A very special happening is taking place in Broken Hill on Sunday morning August 13 at 10.30 am in the forecourt of the Synagogue of the Outback Museum – in Wolfram Street.

And you are invited!

Both community members and those passing through to the Mundi Mundi Bash are very very welcome to come along.  

The Synagogue was built in 1910/11 and is now run as a museum by the Broken Hill Historical Society (BHHSoc).

The bench-dedication ceremony there will honour a revered former Minister and two trustees of the old Synagogue. The Community Choir will be singing and some local and visiting historians of outback Jewish history will briefly speak.

And sixty people from Jewish communities around Australia, coming to town from Friday August 11 to Monday August 14, are attending to remember and celebrate the contribution of the Broken Hill Jewish Community from the 1880s to the 1960s.  

The dedication ceremony on August 13 is just one of the activities the Jewish community visitors will take part in, including guided walks along Argent Street and though the Jewish area of the cemetery.

On Monday evening there’s another activity that the community and any visitors to town are very welcome to attend. This is coming to hear the guest speaker for the Historical Society’s general monthly meeting, Margaret Price, Coordinator of the Synagogue Museum, and one of the organisers of next weekend’s event. Society meetings are held in the Meeting Room at the back of the Synagogue complex.

Note that the Synagogue Museum is normally open on a Sunday, Monday and Wednesday from 10 to 3.30, but on Sunday August 13 it will be closing at midday.

More about the Synagogue Museum, including full address and contact details, here.

(Jan Mahyuddin, Publicity/Media, BHHSoc)