New Australian Jews
`Adjusting Very Well'

NEW YORK (JTA)—Jewish
situation w a s under immigrants to Australia from
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!greater pressure and harder to Eastern European countries are
Torah reading in the Oriental I bear than in Babylonia where i "adjusting very well and are
synagogues of Israel is divided 'the Jewish community had more helping to strengthen the Aus-
into a three-year cycle instead : freedom and opportunity. By tralian Jewish community,"
of the annual cycle that we : far the annual cycle of Torah Carlos L. Israels. president of
have. 1r iding is the more popular and !United Hias Service, reported
after several conferences with
A number of interesting rea- : acceptable even in Palestine.
sons have been advanced for Sometimes two portions of Leon Fink. president of the
this phenomenon. It has been the Torah are read together 'Australian Jewish Welfare and
suggested that a number of re- I because our common annual Welfare Society of Melbourne.
The Australian Jewish corn-
ligious obligations r e v o 1 v e cycle of Torah readings, ac-
around three-year cycle such as cepted from the Babylonian ' munity leader emphasized that
the three - year cycle of tithes, traditions, divides the Torah :"by strengthening our numbers
through immigration into our
of `Arlah, and the six - year into 54 portions. These are
country with United 1-Has co-
cycle of servitude. Thus the the number of Sabbaths on a
; operation we have made im-
Palestinian community based its leap year.
portant headway toward surviv-
reading on a three-year cycle
unlike the Babylonia!! commun..: It thus follows that on a year al in a religious and cultural
ity where some of the laws which is not a leap year, some sense."
Since 1947. the Jewish popu- I
pertaining to the -land were not of the portions must be doubled
operative. ' up in order to complete the lation in Australia has increas-
It has also been suggested reading by the end of the year ed from 32.000 to 65.000 primar-
ily through immigration. The
that originally Palestinian Jewry (i.e. Simhat Torah).
Furthermore, there are cer- two main centers ,of Jewish
had the one-year Torah reading
cycle, but that the weekly por- tain basic requirements accord- 'population are Melbourne and
tion was cut down stretching ing to which certain portions Sydney, Israels stated in his
the Torah reading to a three- must be read before certain report.
During the past four years.
year cycle so as to allow time ' holidays. Thus, the portion of
for the sermon" on Sabbath mor- "B-Chukothai" must be read more than 5.000 Jews from
Europe.
as well as Egypt and
ning. ' before Shavuot because it con-
Midrashic and homiletic liter- tains the first set of curses in North Africa. were resettled in
ature was felt necessary espec- the Bible ( Megillah 31b). The Australia through the joint ef-
forts of the local Jewish com-
laity in Palestine where the rabbis have arranged it so that
migration
one portion (B-Midbar) will al- munity and t h e
ways come on the Sabbath be- agency.
tween this portion and Shavuot.
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Some Jews recite the Ten
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Somaliland and the Belgian
after the daily prayers.
Congo.
The Mishnah (Tamid 5:1)
states that it was a practice in
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After the destruction of the
Temple. this practice was aban-
doned.
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Torah Reading Cycles Differ
in Israel's Oriental Svnacroo-ues
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