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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
  • Book Review: Murdered Chabad Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s 'Conversations With My Rabbi'Co-authored with Australian journalist Nikki Goldstein, new book explores faith and purpose through... Read More
  • Sydney Gathers to Celebrate Launch of Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s Book“Conversations With My Rabbi,” out today, brings the slain Bondi rabbi’s voice to life Read More
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Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Melbourne, VIC
Weekly Torah Portion
Upcoming Holiday
Jul. 2 - Jul. 23
Daily Thought
Look deeply within each person you encounter, no matter how brilliant or dull, refined or crude, righteous or wicked you judge this person to be. Beyond their clothes, beyond their skin, beyond their behavior, beyond their words. Beyond the emotions they show, the personality in which they dress, past whatever masks they don to conceal their inner woes. Look deeply and see the vicious war each one fights inside, the battle to remain human in a maddening world—a world you will never know, for no two of us are placed in the same world and no two of us confront the same challenges— —the angst of facing those failures and deficiencies you...