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Gabi Kaltmann

Gabi Kaltmann

Gabi Kaltmann is a rabbi at the Ark Centre in Hawthorn.

Gabi Kaltmann’s great-grandparents Rachel and David Miller in 1927, on the day of their wedding at East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, the synagogue targeted in an arson on Friday night.

My family arrived in the gold rush. My great-grandparents married at this synagogue

Built in 1870, it is a place that bore witness to the promise Australia extended to Jewish immigrants, that here, they would not be persecuted for their faith.

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A fire ripped through Adass Israel synagogue in the early hours of Friday.

We feared rising antisemitism would lead to violence. Those fears came true

Burning a synagogue is a violent attack on a community, its history and its future.

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Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann and his Zaida (grandfather), Joseph Kaltmann.

The threat of rising anti-Semitic incidents must not be ignored

Each week, it seems that there are new anti-Semitic incidents. This threat must not be ignored.

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