Posted: 10 February 2020
As we are celebrating our 175th anniversary of the consecration of the synagogue this year, we decided to use our website as a space to share the fascinating personalities and stories that has been so important to Judaism in Tasmania.
Please check out the Descendant Stories page on our website to read these stories! We will be adding more and more during the year.
Posted: 29 January 2020
A recent article in the Australian Jewish News shines a spotlight on the synagogue, along with a couple other items about Hobart’s colonial past.
Thank you to tour guide Daniel Albert for giving a tour to the article’s author.
Posted: 20 December 2019
The schedule for our services through April 2020 have been added to our website. You can view a short list of upcoming services on the bottom left corner on our home page, and the full list through our event calendar.
Also, we have added a form under each service where visitors can submit a request to attend the service. For security reasons we ask visitors to complete this form.
Posted: 28 October 2019
The congregation participated in Mazon Australia‘s Mazon Bag appeal, where 14 synagogues across Australia collected donation bags for people in need between Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot.
We donated 10 Mazon bags to Colony 47, and received a letter of thanks for this important effort:
In our program we support people who are experiencing chronic homelessness with high and often complex needs. Your donation of food is very much appreciated and will be provided to those in need. We often provide non-perishable food such as what you have donated, toiletries and clothing to those that we support and they are very appreciative of this help.
Thanks again for thinking of our clients.
Thank you to our secretary Sean Ladiges for organising this appeal, and to everyone who made donations!
Posted: 17 June 2019
ABC Radio Hobart visited the synagogue and interviewed our acting president and long time member David Clark.
Each twelve minute segment has many fascinating historic details about our synagogue.
Posted: 15 September 2019
The Annual General Meeting of the Hobart Hebrew Congregation was held on Sunday, 15 September 2019.
The following people were elected to the Board of Management:
President: Jeff Schneider
Vice President: David Clark
Secretary: Sean Ladiges
Treasurer: Laurence Herst
Louise Knopman
Phillip Zoldan
Danny Joseph
For more information, please visit the board of management page.
Posted: 15 August 2019
For two years now, those that have been coming to the Progressive High Holy Day services in Hobart have been promised a new machzor (High Holy Day prayer book) for the following year. Some may have thought it was some kind of lay-leader hoax or practical joke seeing as the promise didn’t seem to come to fruition. However, it has finally happened!
The new Machzorim are easy to follow and full of thoughtful material appropriate to each part of the service. They match the Mishkan T’Fillah prayer book in that they have transliterated Hebrew and lots of alternative readings on every second page. This has made planning our services a little more complicated than usual but hopefully the services will have a lot more to offer.
The Rabbis who edited the new Machzorim have shared an introduction of the new prayer books.
–Kathy, Progressive Services Coordinator
Posted: 10 July 2019
The Shavuot soup initiative is ran by Mitzvah Day Australia with the aim of making soup all over Australia for those in need during the winter months. We participated by making soup for Loui’s Van, which delivers food to different communities in the Hobart area.
On Sunday 26 May, an enthusiastic team gathered at Sean and Sarah’s house to cook up big pots of soups. The kitchen quickly became warm and steamy with soup boiling away and much chat and noise from the cooks swapping stories and recipes as they chopped. It was a great way to do something together as a congregation but more importantly to give to others from our fortunate position of relative affluence and abundance.
Thank you Sean and Sarah for hosting and all those who came to chop and chat and stir, and others who brought soup. The soup was delivered the next day to the delighted kitchen manager at Loui’s van, who thanked us all warmly.
–Louise
Posted: 16 June 2019
The new Dan Murphy’s in New Town has Kosher Sacramental wine!
Dan Murphy’s (191 New Town Rd, New Town) is located across from the Kmart shopping centre on the corner of New Town and Risdon Road.
You may want to ring to confirm the Sacramental wine is in stock before making a trip, 1300 72 33 88.
Posted: 10 May 2019
Congregation members Lisa Eckstein and Jeff Schneider recently conducted an interview with Joel Rheinberger of ABC Radio Hobart.
Topics discussed include the 175th anniversary of the synagogue, and what it is like being in a smaller Jewish community.
You may listen to the broadcast here.