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A video presentation of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s visit to Sydney’s Central Synagogue on the last day of Chanukah.
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Miriam Weinstein says:
No comment on how the Menorah was lit at 3.00 pm??
Totally against the Halacha.
Is Central becoming a Reform/Conservative Temple under Rabbi Levi Wolff?
How sad
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admin says:
They changed the brocha
They what!?
What brocha is said on a Menorah at 3 in the afternoon?
“Asher Yatzar”, “Mezonot”, or maybe “Shelo asani Goy”???