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Name: M J Casey
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997
E-mail: mcasey@netspace.net.au
Comment: I've found the American Reform Judiasm sites, and ANZUPJ sites, very informative, in particular the differences between Orthodox and Progressive Judiasm. My interest is based on an interest in religious beliefs and my own Jewish ancestory which I believe originated in Germany either three or four generations ago. Eventually, I intend to 'discover' my Jewish links and I hope this Australian site will provide help.
Name: I Cohen
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997
E-mail: i.cohen@unsw.edu.au
Comment: Dear Join

Would you like to put information about my library and our journal list on your site?

I Cohen
Name: Y. Worth
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997
E-mail: bic@matra.com.au
Comment: Very good Web page
Name: katherine goldman
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997
E-mail: goldmanproperty@one.net.au
Comment: thank you for a very interesting and welcoming website.
Name: steve nichols
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997
E-mail: pipic@swbell.net
Comment: I'm located in Houston, Texas. I'm interested in corresponding via "pen pals". I am a member of Congregation Emanu El, in Houston, Texas. I am 50, single and interested in subjects with a Jewish theme. My son, just got back from India, and is now interest in traveling to Australia. Anyone interest in correspondance, drop me a line.
Name: David Zwartz
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997
E-mail: zwartz@actrix.gen.nz
Comment: Read Rabbi Apple's letter and the letter about Tu B'shvat. For last Tu B'shvat we organised a small gathering and tree planting in Lower Hutt near the Dowse Art Museum where the "Children of the Holocaust" exhibition of children's drawings from Terezin (lent by the Prague Jewish Museum) was showing. The municipality donated an olive tree which was planted by a Jewish boy and a Kiwi boy. The tree is doing well, and the exhibition has since been on in other centres (now in Christchurch) and will continue in New Zealand for another year. Although it usually comes in the school holidays, an antipodean celebration of Tu B'shvat is well worthwhile.
Name: Benseon Apple
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997
E-mail: b.apple@earthling.net
Comment: A hearty yeyasher koach to JOIN on an excellent website. JOIN is part and parcel of the make-up of the Australian Jewish cyber community. Another interesting feature which readers may be interested in is the Great Synagogue, Sydney's e-mail Torah list. List. Subscribers receive two emails per week - one an essay on the Torah reading, the other an "Ask the Rabbi" forum. To subscribe for free, send an email containing "subscribe torah-wej" in the body of the message to (majordomo@wej.com.au)
Name: Mariusz Wyszkowski
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997
E-mail: amaz@ctv.es
Comment: Dear friends,

I hope you will be able to help me in this matter. I am seeking for the matrimony of medicals. They were leaving Poland with their two children (son and daughter) after the persecution in 1968. Since this time both live in New South Wales. I knew only a name of the their daughter - Rosa. P l e a s e, I am looking only for an information about my father - Henryk Wyszkowski, dead 1964 in Warsaw, Poland. I shall be grateful for any help.

Please, contact me : amaz@ctv.es or per phone *34-6-5246786

Yours

Mariusz Wyszkowski
Name: Shamir Shlomo
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997
E-mail: shlosha@netvision.net.il
Comment: Sasha, we all, here in Israel are with you in your strugle.

Sasha, dear !

We all wish you, your family and to your lovely country, Austalia Merry Chanuka.

For the coming 98 a Happy New Year, and the most important to you : G O O D H E A L T H !!!

We all feel with you in your strugle.

Shlomo
Name: Estelle Eugene
Date: : Tue, 2 Dec 1997
E-mail: EstelleEugene@compuserve.com
Comment: My husband and I are looking forward to visiting Sydney from December 24th. Our married daughter lives in Elanora Heights. She is married to a very dear man who is not Jewish. We think we are probably very far from Jewish families where she is sited, but would love to hear about the nearest communities. Shalom.
Name: Joshua Stein
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997
E-mail: jlestein@ican.net
Comment: I have not looked at the site for a while and was nicely surprised at the new site. Great work and effort from Geraldine and family/Friends that have helped you.
regards,
Joshua
Name: seymour
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997
E-mail: sponemon@earthlink.net
Comment: I came across this by chance. Would like to hear from female individuals.
Name: Paul Nankin
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997
E-mail: paulnank@surfnetcity.com.au
Comment: What about calling this the Yidternet? Also, perhaps something to help with family purity-saythe Niddahtron?
Name: Fainstein Eliyahu
Date: 17 November,1997
E-mail: c0421977@techst02.technion.ac.il
Comment: I ashame to be israeli while those ,who killed members of your comunity on macabiya ,are free . I support you in your battle for justice .
Name: Jeff Wulkan
Date: 16 November,1997
E-mail: jwulkan@compuserve.com
Comment: I would like my children who are 13 and 9 to learn about Jews from around the world. I thought that Australian Jews would be a good start since it is so far away yet English-speaking. Also, I would like to locate a couple that my wife and I met years ago in Europe. They are Alan and Eva Rutman of Melbourne. I have lost their address and telephone number. Can you help? Thanks you and shalom.
Name: Solomon Goldwyn
Date: 14 November,1997
E-mail: ssg6@cornell.edu
Comment: I am not really sure if anyone reads this but I am currently enrolled in Cornell University and would like information on the orthodox community of sidney because I am considering going there this coming fall. If anyone has any information regarding this please send it to me thanks agin.
Name: Eugene Kushnir
Date: 14 November,1997
E-mail: ykushnir@eden.rutgers.edu
Comment: I am a Sudent of Rutgers College, NJ, USA. I was born in Russia, in a city Odessa, Ukrain. I have an old friend who moved to Australia 9 years ago. I have no way of getting in touch with her. The only info I can give you is that she is 21, used to be a red-head, and her name was Gerra ( in russian ). If you know any person feet that discription please inform her. I have a picture of her about 10 years ago, I am not sure that would help. Thank you for your help.
Name: Matthew Hoffman
Date: 10 November,1997
E-mail: mrhoffman@himail.hcc.com
Comment: I found your web site while searching under the heading "community Jewish school". I was fascinated to learn about Jewish life in such a far-off place -- isn't the Internet an amazing thing? My compliments on your excellent web site.
Matthew Hoffman
Co-President
I.L. Peretz Community Jewish School
Somerset, New Jersey, USA
P.S. Please drop by our own not-quite completed web site at http://people.delphi.com/matthew95/peretz.htm. We welcome your comments!
Name: Isabel Lewis
Date: 3 November,1997
E-mail: lewis@teleport.com
Comment: It's nice to know there are many Jews in Australia. My husband and I have a small woodwroking business. We have been making MYRTLEWOOD products for many years. Recently we have produced a line of Judaica gift products for the internet. Our site is http://www.teleport.com/~lewis If you have a chance, look us up and let us know what you think.
We love the feedback. If you know of any Jewish search engines, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Isabel Lewis
 
Name: David Zwartz
Date: 2 November,1997
E-mail: zwartz@actrix.gen.nz
Comment: Excellent website.
Name: Jenny Wandl Centre Players
Date: 31 October,1997
E-mail: wandl@senalink.com.au
Comment: Lovely web site - how do we fit in - can't see a place for current events of interest to Jewish people
Name: Tamara Rubin
Date: 26 October,1997
E-mail: jrubin@megsinet.net
Comment: Grettings to all fellow aussies. I am 33 married with 3 kids I live in Chicago. I grew up in melbourne and went to Mt. Scopus. Lived in israel for several years. I miss melbourne and would love to hear anything interesting. Does anyone know if I am able to subscribe to the "Jewish News"?
Name: Jonny B.
Date: 22 October,1997
E-mail: 100424.55@compuserve.com
Comment: Hi, I'm a not-very-religious Jew in the UK planning a trip to OZ. How would I meet Jewish people down under (without going to Schul?) Any advice?

Ta very much.
Name: LEONARD GOLDMAN,M.D.
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1997
E-mail: lenree18@aol.com
Comment: A BELATED LASHONAH TOVA TO AUSTRAILIAN JEWS
Name: Steven Linz
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1997
E-mail: steven@gem.co.za
Comment: I am browsing all Australian and Jewish sights on the web as my wife and myself will be arriving in Sydney in January from South Africa to live permanently.I looked over your site and found much useful information.It seems that to maintain one's jewishness one must leave South Africa and come to Sydney.I look forward to future surfing of your site and will join j.o.i.n as soon as things settle.

I look forward to and will be proud of being and Australian Jew.

Bye for now,

Steven
Name: Adele Karmy
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1997
E-mail: karmy@deakin.edu.au
Comment: great stuff!! i really liked the variety of info present. keep up the good work. i'll catch you on line! love Adele (melbourne)
Name: susan
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1997
E-mail: kocen@mailexcite.com
Comment: thank you for your reply to my e-mail.I am wondering if you could help me,or at least give me some directions to pursue. I am re-claiming my Judaism...living on the other side of the planet from my family,and aware of their own cessation of practising their Jewish faith. I am shy and a bit uncertain how next to proceed...Do you have any ideas or experience of people in the same position? I look forward to your reply,and celebrate the internet for getting me this far! Susan.
Name: susan
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1997
E-mail: kocen@mailexcite.com
Comment: I am looking for a synagogue to attend in Bribane...can someone let me know where there is one,before tomorrow,Yom Kippur! one let me know where there is one,before tomorrow,Yom Kippur? Thank you.
Name: arthur coleman
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1997
E-mail: artbluie2@aol.com
Comment: great web site, i visit when i can. keep up the good work.
Name: Harley Frank
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1997
E-mail: hjf@eamc.com
Comment: I'm a 1975 alum of the Hebrew University and I'm looking for David Zwi. Anybody knows where I can find him?
Name: Ethel and Lou Fisher
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1997
E-mail: ethellou@worldnet.att.net
Comment: Your web site was sent to me by an E Mail friend and I find it very interesting. Would like to correspond through E Mail with anyone interested. We are seniors , retired, living in Studio City, California. We have visited Australia 3 times and are hoping to return as it is one of our favorite countries.
Name: Helene Grover
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1997
E-mail: laughhg@magna.com.au
Comment: Thank you for being there.
Helene Grover
President
B'nai B'rith Singles, Sydney.
Name: nonpareil
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997
E-mail: harlevin@star.net.il
Comment: SHANA TOVA!!!
a happy new year!!!
Name: Amy Beth Hamermesh
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997
E-mail: amybeth@umich.edu
Comment: Terrific Site! The Reviews were very usesul in our consideration of the Bar Ilan Responsa Project. I was actually looking, however, for a review of the Book of Legends. Can I find a review of that on your site somehwere? Thanks for letting me know if you have one.

Amy
Name: Alan Siegel
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997
E-mail: joyalan@erols.com
Comment: I don't know if this is the appropriate place for a question, but I'll give it a try. I am planning a business trip to Perth late in October and would like to know if there is a synagogue or gathering that I might attend to celebrate Simchat Torah. Thanks.
Name: Jackie Slezak
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997
E-mail: jsleza@po-box.mcgill.ca
Comment: I'm studying in Montreal for a semester abroad (I live in Syd), this is a cool way to keep in touch with stuff going on back home...thank you
Jackie Slezak
Montreal, Canada
Name: RedStone
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997
E-mail: redstone@acadiacom.net
Comment: Best wishes to all of my brothers and sisters in the great country of Australia. It has been a goal of mine to get to your wonderful country ever since I saw the filmed sights and sounds of your land at the 1984 Worlds Fair here in New Orleans. Some day, perhaps, I will realize this dream.
Till then, Happy New Year, mates!!
Name: enrique chammah
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997
E-mail: ichammah@tournet.com.ar
Comment: I would like to get in touch with Australian,/New Zealand Jews as I plan to move to that country in the near future. I am 46 years old and my family consists of 3 boys and 1 girl my wife and myself.

Please get in touch with me

>From Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Shalom, Enrique
Name: Luis Kleiman
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997
E-mail: lkleiman@sol.racsa.co.cr
Comment: I haven't been able to read anything yet but hope that after the High Holidays, will be suscribed in orden to know more about your community and organizations. I'm from Costa Rica, Central A- merica and want to wish you all a warm and full of peace in the next year. LESHANA TOVA TIKATEIVU.
Name: Michoel
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997
E-mail: michoel@hotmail.com
Comment: Good web site, but make it easier to submit a URL.
Name: Yossi Karp
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997
E-mail: chcmelb@ozemail.com.au
Comment: To whom it may concern,

I am the office manager at Caulfield Hebrew Congregation and I have recently placed a web-page on the internet. I would very much like to add my site to your comprehensive index of Jewish organisations on the internet.I would also like to create a link from my site to yours.

I invite you to look at our web-site at www.ozemail.com.au/~chcmelb. I am looking forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Yossi Karp
Office Manager
Name: Steve Stern
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997
E-mail: stern@servtech.com
Comment: Currently visiting Melbourne on business and I have been made to feel very welcome by the Jewish community. I have attended Shabbat services at Orthodox and Progressive shuls and feel at home in both places. I particularly enjoyed my visit to the Jewish Museum.

Check out my "back home" synagogue web site at
http://www.adath.org/
Name: Dwight Walker
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997
E-mail: dwight@zip.com.au
Comment: Hi

I found you through a Jewish genealogy site. I am also in the performing arts in Bondi area and am very interested in meeting more Jewish singers and musicians to join the Waverley Randwick Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir.

Dwight
President
www.zip.com.au/~dwight/wavphil2.htm
Name: Al Rosenthal
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997
E-mail: arosent@bellsouth.new
Comment: Thank you for an enjoyable site. Nicely done!
Name: Jeri Griffin
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997
E-mail: jeri-griffin@worldnet.att.net
Comment:
Name: Leslie Oberman
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997
E-mail: oberman@tmxmelb.mhs.oz.au
Comment: As an internet correspondent for the Victorian Branch of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society, I would like to ask for assistance in locating people whose relatives overseas are looking for them. Is our J.O.I.N. prepared to help? The J.O.I.N. web page is great.

Regards
Leslie Oberman
Name: Yossi Spindler
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997
E-mail: yossip@infomall.co.il
Comment: Great site , after the maccabiah tragedy i wanted to learn about the australian jewish community , and i did.

My regards to all the australian warm jews and the wounded athlets
Name: Jessica
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997
E-mail: gisi@zip.com.au
Comment: Exellent web site!! but also sad :(( *sob*
Name: Louise
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997
E-mail: sharpie@spin.net.au
Comment: I think that you have done a wonderful job of sending out up to date information about the tragedy in Israel. If it was not for this service that you provide I would not have been informed of the events in Israel as quickly.
Congratulations on a wonderful job.
Name: William Levin
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997
E-mail: levin29@idt.net
Comment: Can you help me? I have a cousin who has lived in Australia for many years. I was planning to come visit him this summer (ours in North America) and wrote him. The letter was not returned nor was a reply received. His name is Lloyd Earl Solomon and his last known address was 6 Hemingford St., East Bentleigh, Victoria 3165. I tried to call him several months ago but was told the number was disconnected. Calling information resulted in the message that his number is now unlisted.

Any assistance you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

William W. Levin
602 65th. Street
Downers Grove, IL 60516
U.S.A.
Phone: 630.963.2124
Fax: 630.963.1998
E-Mail: levin20@idt.net
Name: arthur coleman
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997
E-mail: arthur_coleman@juno.com
Comment: i like to visit now and then, i find your page very interesting it is good to keep in touch with fellow jews around the world. keep up the good work.
shalom.
Name: Tal Lev
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997
E-mail: levtal@giganet.co.il
Comment: I wish to express my sorrow for the tragedy in Ramat Gan.

I am also sorry that the organizers did not stop the "happy" ceremony. I think it was a wrong decision, and does not represent me as a private Israeli citizen.

Tal Lev.
Name: Aub Dobie
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997
E-mail: sayno@australis.net.au
Comment: Dear Jewish Community,

A single issue party has been formed to oppose the views put forward by Pauline Hanson and her group. The address of our web-site is

members.australis.net.au/~sayno

We can be contacted by email at sayno@australis.net.au

People can request more information by writing to
Say NO to Hanson
P.O. Box 358
Springwood
NSW 2777
Name: Julie Elie
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997
E-mail: jseden@dataline.net.au
Comment: I have recently discovered that I am Jewish - and yes I know that sounds strange. Could anyone advise me how to find out more about all aspects of Jewish faith. There appears to be no synagogue near to me so I am feeling rather lost.
Name: Kevin Fine
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997
E-mail: leonardfine@telkom400x.telkom400.co.za
Comment: OUtstanding to see the commitment of the Australian community to promoting Jewish identity. As a South African, it would be great to see our administrators developing this type of information for interanational exploration.
Name: Zahavah
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997
E-mail: whib@om.com.au
Comment: MazelTov!! What a great place. Congratulations on its content and also links.
Name: Hamish Milne
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997
E-mail: hm@werple.net.au
Comment: Do you have a chat club?

Thanks.
Name: JONATHAN BIRIN
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997
E-mail: jonathan.birin@pixie.co.za
Comment: FIRSTLY MAY I COMPLIMENT YOU ON YOUR INCREDIBLY INFORMATIVE AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE WEB PAGE. I AM CERTAINLY GOING TO RECOMMEND THIS PAGE TO FRIENDS IN SOUTH AFRICA. A FRIEND OF MINE , NATHAN GLUCK' S FATHER PASSED AWAY, AND I WAS TOLD THERE WAS A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN OBITUARY WRITTEN ABOUT HIM. COULD YOU PLEASE EMAIL IT TO ME IF POSSIBLE. HE WAS A CANTOR IN SYDNEY. I AM A MUSICIAN AND I PRODUCED THREE ALBUMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN SYDNEY AND PERTH. LETS BENSCH, BEST OF ZEMIROS WITH NATHAN GLUCK AND HOOKED ON HORA. IN FACT I WAS FLOWN TO DO A BARMITZVAH IN PERTH TWO YEARS AGO. I HAD A GREAT TIME WITH MY WIFE AND CHILD IN YOUR COUNTRY. MAZELTOV AGAIN REGARDS JONATHAN BIRIN JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA
Name: alexandru solomon
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997
E-mail: alexsol@mtecnetsp.com.br
Comment: very pleased to find this site.may we 'll get closer ,specially if i can get some good bridge partners.
alex
this is to say that i am thinking of ........ you guessed right.
Name: yair klein
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997
E-mail: compuserve uk
Comment: I just dropped in for a look at the obituries for the rev gluck but Icouldn't find them
Name: Jeff Berebitsky
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997
E-mail: jberebit@indiana
Comment: Hello, to tell you the truth I had no idea that there was a Jewish population in Australia. I live in the United States and we never hear a thing about Australia, which is a shame. I enjoyed looking through your homepage.
Name: Louis Sokol
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997
E-mail: louis.sokol@inline.com
Comment: Very nice web site. Laid out well and easy to navigate.

I write a weekly Internet column in the Houston Jewish Herald-Voice and am featuring your web site as my pick of the week! Congratulations.

Good luck with your site, Louis Sokol.
Name: si frumkin
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997
E-mail: esfrumkin@earthlink.net
Comment: I tried to e-mail some information on Claims Conference to you but couldn't connect to join@tmx.mhs.oz.au.?? We are having problems with New York Claims onf and would like to involve you and get your help.
Name: Gilbert Kleiner
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997
E-mail: gkleiner@erols.com
Comment: I think your website is great. I am involved with Maccabi and met the girl's basketball team last summer in St. Louis. They are great people. I hope they come to Milwaukee this year. I am also trying to find family I just discover since my father died and I was going through some of his papers. I have a returned letter from Alexander Kleiner from Waverly, NSW from 1988. Everyone was killed except my father and a cousin in WW2. It would be wonderful to find these relatives or they decendents. Any suggestions would be welcome. I left a message on the Bullentin board of the Geneolgy society but who knows. Please e-mail back. Gil Kleiner, Executive Director, Beth El Congregation,
8101 Park Heights Ave. Baltimore, MD 21208 USA Thank you so much
Name: Alan Blake
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997
E-mail: awbstl@mail.cdmnet.com
Comment: I am seeking the Sydney Jewish Museum, and Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen. Our loss in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Regards to Rabbi should anyone know and converse with him.

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