Overview
- The book Conversations with My Rabbi was launched Tuesday at Chabad Bondi with family, community leaders and senior New South Wales politicians in attendance.
- Co‑author Nikki Goldstein and Rabbi Eli Schlanger built the project from a friendship that began after Schlanger blew a shofar at Goldstein’s bedside while she lay critically ill in hospital in 2022.
- Rabbi Schlanger was killed in the Bondi Hanukkah mass shooting in December, leaving the manuscript one chapter short of completion.
- Goldstein finished the final chapter with the help of Schlanger’s wife Chaya and his father‑in‑law Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, who also spoke at the launch to represent Schlanger’s continuing presence.
- Publishers and community leaders say the book serves both as a record of Schlanger’s teachings and a means to help the Bondi Jewish community and wider public process the trauma and remember victims.