Comments on: Carrying the torch – and the Shofar https://www.jwire.com.au/carrying-the-torch-and-the-shofar/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard-Rafael https://www.jwire.com.au/carrying-the-torch-and-the-shofar/#comment-21722 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:32:54 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=28539#comment-21722 We all enjoy the visits of the CHABAD ‘boys’ up here in Cairns. We aren’t so “tiny”, on Rosh HaShena we had about 50 present. Many did the Yom Kippur fast this year. I think there are about 12 families – permanent residents and Australian citizens – in the region. Sure we may possibly be the most remote Jewish community on the planet (the furtherest from any other Shul or Yeshiva) but we keep the flame alive. Best wishes to all of you from the ‘Deep North’ – just because we have crocs in our backyards and some live in very remote places up and around the Tablelands, does this make us Jewish ‘hillbillies’? Lol from us all.

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