Rabbi Yehoram Ulman delivered devastating testimony as the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion officially closed its public hearings this week. The senior rabbi and father-in-law of Bondi terror victim Rabbi Eli Schlanger said the commission was asking questions of all Australians about what kind of country we want this to be.
"This is not only a question for Jewish Australians," he said. "A society in which hatred and extremism are allowed to grow is ultimately a threat to the character of the country itself."
Rabbi Schlanger's youngest son, Rabbi Ulman's grandson, was just two months old when his father was shot dead beside Bondi Beach: "One day he will be old enough to understand what happened," Rabbi Ulman said, "... and I wonder what Australia he will know by then."
