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For the past few days, Perth Jewry has been privileged to enjoy a visit from Rabbi Dov Hazdan, Dean of the Torah Academy School in Johannesburg, South

The Perth Jewish community is a very transient one.  People come and people go, for varying lenghts of time.  The community has enjoyed more arrivals

Ask any person who has been part of the Perth Jewish community, or even hosted by the community for a short time, and they will

For the past few days, and across the past few weeks, I have been travelling into some of the remotest areas of Western Australia for

Earlier this week one of the most important community events of the year took place. The opening of the fourth year of the Perth Yeshivah

I havn’t been blogging much the past few weeks, for personal reasons.  Apologies.  I hope to post occasionally over the next few weeks and return

Spring has arrived in Perth, a little late, but good enough to allow us to sit in the Succah in very comfortable conditions. Courtesy of

Now standing on the other side of Yom Kippur, I ended my fast with a review of three books. The first was the book of

The month of Elul grows in intensity, and the days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are particularly focussed on teshuvah. The Talmud teaches that

This year I had a very uplifting Rosh Hashana, immersed in a shule environment that was fully focussed on tefillah. This was followed by an