thing it’s a precedent for is the principle that if your application doesn’t include the required information it will be rejected." Ulman refused to distance himself from the neo-Nazi presence at the rally on behalf of his synagogue. The new centre was approved shortly after. Sydney Beth Din Ulman is the senior member of the Sydney Beth Din and owns in partnership with the other senior dayan, Moshe Gutnick. The Beth Din has jurisdiction over Orthodox conversions and divorces. More recently the Beth Din making efforts to be the sole arbiter of who is a Jew in Sydney. After the leaking of a secret document from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate it was revealed that the Sydney Beth Din, with Ulman as the senior rabbi, was one of the few Beth Dins around the world that were recognised to perform conversions. After a number of Australian rabbis were placed on a secret Israeli blacklist, Ulman interceded on behalf of one of them to have him removed from the list, even though the Israeli courts are expressing an ultra-Orthodox viewpoint not in keeping with a majority of Australian Jews. The Sydney Beth Din and Ulman specifically have received criticism from the secular judiciary in Australia. They have had a number of their decisions overturned and have lost some appeals. The Rabbinical Council of NSW, of which Ulman was a vice president at the time, issued a ruling that forbade any dispute with a Jewish institution from going to the courts, unless mediation had failed. In 2013 a ruling of the Beth Din against a Sydney man, Benjamin Amzalak, was overturned in the state Supreme Court. The ruling included an excommunication order that called on the community to "expel his children from school and his wife from synagogue". Ulman did not sign this excommunication letter, It was only signed by Rabbis Telsner and Kaminetsky. In a transcript of the Beth Din's deliberations, Ulman was recorded as saying in Yiddish "I am already persuaded, [but] so that we do not give the appearance of impropriety, let us give him [Amzalak] some time to answer." Ulman was also involved in the siruv (Jewish contempt of court order) of South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne. The dispute began when the congregation reduced the salary of their existing rabbi and member of the Melbourne Beth Din, Yacov Barber. The ruling excommunicated all members of the board and