Yehoram Ulman is a rabbi in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Leningrad, USSR in 1964. He holds a number of senior positions in the Orthodox Jewish community. Activities FREE - Chabad of Bondi Ulman is the Rabbi of Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE), which has been servicing Sydney's Russian-speaking community since 1986. FREE attempts to connect many of the thousands of immigrants from the former USSR to their Jewish roots. In this role Ulman has presided over many adult circumcisions, as they were forbidden in the USSR. Synagogue building controversy FREE had been trying to get a permit to build their new synagogue in Bondi on land that until recently had been a public amenity. Because the space was originally zoned as recreational space, a permit was required to change the use to residential. The Waverley Council did not want the change in zoning since it had been keeping pace with housing needs in the council area, and they felt there was a need for the recreational space. FREE eventually managed to overturn the council's decision after appealing to the NSW Planning Department. In their planning permit they included a security document about the dangers of a 500 kg bomb, a situation that had never existed in Australia. The addition of this document in the planning document led a number of communal leaders and security experts to express "absolute shock". The council on the back of this document rejected the submission because the existing structures were not sufficient to repel a bomb of this size. The problem was a major error by FREE, that they "did not address the issues that it raised in its own submission." The rejection of the permit on security grounds initially caused outrage amongst the Jewish population, and the wider Australian press. Ulman accused the council of attempting to "stifle Jewish existence and activity in Sydney and indeed, by creating a precedent, the whole of Australia, and by extension rewarding terrorism." It was also reported in a number of international publications. However the outrage quickly died down. Far right wing extremist Avi Yemini, planned to hold a demonstration outside the council building, which was to be attended by several members of the neo Nazi movement in Australia. The demonstration was eventually cancelled. When asked to summarise the incident, two prominent Sydney lawyers described it as "a beat up" and that "the only