A new Australian: “His father is an Iranian Muslim who converted to Christianity; his mother is a Burmese Buddhist who fled to Thailand; his adopted grandmother is a Hungarian-born Jew; and his godfather is the senior rabbi at Sydney’s Temple Emanuel Woollahra.”

Rabbi Kamins says the child’s birth is a symbol of harmony: “It shows that we can have different families, different communities, different practices, and yet we are all part of humanity, connected to the same source of life.”