Rabbi Pinchus Feldman OAM (born 1944) is the first Chabad shaliach ("emissary") of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in New South Wales, Australia. Biography Feldman is the son of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Menachem Mendel Feldman, the longtime rabbi of Congregation Shearis Yisroel, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1964, he was sent as a shliach by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to New South Wales, Australia, where he married Pnina Gutnick, the daughter of Rabbi Chaim Gutnick. He is the brother-in-law of commodities magnate Joseph Gutnick and rabbis Mordechai and Moshe Gutnick. In 1968, Rabbi Schneerson encouraged him to accept the leadership of Yeshiva Centre. The Lubavicher Rebbe sent a letter to the congregation saying, "you are fortunate to have chosen Rabbi Pinchus to serve as the rav and rosh yeshiva of your community, for he is from among the finest students of Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch,” (Igros Kodesh vol. 25 pg. 236). Under Feldman's leadership the Yeshiva built a number of institutions including a primary school, separate boys and girls high schools, kindergartens, Rabbinical Colleges, Chabad Houses, and a range of educational, religious, welfare, and support services. Feldman has been praised by a number of public figures including Kevin Rudd, who praised his "leadership and dedication for more than 40 years in Sydney had a profound impact on not only the Jewish community but on the wider Sydney community". In 1995, Feldman received the Community service award from Premier John Fahey,for outstanding community services. In 2002, he received the Medal of the Order of Australia, for service to the Jewish community of New South Wales, particularly through the development of spiritual, educational and welfare facilities. in 2006 the Rabbinic Council of NSW bestowed the honour of honorary life president, "in recognition of his success in raising up many disciples (Avot 1,1) and in spear heading ongoing outreach work in the wider Jewish community in Sydney as the head emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Sydney. In 2008, Feldman was honoured by the Organisation of Rabbis of Australia (ORA), as the longest serving communal rabbi in Australia. He was given the title 'Patron of ORA'. Royal Commission In February 2015, Feldman gave testimony before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The hearing was focused on Chabad Institutions in Australia, which had been widely accused of tolerating and covering up child sexual abuse. Witness testimony During his testimony, Feldman said that in the