Site Unites Jews in Remote Places

For Jewish converts in places like Honduras, Iran or the Australian Outback, celebrating the High Holy Days has never been easier — thanks to a group of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.

JNet.org, a Web site founded by Lubavitch Hasidim in Crown Heights, matches up via Skype local Torah scholars with “chavrusas” — an Aramaic term for “study partners.”

“I work 10 hours without seeing or speaking to another human being. The closest shul is 500 miles away,” Zevulun Brewer, a rice farmer from a tiny village in the Sakon Nakhon province of Thailand, told The Post during a Skype chat.

“So it’s kind of mind-blowing that I can get help learning Hebrew from someone literally halfway around the world,” he said.

Brewer, 55, discovered Judaism a few years ago and now studies Hebrew twice a week with Brooklyn accountant Eli Hanover.

JNet has matched up thousands of study partners since its founding several years ago, bringing Jews together throughout six continents and in 39 states.

“No matter where you are, whether it’s Vladivostok, Russia, or Yichun, China, we have someone who can learn with you,” said JNet managing director Rabbi Yehuda Dukes.

JNet is affiliated with Chabad, the group that sends rabbis all over the world to meet with nonreligious Jews.