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Perth, Australia: Where the Swan River Meets the Southwest Coast

FINDING IDENTITY DOWN UNDER

Community Chanukah celebration at City Beach, 2008. Gant menorah in the sand below. Dovid Birk jumping into the horizon above the sand menorah.
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In the most isolated city in the world, a group of young people chose a path that no one expected.

One afternoon in early September, four young men stepped onto Trigg Beach, a haven for surfers just north of Perth, Australia. A spring storm was […]

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