Glasman was a pulpit rabbi at the North Eastern Jewish Centre before taking up the role at St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation, one of Australia's oldest active congregations, replacing Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn. He served as the president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria from 2009-2011 and when the Organization of Rabbis of Australia was closed due to the revelations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Glasman was elected to be the second president of its replacement entity the Rabbinical Council of Australia and New Zealand following Rabbi Paul Lewin, who served for one year. He held this position until he handed the role over to Rabbi Moshe Gutnick. In late 2019 Glasman de-registered RCANZ, although the de-registered entity continued to issue statements in its name. Glasman was then elected the president of RCANZ, 3 weeks after the de-registration. Subsequently, in March 2020, the name was re-registered by a group in the community lead by Manny Waks. Waks, as the new president of RCANZ, pointed to numerous problems in the governance of the previous administration of RCANZ including having people who had resigned the organisation listed as directors, having a president who was not a member, and having members who were potentially ineligible.
Positions
Glasman has been outspoken about his desire to accept LGBT Jews into the Orthodox community. During the Marriage Equality Plebiscite in 2017, while still president of the RCANZ, Glasman took a stand against the RCV who had released a statement saying that all Jews should vote against the proposal. Glasman said that the RCV should not be telling people how to vote on divisive issues. In response to Glasman's statement, Rabbi Chaim Cowen, one of the authors of the statement, resigned from the RCANZ. However, Glasman did support religious schools hiring employees who adhere to the values of that school, and that they should be permitted to discriminate in their hiring on the basis of sexuality. During the Royal commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Glasman took a consistent stance on the historic wrongs of the covering up of abuse, and was forceful in his view that under Jewish law any knowledge of abuse must be taken to police. Glasman dismissed some of the troubling findings from the Royal Commission as a fringe group within the rabbinic community. One of these claims included they did not know as a fact that it was against the law for an adult to touch the genitals of a minor. Glasman claimed that the rabbinic community had distanced themselves from such claims, and that they were disturbed by them. Glasman joined the rabbinic community in opposing the proposed Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation in Victoria. Glasman said "halakha views human life as sacred and its worth is not measured by varying levels of quality of life. With regard to end-of-life decisions, halakha clearly and categorically prohibits the performance of any act that shortens a patient’s life." In 2018, Glasman became the first Jewish religious leader in Australia to present at Tedx Melbourne.
