The Australian coal mining city of Newcastle now has a rabbi for the first time in 60 years, with Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossi Rodal taking up the post, the Australian Jewish News reported.Established in 1905, Newcastle’s Jewish community is one of the oldest in Australia, and while the city is now one of the country’s largest (seventh largest, boasting a population of 440,000) and is the single largest exporter of coal on the planet, it wasn’t always that way, with the growing town’s first synagogue consecrated in 1927, according to Chabad.org.It boomed quickly in the mid-20th century, and it…
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