An Australian rock music icon brought down the house at Sydney’s Great Synagogue. Jimmy Barnes brought the crowd of 1,500 at a Chanukah party in Sydney’s oldest synagogue to its feet with his renditions of “My Yiddishe Mame” and “Aveinu Shalom Aleichem.”
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