Thank you to those who attended the 20 August 2023 Falk Lecture, “The Australian Jewish Chaplains of the First World War” given by Judge Dr. Jonathan Lewis. The video of this lecture can be viewed below. In addition, the transcript of the presentation is available as well. AUSTRALIAN JEWISH CHAPLAINCY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR …
On Friday night 11 August, 60 Jews from as far afield as Perth and Gold Coast gathered to bring in the Shabbat. This was the first Shabbat service in the old Broken Hill Synagogue since the Ark Congregation of Melbourne visit of March 2018. The Synagogue on Wolfram St built in 1910 was active until …
The Broken Hill Synagogue -Remote but not forgotten. Read More »
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Held at the Argyle Street, Hobart home of wealthy emancipist Judah Solomon.
Levey trusted Peel as he was 2nd cousin of British P.M., Sir Robert Peel, and that Peel deigned to become the partner of a Jewish former convict. Levey paid dearly for this misjudgment.
Michael Hyam received a grant of 41 acres of waterfront land in 1859 and the beach and town arenamed after him.
Cohen is authorized by the British Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschel to perform Jewish marriages. Cohen superintended the formal establishment of the Sydney Hebrew Congregation in 1832.
One of the few convicts with Jewish knowledge
Another contender is Ann Bocherah, the free wife of Solomon Bocherah, a Second Fleet convict arriving in mid 1790. She was the second Jew to arrive free after Rosanna Abrahams, the infant daughter of Esther Abrahams born in Newgate prison.
