Chabad ACT

29/05/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Naso!

Candle lighting for this evening is 4:42pm
Shabbos ends at 5:42pm

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

21/05/2026

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

Candle lighting for this evening is 4:46pm
Candle lighting for tomorrow night ( from a pre-existing flame,) before 4:45pm.
The Festival and Shabbos ends on Saturday at 5:44pm

Today is 49 Days of the Omer. The final day!

For all things Shavuot, please click here,

Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. The Ten Commandments are read in synagogues, just as they were in the desert on Mt. Sinai over 3,300 years ago.

15/05/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a Good Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar and Shabbos Mevarchim Sivan!

Candle lighting for this evening is 4:50pm
Shabbos ends tomorrow at 5:48pm

Today is 43 Days of the Omer.

Today is Yom Yerushalayim.

Rosh Chodesh Sivan is on Sunday.

Shavuot is next Thursday night / Friday and Shabbos.

For all things Shavuot, please see here: www.chabadact.com.au/shavuot

For all things this week's Parsha please see here: www.chabadact.com.au/parshah

Numbers in the Book of Numbers: 4 camps, 12 tribes, 273 surplus first-born, 22,300 Levites, 603,550 Israelites -- each of whom count. Plus how to take apart God's home, transport it across the desert, and put it back together again

08/05/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a good Shabbos Behar/Bechukosai, Shabbos Chazak!

Candle-lighting today: 4:56 pm
Shabbos ends: 5:53 pm.

Today is 36 days of the Omer.

We have an expert volunteer happy to assist those needing a hand to put together a submission for the royal commission. Please reach out for details.

All are invited to a special double shabbos bar mitzvah coming up in Melboure on June 6.

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For all things this week’s Parshas, please see www.chabadact.com.au/parshah

08/05/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a good Shabbos Behar/Bechukosai, Shabbos Chazak!

Candle-lighting today: 4:56 pm
Shabbos ends: 5:53 pm.

Today is 36 days of the Omer.

We have an expert volunteer happy to assist those needing a hand to put together a submission for the royal commission. Please reach out for details.

Special double bar mitzvah coming up in Melbourne on June 6. All welcome!
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For all things this week’s Parshas, please see www.chabadact.com.au/parshah

01/05/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a happy Pesach Sheni and a good Shabbos Emor!

Candle-lighting today: 5:02 pm
Shabbos ends: 5:59pm.

Today is 29 days of the Omer.

Lag Baomer is this coming Monday night/Tuesday.

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For all things Lag Baomer, please see www.chabadact.com.au/Lagbaomer

24/04/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a good Shabbos Achrei-Kedoshim.

Candle-lighting today: 5:10 pm
Shabbos ends: 6:06 pm.

Today is 22 days of the Omer.

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For all things this week’s Parshah, please see www.chabadact.com.au/parsha

22/04/2026

A real touching act of kindness, Mitzvah and solidarity by a lady in the wider Canberra community. Gorgeously Crochet Kippas for Jewish boys to proudly wear.

17/04/2026

Chabad ACT wishes you a good Shabbos Tazria-Metzorah, Shabbos Rosh Chodesh, and a Chodesh tov for the month of Iyar!

Candle-lighting today: 5:19 pm
Shabbos ends: 6:14 pm.

Today is 15 days of the Omer.

Yom Hazikaron is on Tuesday.
Yom HaAtzmaut is on Wednesday.

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For all things this week’s Parshah, please see

"Justice" -- the very concept is said to be a Jewish contribution to the world. A glance at this week's Parshah shows why. Almost 3,300 years ago, Moses is speaking about equality before the law, due process in the investigation and prosecution of crimes, protection of criminals from vigilante venge...