MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Once again, Melbourne’s Women in Unity held another astoundingly successful event — its fifth since its establishment, in response to the Mumbai tragedy. The commitment to the unity of the Jewish people that originally galvanized its founders, Rebbetzins Riva Cohen, Sara Gutnick, and Miriam Telsner, set the tone for an evening that warmed almost two hundred women on one of the coldest wintery nights of the season. Promoted as a pre-Shavous gathering for women of all segments of Melbourne’s wider Jewish communities, the evening highlighted the theme of ‘the women were first’. The idea that it was the women who were approached first - even before the men at the giving of the Torah, was heard throughout the evening as a source of pride and a call to action.
The Women Were First
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Once again, Melbourne’s Women in Unity held another astoundingly successful event — its fifth since its establishment, in response to the Mumbai tragedy. The commitment to the unity of the Jewish people that originally galvanized its founders, Rebbetzins Riva Cohen, Sara Gutnick, and Miriam Telsner, set the tone for an evening that warmed almost two hundred women on one of the coldest wintery nights of the season. Promoted as a pre-Shavous gathering for women of all segments of Melbourne’s wider Jewish communities, the evening highlighted the theme of ‘the women were first’. The idea that it was the women who were approached first – even before the men at the giving of the Torah, was heard throughout the evening as a source of pride and a call to action.
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