Beis Menachem Community Centre

What they offer

Beis Menachem Community Centre is a Chabad house in Bentleigh East, led by Rabbi Mendel Raskin.

There is a synagogue on the premises. Visitors are welcomed for Shabbat and holiday meals. They kosher kitchens for the community. There is a mikveh for men.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged, courses from the Jewish Learning Institute are taught and public lectures are held. There is a library.

For children there is a preschool, a Hebrew school, after-school programmes and a children's club.

Older children and young adults have bar and bat mitzvah instruction and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at weddings, circumcisions and funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly and runs a club for seniors.

Holiday programs run through the year, hands on. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here.