Shalom!
Been an amazing (half) week! We visited many Jewish graves in Townsville where we said Tehilim by the gravesites of some of Townsville's pioneer Jews. Would you believe there were Jews in Townsville in the mid 1800's? Amazing that there are only about (pronounced) 35 Jews in Townsville after all these years. So then we went to hang out with some of the younger folk in the city, some Jewish college students that are studying abroad. We hung out with them until the wee hours of the morning- was nice to catch up with some fellow Americans for a change (don't worry Aussies, we still love you!)
Before we left Townsville we made a breakthrough invention on how to clean our dishes (see pics). After all the final repairs were made on the RV we finally set sail to Cairns and actually made it there this time.
So we are currently settled in Cairns and have already managed to upset a few caravan park owners. Visited a nice gentleman at a old age home here who was really excited to see us. We put on Tefilin with him and he told us of his plans to go study in Israel one day... not sure if the old age home managers are aware of those plans yet.
We visited a nice Jewish fellow tonight and had a very interesting conversation covering all topics from Jewish politics to Temple sacrifices. Spoke with him until quite late-- hopefully we will see him again at our (Iy'h) friday night Shabbos meal!
From Cairns....
Berel & Izzy
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