IT'S not your average outback meal. For all its fame as the largest town in Central Australia, there are not too many places around Alice Springs offering kosher chicken soup and gefilte fish for dinner. And there's only one where the host is a 22-year-old rabbinical student from Los Angeles.
Schneur Schneerson expected he might look out of place when he flew into Alice Springs for the first time in April last year. With his full beard and in traditional Lubavitch garb of dark suit and black fedora, he looked more likely to be found on the sidewalks of New York than roaming around Central Australia.
Yet he felt a lot more comfortable than he had expected. "Alice Springs is the type of town [where] you have different charact… Read More »