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10 Facts About Mordechai Gutnick

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Rabbi Mordechai Zev Gutnick is a prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Australia.

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Mordechai Gutnick is associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement; he is the eldest son of the late Rabbi Chaim Gutnick.

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Mordechai Gutnick's father, born in Ukraine, was Rabbi Chaim Gutnick, a Holocaust survivor.

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Mordechai Gutnick served as an outreach lecturer shaliach for the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, visiting and lecturing in many communities throughout the US and Canada, and was a lecturer and counselor at the Machon Chana institute in New York.

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Mordechai Gutnick received rabbinic training from Rabbi Pinchus Hirschprung among other rabbinic figures.

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At the behest of his mentor, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Mordechai Gutnick returned to Sydney in 1974 to serve as the rabbi of Strathfield and District Hebrew Congregation.

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Mordechai Gutnick has served as Rabbinic Administrator of the Kosher Australia agency since 1997.

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Mordechai Gutnick received a commission to the rank of Captain in 1984 and subsequently served as Jewish Chaplain for 19 years, until reaching his retirement age from that position in 2003.

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In 2008 Mordechai Gutnick officiated at the first Jewish wedding ever hosted by Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, when the federal member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby married Amanda Mendes Da Costa.

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Mordechai Gutnick has served as president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australia and in this role he took a stand against Jews using civil courts to settle their disputes.

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