Chabad ACT

16/10/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Noach!

Candle lighting for this evening is 7:00pm
Shabbos ends at 7:59pm

We invite you to join visiting Rabbi Eli and Rebbetzin Elka Feldman from Newtown Synagogue and Young Adult Chabad NSW, for a special Shabbos day service tomorrow at 10:00am. Lunch bookings have closed but all are welcome to the Service.

For more info, please let us know ASAP

For all things this week’s Parshah, please click here:

Noah makes an ark, God floods the earth, a dove brings an olive branch, Shem and Japeth drag a blanket, men build a tower and the first Jew is born. Also: The memory of water, solar and lunar time, the art of waiting and the significance of the rainbow... plus dozens of selected readings from the Mi...

12/10/2026

This Shabbos! Spots are limited. Please be quick to book!

09/10/2026

Special event next Shabbos invite below.

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Bereishis, first Shabbos of the year, and a Shabbos Mevarchim Cheshvan!

Candle lighting for this evening is 6:55pm
Shabbos Ends: 7:53pm

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan is this Sunday and Monday.

Chabad ACT, together with visiting Rabbi Eli and Rebbetzin Elka Feldman from Newtown Synagogue and Young Adult Chabad NSW, invite you to a special Shabbos day service and lunch next Shabbos day, 17th October.
For more info and to register, please email [email protected]

For all things this week’s Parshah, please click here:

The creation of darkness and light, the sundering of matter from spirit, the first human, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war . . . If it's going to happen in the story of man, there’s a precedent in the first Parsha...

07/10/2026

Messages like these, from our non Jewish friends and extended family, bring us much comfort and hope:

Dear Rabbi Shmueli, praying for you, your family and community and our Jewish brothers and sisters on this sombre day. Blessings, Matt and Cathy. 🙏

02/10/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Shmini Atzeret and a Chag Sameach!

Candle lighting for this evening is 5:49pm
Candle lighting for tomorrow evening is after 6:47pm (from an existing flame)
The first Festival of Sukkot ends on Sunday at 7:48pm (the clock changes forward on Sunday morning)

We are extremely grateful to Hashem for the incredible miracle of the failed hijacking and the many lives saved by the outstanding heroism of those who fought back.

For all things Sukkot and Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, please click here: www.chabadact.com.au/Sukkot

Torah Readings and Haftorahs for the first days of Sukkot and Chol Hamoed—along with insights and commentary.

01/10/2026

We have a set of 4 species in Canberra for community use. We are happy to be contacted if you’d like to do the mitzvah with them today and tomorrow. Please message us for details if you’d like to do it.

30/09/2026

And we are ready!

25/09/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Sukkot and a Chag Sameach!

Candle lighting for this evening is 5:44pm
Candle lighting for tomorrow evening is after 6:41pm (from an existing flame)
The first Festival of Sukkot ends on Sunday at 6:41pm

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday afternoon for the Sukkos function, including the Mitzvah of blessing the 4 species in the Sukkah.

For all things Sukkot, please click here:

The seven days of Sukkot—celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the Four Kinds, and rejoicing—is the holiday when we expose ourselves to the elements in covered huts, commemorating G‑d's sheltering our ancestors as they traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land. The Four Kinds express our...

23/09/2026

Final day to RSVP

18/09/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Ha’azinu (Shabbos Shuva)

Candle lighting for this evening is 5:38pm
Shabbos ends at 6:36pm

For all things this week’s Parshah, please click here: www.chabadact.com.au/Parshah

Yom Kippur is this coming Sunday night and Monday.

Save the date for our Canberra Sukkot event: 30 September from 3pm.

The greater part of the Torah reading of Haazinu (“Listen In”) consists of a 70-line “song” delivered by Moses to the people of Israel on the last day of his earthly life.