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Collected Item: “Jewish Melbourne Rosh Hashanah in the time of covid”

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Jewish Melbourne Rosh Hashanah in the time of covid

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Photograph

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Our Neighbours offered to blow the shofar for the street. A few Jewish families live on our street in Balaclava. We all gathered in the street, All still and all connected by the mitzvah of hearing the shofar. It was a very special feeling. I felt the need to document this extraordinary event, this moment in history.
In this time when so many of us are disconnected this moment of togetherness felt precious.

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#shofar, #roshahashanah, #community, #connected, #isolation, masked, #generosity, #neighbors, #listening, #mitzvah, #covidmoments, #improvising , #balaclava, #outside, #Isolation, #togetherness

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Zoe Arnott

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2020-09-20
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