RARA in the Media - Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia

Jewish group Chabad of RARA takes outreach to isolated communities

Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 9:30 AM

Link to original article: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/archived/bushtelegraph/chabad-of-rara-takes-jewish-outreach-to-isolated-communities/5122448

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Chabad of RARA is part of a global network of Jewish outreach ministries.(Chabad of RARA)

Jewish group Chabad of RARA travels to Australia's most isolated areas to find and support its people in rural and remote locations. As Sonja Heydeman writes, the group has unearthed some surprising stories.

As Jewish communities in major cites celebrate the start of the Chanukah festival this week, one group is heading into country Australia to support Jewish people living in isolated areas without a synagogue or connection to their culture.

The founder of Chabad of Rural and R… Read More »

Abor-mitzvah at Uluru

Monday, November 18, 2013 - 9:30 AM

Link to original article: https://www.australianjewishnews.com/abor-mitzvah-at-uluru/

A JEWISH-ABORIGINAL didgeridoo player was able to celebrate his bar mitzvah at Uluru recently thanks to the travelling rabbis of Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia (RARA).

Rabbis Yehezkel Tuvel and Eli Adelist made contact with 44-year-old Dwayne Phillis, the son of a Jewish mother and an Aboriginal father, last month during a tour of the Northern Territory.

Recent rabbinic graduates Tuvel and Adelist were travelling around the NT in one of RARA’s ko… Read More »