Meir Shlomo Kluwgant (born 1968) is an ultra-Orthodox Chabad communal rabbi in Melbourne, Australia. He has held numerous posts including at Jewish Care, chaplain at Victoria Police, and has at various times held the presidency of both the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) and the Organisation of Rabbis of Australia (ORA). He is the cousin of Yaakov Glasman, who has also been president of the RCV and the Rabbinic Council of Australia and New Zealand. Early rabbinic career Kluwgant began his career as a shochet (ritual slaughterer). He also held a number of senior positions at Jewish Care Victoria over 26 years, culminating in his role as General Manager of Cultural & Spiritual services. He also held a number of smaller roles in the community such as the chair of the Victorian mohelim committee. Communal rabbinic roles Kluwgant is a past president of the RCV. During his time in the role Kluwgant enacted a number of reforms to the structure of the organization including updating the rules to comply with Victorian law, and a framework for professional development for the members. There were also moves to establish the signing of a pre-nuptial agreement for all marrying couples, even though the agreement is unlikely to be of much use under Australian law. It was while in this role that Kluwgant restructured the Melbourne Beth Din following the forced resignation of Sholem Gutnick, due to a number of scandals. Following his time at the RCV, Kluwgant took over the role of the head of ORA, During his time he was active in advocacy and meeting with politicians and other significant members of the community, culminating in a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Abbott. He resigned from the ORA due to his involvement in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, it was rebranded as the New ORA (NORA) in order to distance the organisation from the scandals of its predecessor. He was also active as a chaplain for the police force for many years, and sat on the Victoria Police Multi-Faith Advisory Committee. Role in communal sex abuse scandal Kluwgant over the years has repeated the requirement for abuse victims to report any abuse to the police. However, his response to the abuse was challenged when it was claimed that Kluwgant threatened a victim of abuse that he should not have gone to authorities and that he had "no