Last week, as Rabbis Menachem and Mendel were making their way through New South Wales, they spent some time in the city of Wagga Wagga. Although numbering over 80,000 people in the greater region, there are just a handful of Jewish people living there.
One of them is Shoshana. She's lived in Wagga for more than half a century. It had been a few years since RARA had last visited her, and when she saw the rabbis stride into the assisted living center, her eyes lit up! Shoshana shared her memories of Israel in 1948 during the War of Independance, where she served as a medic and provided aid to the wounded. Although the only Jewish person at the center, Shoshana is proud of her heritage, and gladly accepted a copy of the RARA calendar, so she could keep track of the Jewish holidays