"It's a big club, and you ain't in it," George Carlin, American comedian
The official from Chabad Youth sent out a video this past Friday Nov. 11 to the local Lubavitch community informing us that an unidentified minister from the government was coming to the shule before Shabbes. He was cryptic, claiming he had no idea which minister was coming, and unless you were born yesterday, which I wasn't, this was clearly an apparent blatant lie. As we all now know, it was none other than our tyrannical anti-Semitic Premier Dan Andrews whose visit this Chabad official was eagerly anticipating. He surely knew which minister was coming. In a condescending tone, like a schoolmarm warning her students to behave on their excursion, this Chabad official implored us to behave for the important man. He promised us this visit would be good for not only the entire Jewish community, but for its future generations as well.
As it turned out, a photo of the Premier with a couple of Labor apparatchiks and this Chabad official along with a Rabbi from a local shule went viral among the community. There they were with wide grins like Cheshire cats standing in front of the shule building. It was the Premier, a couple of his Labor lackeys, a local Jewish labor MP, the Chabad official who sent out the cryptic video, and his mate, a non-Chabad Rabbi of sorts from another shule. All chummy mates in a club of which the rest of us are not members.
In case you are living under a rock and don't know it yet, this meeting went viral and a clip of it was shown on Sky News yesterday. Apparently, the entire fiasco was a public relations disaster for all the parties in that photo, as in a room with barely twenty five people, the Premier was challenged. In his usual droning monotone the Premier was doing his best vote buying speech when Leon Kofmansky, a local Chabad member in good standing, spoke out. It's all on video on youtube Jewish Truther here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpF_b3jqn2g so watch it if you haven't seen it. Suffice to say the Premier came off looking very bad, with a deer in the headlights look, he was caught totally off guard.
Mr. Kofmansky, who happens to be a United Australia Party candidate for the Southern Metro Region Upper House, was promptly forcibly removed by security. This alone is a total disgrace. By what rights do these fellow Jewish community members have to throw a fellow Jew out of an open community meeting in a shule for merely speaking his mind? Just who do these people think they are? Apparently they fancy themselves as little communal potentates who think they have the right to censor and abuse fellow Jews.
Furthermore, the entire meeting was concerning the distribution of government funds, and this particular entity was promised $150,000 for a new kitchen for one of the bigger Chabad shules, and an astronomical amount of $400,000 was allocated for a Chanuka party to the Rabbi of sorts whose sister happens to be married to a long time Labor apparatchik and is running as a Teal candidiate for Caulfield (connect the Labor party network dots). What kind of Chanuka party costs $400,00, govt waste anyone? This begs the glaring question, how is a new kitchen in that shule or an extravagant amount for a Chanuka party of such great benefit to the entire Jewish community and its future generations as the Chabad official claimed in his video message to us? And why does this small closed chummy club of Labor party apparatchiks and local school officials get to make these decisions for the entire community? Isn't this taxpayer money? Isn't this our hard earned money? Why do they treat it like it's theirs to decide where it should be allocated? Is this a private or community enterprise? Perhaps the community members have other uses for that $150,000 or that $400,000 that are far more pressing, but why are we never asked?
Look at this club and who was in that photo op. As mentioned above, the Rabbi of sorts in the photo op has a sister who is the Teal candidate for Caulfield and is married to a long time Labor party apparatchik. The local Labor MP for Macnamara (Andrews's token Jew for the area), the Chabad official, and a couple of other of Andrews's lackeys he brought along. These people pretend to represent the best interests of our community however they do not represent anyone except themselves and their own narrow selfish interests. Where is the transparency? How is it that the community is never privy to know what funds are being spent? What mechanisms are in place to ensure no shenanigans go on and no funds get misallocated into private pockets? There are none. And how does the decision making process work? Who makes these decisions on behalf of the entire community and why do these folks make them? We are kept in the dark. A small cabal of Labor party apparatchiks and their lackeys including some Rabbis who claim to represent the entire Jewish community of Melbourne have taken it upon themselves to keep us in the dark, setting themselves up as the potentates of Jewish Melbourne while the rest of us are treated as the plebs.
I for one am tired of the gaslighting, as I am sure many others are too. This community is not some private club of Rabbis, their favorite politicians and lackeys. This is a large community blessed with a diverse population of Jews with many abilities, skills, and talents to bring to the table. But none of this is ever tapped into, the community is never consulted or regarded in any manner as having any say whatsoever. This community has many pressing needs, and is disintegrating in ways that are impacting negatively on peoples' day to day lives, and a gaslighting self serving cabal, a new kitchen and, a $400,000 Chanuka party are not what we need to help us.
