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providing jewish connections around australia
"Chabad" is a Jewish outreach group with chapters all over the world, and "RARA" stands for rural and regional Australia.
Chabad of RARA is a community organization that serves Jewish people living in rural and regional areas around Australia.
Our team travels great distances to ensure that the needs of those living further away are met, by providing authentic Jewish experinces, support and connection anywhere in Australia.
We demonstrate the values of living a Jewish life, from the womb until the very last breath.
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Learning & Inspiration
  • The Rebbe's 99-Year-Old CousinHear about her father's heroism under Communism and during the Holocaust, how they rebuild their liv... Read More
  • The Unresolved RelationshipTo love and live across the distance. Read More
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Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Melbourne, VIC
Weekly Torah Portion
Upcoming Holiday
Jul. 2 - Jul. 23
Daily Thought
True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories. True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, not one overlapping the other’s domain by even the breadth of a hair. Those who attempt to blur those borders, whatever be their motives—they are unwittingly destroying the world. Beginning with the crucial border between man and woman. For this is...