the yeshiva gedolah was administered by rabbi yossi feldman, a son of the chabad emissary for new south wales, head rabbi and spiritual leader for chabad-lubavitch, new south wales, pinchus feldman, until february 2015 when, following rabbi yossi feldman's evidence to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, the nsw jewish board of deputies labelled his views repugnant and declared him to be "unfit to hold any position of authority or leadership in the jewish community".