Published: 20 September 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
JOSH CHIAT LIKES TO JOKE that he is the only Jew in town. There’s no way to know for sure if it’s true, but that’s not really the point.
In Kalgoorlie, a mining settlement of roughly 30,000 perched on the lip of Australia’s largest open-cut gold mine, there is no synagogue nor any discernible Jewish presence.
People describing themselves as Jewish number so few in the region that they fall under ‘other religions’ in the census.
For Josh, who grew up in an orthodox Jewish household in Noranda, a leafy, middle-class suburb of Perth, the move to regional Western Australia immediately posed a pressing question: How do you practise Judaism in a town with no Jews?
FULL STORY A Jew in the outback (ABC)
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