe that Mr Hochroth can still call himself President.

According to the Constitution only a board member can be President and Mr Hochroth’s office as a Board member was vacated when he took a mortgage over Shul property.

Bottom line is that the creditors will vote at the creditors’ meeting, not the members.

When you paid off Westpac, I immediately believed that what you were doing was seeking to control the DOCA (Deed of Company Arrangement). And so it turned out to be. You did so without seeking approval or agreement from the membership base. This Company is a Public company.

The Directors have certain obligation under the Corporations Act to act in the interests of the Company and its members you have a fiduciary duty to do so.

How can you say that the matter rests in the hands of Rabbi Milecki? Everyone is fully aware that now the three secured creditors will carry the day. The Rabbi’s vote will not count. The members are not even given the right to vote.

The choice is yours.

Vote for liquidation and it will be your votes that will put an end to the Shul. Everyone will see it as a means for you to get your money back at the expense of the members.

On the other hand if you vote to keep the Shul out of liquidation, resign your positions, and allow a new Board to arrange funding for the Shul’s survival, then the members will still have a Shul.

It’s over to you and to your cohorts. You can choose life for your beloved Shul. Or you can choose death.  The choice is not the Rabbi’s . It is your choice.

In the end, everyone will know who voted at the creditors’ meeting and what was the result.

BTW the Court did not say that the purported termination was invalid, it said it was VOID.

And read Order 3. The Shul has to pay the Rabbi’s costs. The legal costs of the Shul and the Rabbi could have been better spent. No wonder the Shul has no money. Because the Board has chosen to spend OUR money on surveys, insolvency advisors, Administrators , Solicitors, Barristers and now you have the ignominy of having to pay the Rabbi’s costs. But not with your own money. With the members’ money.

What about your fiduciary duty to act in the interests of all members?”

J-Wire has a barmitzvah scheduled for this weekend organised by long-term members, has been changed to the nearby Misrachi Shul.