Sydney, Australia - Opening Of New Kollel

Sydney, Australia - More than 25 Orthodox Jews: seven rabbis, their wives and a flock of kinder - all of them arrived in Australia to open Sydney's first full-scale kollel, an institute for the advanced study of Torah.

The rabbis and their families were greeted at the airport by Rabbi Shalom Silberberg, the rosh (head) of the new kollel, who arrived in Sydney from New Jersey two months ago to lay the foundations for the Jewish institute.
Two more rabbis and their families will arrive in Sydney in the next few weeks, taking their total to 10 rabbis - the requisite number for a minyan.

The rabbis - all graduates of Lakewood Yeshiva in New Jersey, will be based at the Adas Yisroel Congregation in Bondi.