An Ordinary Day in Extraordinary Times (27 August 2021) – Communal image entries 101 – 193

Subject: Phoenix | Caption: With Lockdown home learning buddy Luna!

Subject: Phoenix | Caption: With Lockdown home learning buddy Luna!

Subject: Rabbi Rogut & Linda | Location: M by Montefiore | Caption: Waiting for cappuccino

Subject: Rachel | Location: Dover Heights | Caption: Executive Leadership courses were not meant to be virtual

Subject: Romy | Caption: Prepping for exams at my home school desk, still in pyjamas

Subject: Rozanne | Location: Sydney Harbour | Caption: Kayaking . Chasing Sydney Harbour Ferries

Subject: Ruby

| Location: Castle Cove | Caption: Gathering spring time blossoms for the Shabbat table.| Note: The therapy of gardening and heralding the seasons is a very comforting cure to dealing with COVID restrictions

Subject: Les | Location: Waverley | Caption: Work, family and play

Subject: Ryder | Location: Dover Heights | Caption: Socially connection and learning - the new multi-task

Subject: Sam | Location: Willoughby | Caption: You are amazing!

Subject: Jessica, Taya, Dashi & Lolli | Caption: When you can’t have| Note: Have them with your siblings and doggy.

Subject: Clive, Jonathan, Derek & Nevil | Location: Lyne Park, Rose Bay | Caption: We have perambulated all over

Subject: Sharon | Caption: Shabbat alone in lockdown

Subject: Sheila | Location: Darling Point | Caption: The daily score

Subject: Sheila | Location: Darling Point | Caption: Watching Gladys

Subject: Shirley | Caption: Three screens, wires everywhere, engaged students| Note: Filling in for a teacher on long service leave at Moriah College

Subject: Sonia | Caption: Max and me at work from home

Subject: Susan | Location: Darlinghurst | Caption: Lighting the Shabbat candles

Subject: Chloe & Erin | Location: Zoom | Caption: Reading to Moriah Early Learning Centre, Queens Park

Subject: Tom | Location: Canberra | Caption: Online uni lexture in the comfort of his bed

Subject: Vanessa

Subject: Vera | Caption: After a swim on Bondi Beach

Subject: Marc | Location: Sydney | Caption: Working from home| Note: - producing on "The Block S17"

Subject: Warren's dog | Location: St Ives | Caption: Groom your own dog, because you can' find a groomer| Note: Make him a friend from the fur because lockdown makes you do crazy things

Subject: Wendy

Subject: Rabbi Yossi | Location: Maroubra | Caption: Doing a pre-Shabbat Zoom service

Subject: Yossi & Dovid | Location: Maroubra

Subject: Yvonne, Tony & Nadia | Caption: Family lockdown, often spent in front of the computer

Subject: Zoe

Subject: Zoe | Location: Canberra | Caption: Online learning| Note: currently in a Science lesson

Subject: Peter | Location: Sydney

| Location: Dover Heights | Caption: Just another afternoon of home schooling

| Location: Murwillumbah | Caption: Before Shabbat

| Caption: Flowers and cake to cheer me up

Subject: Katherine | Location: East Lindfield | Caption: Making challah for Shabbat

Subject: Black Swan | Location: Centennial Park | Caption: The birds have become my friends

| Caption: Homeschooling

Subject: Barney | Caption: Basking in the sun at breakfast time

Subject: Leah | Caption: Getting Vaccinated

Subject: Rabbi Ben | Location: The Great Synagogue Sydney | Caption: Making a video of shofar blowing

Subject: Anita | Location: Weston Park ACT | Caption: Solitude in Canberra| Note: Black Mountain Tower in background

Subject: M&A&I | Location: Eastern Suburbs Sydney | Caption: Just another Shabbos Zoom

Subject: Gael | Location: Dover Heights | Caption: Covid 19 does not inhibit weeds

Subject: Michael | Location: Dover Heights | Caption: The new job is intense

Subject: Joseph | Location: Dover Heights | Caption: Our family needs a lot of soup

Subject: Ian & Glenda | Location: Lindfield | Caption: Out for a walk

Subject: James & Elaine | Caption: Cleaning up decades of photos.| Note: How come we looked so young back then?

Subject: David, Riley, Dylan & Rachel | Location: Tennyson Point, Sydney/ Park Slope, Brooklyn | Caption: Zoom get-together for Dylan's 5th birthday in Brooklyn

Subject: Brian | Caption: Bliss on the Central Coast

Subject: Michael & Janet | Location: Lynne Park Rose Bay | Caption: Social distancing – husband and wife!

Subject: Tanya & Eva | Location: Kensington | Caption: A lockdown walk in the sunshine to the pocket park| Note: All neighbourhood parks and playgrounds have QR codes for checking in

Subject: Greta | Location: Kensington | Caption: Homemade Year 1 Book Week robot costume. 

Subject: Greta & Trent | Location: Kensington | Caption: Year 1 Book Week costume, proud wearer and maker. | Note: and maker

Subject: Anthony | Location: Maroubra | Caption: Home service anyone

Subject: Miriam | Location: Maroubra | Caption: Fresh batch of chicken soup on the boil

Subject: Anthony | Location: Maroubra | Caption: Sometimes you need extra lighting for your home studio

Subject: Miriam | Location: Maroubra | Caption: Time to start setting the table

Subject: Michael | Location: Point Piper | Caption: Shabbat Snapper Snap | Note: Shabbat Snapper Snap 

Subject: Leora, Zev, Ashira & Aaron | Caption: Taking the opportunity to enjoy homeschooling

Subject: Hynda & Paul | Location: Caringbah South | Caption: Photos replacing loved ones in other states.| Note: An empty Sabbath table during lockdown/border closures

Subject: Charles | Location: Bellevue Hill | Caption: The missing piece

Subject: Keith, Sarah, Caleb & Leah | Location: Queens Park | Caption: Lockdown exercise - look who we bumped into

Subject: Rabbi Elozer | Location: Coogee | Caption: Singing to an empty chamber at Coogee Synagogue

Subject: Sue | Location: Lindfield | Caption: Virtual reading with our Melbourne grandson | Note: grandson

Subject: Jason Romain | Location: Bellevue Hill | Caption: Covid Kiddush in the Park

Subject: Karen | Caption: A day in the life of covid lockdown

| Caption: A day in the life of covid lockdown

Subject: Benjamin | Caption: I have been teaching all of lockdown - this is my battlestation

Subject: Lisa & Ella | Caption: Virtual school and work from home| Note: Ella, doing virtual school at Emanuel,  while Lisa works from home as a lawyer.

| Caption: Shabbas in South Africa, St Ives and Sydney East| Note: Another Zoom shabbas in lockdown with my grandmother and her carer in south Africa, my aunt and uncle in St Ives and my parents in Bellevue Hill! (we are in Dover Heights)

Subject: Jenny & | Caption: Pre-Shabbos Zoom for Family

Subject: Jacqui & Puffy | Location: Bondi Junction | Caption: Online Pilates, with my dog, Puffy, next to my already set Shabbat table. | Note: This is in my loungeroom during the 2021 COVID lockdown in Sydney. Three of us will be at dinner and the rest of my family will join us virtually on the Google Home on the table. We have done this every Shabbat of lockdown and will do it for Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur this year as well.

| Caption: Oranges for Rosh Hashanah| Note: we're

Subject: Carmel & Harvey | Location: Chatswood | Caption: Our 49th wedding anniversary - 27/8/21.  

Subject: Danny, Sandra & Gingi | Location: Bellevue Hill| Note: I got Gingi, our kitten bought to fill the the gap of family and friends missing due to the Covid lockdown.

| Location: Mandelbaum House | Caption: Almond Tree in full bloom| Note: Only for a few weeks over August/September. Mandelbaum means almond tree. It's also the family name of founder, Rachel Lipton nee Mandelbaum.

| Location: Mandelbaum House | Caption: No more self-serve| Note: Residents usually self-serve during meal time. Due to Covid restrictions, the chefs now serve the residents. Some other adjustments currently in place include: an additional Perspex barrier at the Bain Marie, everyone is required to wear a mask, floor is marked for safe distancing and hand sanitiser is readily available.

| Location: Mandelbaum House | Caption: Separate Tables| Note: We've needed to

Subject: Rena | Location: Woollahra | Caption: Visiting my sister in Wolper Hospital

Subject: Kevin | Location: Singapore | Caption: Birthday Quarantine| Note: We had just returned from Sydney to Singapore and were in quarantine in our apartment. It was his 57th birthday that day.

Subject: Marion | Location: Northbridge | Caption: Lovely dining table covered with…

Subject: Marion | Location: Northbridge | Caption: Lovely dining table covered with…

Subject: Marion | Location: Northbridge | Caption: Where's the traffic| Note: Easterly, Strathallen at 8.00am - quite ridiculous…