The article below is an exceptionally relevant piece of commentary, that is well worth taking the time to read.  Michael Freund is a well known Jewish leader who has worked to bring isolated Jewish communities in remote diaspora locations to Israel and reconnect them with Jewish tradition.  He also worked for Netanyahu’s Likud administration as [...]

Tomorrow a group of 8 and 9 year old girls will host a siyum on a passage of Jewish learning, through a program that they attend prior to school at 7.30 AM three days a week. Last week, as they do each week, a group of teenage boys attended a cheder class where they are [...]

Last month the UN conducted a world-wide survey with one question: “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a huge failure. In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant. In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant. [...]

Its been wonderful to get so many messages over the past few weeks about the annoncement of engagements.  At least six young members of the Perth Jewish community, all observant Orthodox, have been engaged (noticably, none to each other). Its also noticable that none of the couples concerned will be settling into Perth to start [...]

I didn’t want to write this post.  Midway through last week Jewgle Perth received a comment about an alleged “scandal” at Carmel School.  We were challenged that if we considered ourselves to be a credible source of media about events in the Jewish community of Perth, we were obliged to report this information.  If we didn’t [...]