RARA in the Media - Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia

Friday, February 9, 2007 - 9:00 AM

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Ride for Holocaust remembrance.

A GROUP of Jewish motorcyclists will head to the United States next month as participants in the Paperclip Ride to Remember, a fundraising ride in the name of Holocaust remembrance.

Members of Yidden on Wheels (YOW) will join Jewish motorcycle clubs from North America on the May 5 ride to a Holocaust memorial situated at the Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee.

The memorial, which consists of millions of paperclips representing lives lost in the Holocaust, was the subject of a documen-tary, Paperclips, in 2004.

YOW member Di Lederman, who is taking part in the ride along with David Halperin, Sam and Lisa Blumenstein, and Colin Winter, said that ride was a "… Read More »

Rural, regional Jews find roots in Melbourne

Friday, February 9, 2007 - 9:00 AM

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Rivka Roche (far left) with fellow female participants at a siyum Sefer Torah in Melbourne on Chabad of RARA's weekend retreat.

FOR three generations, Rivka Roche's family kept their Jewish heritage a secret. Despite her first cousin's nephew becoming a rabbi, Roche, 63, who lives in Cairns, was unaware she was Jewish until a year-and-a-half ago.

After confronting her elderly mother, who told her the truth, Roche said she was "in shock".

Roche contacted Rabbi Dov Oliver from Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia (RARA) and last weekend joined 20 guests in a "Back to your heritage" retreat in Melbourne.

"I'm glad I'm here ... it's a process of learn-ing, even at my late age," she said.

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Rural, regional Jews find roots in Melbourne