Yom Kippur pre Kol Nidre Service

Stay Away from Auntie Barbara when she is Pissed

The Moral of Auntie Barbara!

A teacher gave her class of 11 year olds an assignment: To get their parent to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.

Ashley said, 'My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs got broken.'

'What's the morale of that story?' asked the teacher.

'Don't put all your eggs in one basket!'

'Very good,' said the teacher.

Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, 'Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. One day we had a dozen eggs, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched'.'

'That was a fine story Sarah.'

Michael, do you have a story to share?'

'Yes. My daddy told me this story about my Aunty Barbara. Aunty Barbara was a flight engineer on a plane in the Gulf War and her plane got hit.

She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a machine gun and a machete.

She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops.

She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she
ran out of bullets.

Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke.
And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands.'


'Good heavens,' said the horrified teacher, 'what kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?'


'Stay away from Aunty Barbara when she's pissed.'

Mamala choosing a wife for her boykie

Which one does Mamala choose and why? 

Brett Kaye - singing Kaddish

The Chassidic Kaddish always invokes for me the festive feeling of the Chaggim. This orchestral setting was arranged by Alon Trigger.

“Brett Kaye at St Kilda Shul - September 2020

This is sung at end of High Holydays 

Waverley Shul Choir - Great Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur Medley

Shana Tova 

To my Family and Friends celebrating Rosh Hashona- wishing you and yours L’Shana tova umetuka. 

A joyous, peaceful  and healthy New Year. May this year teach us more tolerance more solidarity and more respect. 

Hopefully those of us who are separated from our families will be able to be with them in the not too distant future. 

Wishing you Well over the Fast and May you all be inscribed in the Book of Life!

 Much love

Sharon Glass’s Paper Thin Kichel Recipe

I've been watching all the kichel making for the last 2 weeks on this group and decided today that I would share my granny's special recipe with you. I was brought up making these kichel in her kitchen. I would sit in the kitchen while she rolled the kichel paper thin. They were very special.

And the secret to them is self-raising flour. That's what makes them extra crispy. Not ordinary flour. So I'm sharing this easy delicious recipe with you all so you too can make them.

4 jumbo eggs

1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup sugar

500g self-raising flour

Beat the eggs, oil and sugar until creamy. Add the flour and knead with dough hook until a firm dough.

Preheat oven to 180 C. Spray baking racks and line a baking tray underneath with paper.

Roll out with pasta roller or by hand paper thin. Brush with extra oil and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake 8-10 minutes until light golden. Knock off gently from the rack and cool.

Shana Tovah to you all

Wishing you sweetness and good health for the New Year. 🍎🍏