Biographic notes:
Rabbi Moshe-Dovid Gutnick is one of the heads of the Rabbinical Court in Sydney and the head of the NSW Kashrut Authority. He is also the current President of the Rabbinical Council of Australia and New Zealand. He has been a Chabad emissary in Sydney since 1982, where he was interviewed in July of 2016.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (11 Nissan 1902 - 3 Tammuz 1994), became the seventh Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty after his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, passed away in Brooklyn on 10 Shvat 1950. He is widely acknowledged as the greatest Jewish leader of the second half of the 20th century. Although a dominant scholar in both the revealed and hidden aspects of Torah and fluent in many languages and scientific subjects, the Rebbe is best known for his extraordinary love and concern for every Jew on the planet. His emissaries around the globe dedicated to strengthening Judaism number in the thousands. Many hundreds of volumes of his teachings have been printed, and hundreds of English renditions too.
