Hi!
Today was a wonderful day in Cairns! We started off by visiting some old RARA friends in the center of town and spoke with them for many hours about the importance of putting on Tefilin. Afterwards both of these individuals promised to put on Tefilin every week until Rosh Hashana. We then went on to light a Hanukia (which one of them received personally from a german girl who claimed it was from the times of the Holocaust) with 6 candles, one for each of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
Then, after speaking to many friends in Cairns over the phone, we decided that we will make a big Shabbaton for the Jews in Cairns and hopefully it will work out well, we will keep you informed about this!
We then spoke to another Yid who is a doctor in Cairns and he spoke to us about his involvement in the upkeep of the Jewish Cemetery. Was a very nice fellow and we heard his amazing story about how he literally WALKED for nine months to escape the communist intrusion into his former homeland of Romania. He was very touched that we came all the way over to his house to visit him.
Tomorrow hopefully we will go up to Port Douglas and search out some more Jews...
You can run, but you can't hide!
Alrighty then!
Izzy & Berel
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