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Rabbi on a roadtrip

Friday, 8 September, 2006 - 9:00 am

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RABBI Yisrael Shurack and his wife Ettie call themselves the Leyland Brothers of the Jewish world.

They are part of a program which travels Australia to visit Jewish people in rural and regional areas. They brought the Chabad of RARA caravan to the Central Coast this month.

Translated it means wisdom, / knowledge and understanding of rural and regional Australia. The outreach organisation aims to link Jewish people who do infrastructure in capital cities. There are an estimated 370 Jews on the Central Coast.

Representatives meet and talk with Jewish families, promote awareness of Judaism, provide religious education ma-terials and link them with other people of their faith nearby. Rabbi Shurack said it was based on a basic Jewish belief to love fellow Jews. "

All Jews are united regard-less of physical distance," he said. "We come and sit down and talk about Judaism. If they have questions we try to answer "We can help prepare for holidays or give them access to kosher food."

Mrs Shurack said everyone they had met on the Central Coast was proud to be Jewish. The couple met with a holocaust survivor in Wyong Hospital on Tuesday.

"We have met a lot of people by accident who just see the van. We have also learned a lot from people," she said.

"People come up and ask us about Judaism." The Shuracks will be on the Central Coast for two weeks. 


 

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