Communities sing as one from Sydney to Melbourne

Two years after his sold-out Australian shows, IDF chief cantor Shai Abramson returned to the country for a pair of concerts that brought Jewish communities together through music.

Presented by The Joint Australia (JDC), the We Sing as One concert drew around 1000 members of Sydney’s Jewish community to Central Synagogue last week for an evening of Jewish pride and fundraising for vulnerable Jewish communities in Israel and around the world.

Abramson was joined on stage by The Joint Australia national director Brett Kaye, Ben Adler and Chutney, Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff, Shimon Farkas, Dov Farkas, the Central Synagogue Choir and the Moriah Primary School Choir.

Israeli ambassador to Australia Dr Hillel Newman addressed the audience, reflecting on his own connection to The Joint during his service in Uzbekistan and the bonds connecting Australian Jewry, Israel and Jewish communities around the world.

The program took the audience on a musical journey through Jewish history and communities across the globe, blending traditional Jewish and Israeli music with contemporary favourites.