52:(RCV) from 2009-2012 and has been a leading voice on interfaith dialogue. He oversaw the RCV’s guide to multi-faith interactions and presented the first copy to Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu in August 2011. In March 2020 he joined a group of Jewish communal leaders to visit Melbourne’s Lysterfield Mosque on the first anniversary of the Christchurch massacre and in May 2019 Glasman joined Catholic Archbishop Peter Comensoli as joint keynote speakers at a Catholic-Jewish friendship dinner. In November 2011 the Rabbinical Council of Victoria produced a set of guidelines enabling religious volunteers to protect communal institutions on the Sabbath and Jewish festivals in accordance with Jewish Law, a project which followed years of in-depth research and consultation with overseas Jewish legal experts and Melbourne’s Community Security Group.
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in 2017, while still president of the RCANZ, Glasman took a stand against the RCV who had released a statement saying that all Jews should vote against the proposal. Glasman said that the RCV should not be telling people how to vote on divisive issues. In response to
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Glasman has also been an active campaigner against violence against women and was a White Ribbon
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views human life as sacred and its worth is not measured by varying levels of quality of life. With regard to end-of-life decisions, halakha clearly and categorically prohibits the performance of any act that shortens a patient’s life."
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