Melbourne’s Business District Celebrates Purim

This year marked Chabad of Melbourne-CBD’S 18th Purim in the City, under the leadership of Shliach Rabbi Chaim Herzog.

The event was held in the luxurious CQ Melbourne Hotel on Collins St. Melbourne.

Rabbi Chaim Herzog welcomed the audience and thanked them for their attendance, as well as the sponsors for their participation in the Gourmet Catered Seudas Purim that was enjoyed by the large crowd. He then told the Audience the Purim Story.

A nice large crowd of Bochurim from Yeshivah Gedolah attended, and one of them read the Megillah.

This year’s guest speaker was Mr. Alan Belkin. Nearly one million Australian households have been positively impacted by Alan Belkin’s creations. At 27 years-of-age, this businessman and visionary has already achieved so much. By 23 years of age, he owned his first multi-million-dollar business, and in just 8 years of entrepreneurship total, he has established 6 businesses, employed over 500 Australians, and worked with many companies from the ASX Top 100.

Alan Belkin’s story has humble beginnings as the Australian born son of Soviet Union Dissidents. Publicly schooled, Alan was a Melbourne University early leaver, dead-set on making it as a young entrepreneur. He founded “Electricity Wizard” with a $20,000 personal bank loan in 2010, a business that is now the Number two online comparison site for electricity and gas in Australia!

The audience loved the story that  Mr. Belkin portrayed. He ended his presentation by wishing Rabbi Herzog much continued sucess and hatzlocha in all his future undertakings.