As Rachel, luminous wife of Benny Verbrugge, lit the Shabbat candles on the 36th floor of a luxurious Jakarta apartment building, I started to cry. One year ago was one of the best and also very worst Shabbatot of my life. The best, because I spent it in the company of people for whom Judaism was such a precious part of their lives, and the worst, because I knew that as soon as Shabbat ended, I would be flying out to Washington, DC, where my mother was dying.
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Rabbi Shoshana KaminskyI've been the rabbi of Beit Shalom Progressive Synagogue in Adelaide since 2006. As part of the Council of Progressive Rabbis of Australia, New Zealand and Asia, I'm now on my fifth trip to Indonesia to teach, pray and celebrate with the communities here. Archives
July 2022
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