Link to original article: https://www.jta.org/2007/09/19/global/looking-for-outback-jews-in-australia
SYDNEY (JTA) – The idea of hunting for Jews in the Australian Outback may sound as ridiculous as combing the streets of Jerusalem for Aborigines.
But when two Chabad emissaries set out this summer to find landsmen in the desolate Outback, they were not disappointed.
In fact, had history turned out a little different, there would have been a Jewish colony in the Australian wilderness, but in 1944 then-Australian Prime Minister John Curtin quashed a plan called the Kimberley Project to resettle 75,000 Jews from Nazi Europe in the Outback.
More recent, Australia’s colorful Orthodox rabbi, Joseph Gutnick, became known in the 1… Read More »
