Welcome to St Kilda Hebrew Congregation Relaunch site
As part of the Relaunch project currently in full swing we bring you a snapshot gallery of some of the exciting developments in the SKHC. Please feel free to download the latest edition of the weekly magazine 'Shabbat Shalom' packed full with fun, informative, culinary recipes, quality living tips and much, much more.
As a community St Kilda is currently realigning itself to better serve you our members and supporters with initiatives for young and old, better facilities and better services. Please click onto any of the links to witness it firsthand for yourself.
About the Community
The St Kilda Synagogue is one of Melbourne's first three Shules and is the only one to maintain consistant attendance 365 days a year to this very day as well as providing religious Services, Jewish Education, Youth Activities Pastoral Services, guidance and support.
A welcoming general Orthodox approach, striving to engender a sense of belonging among all Jews. Its services are conducted in a 'worshipper-friendly' manner aspiring to high standards of inspiration, dignity and beauty by Cantor and Choir and sermons relevant to the challenges of contemporary Jewish life.
Services and Programs
Services are regularly conducted for Shabbat on Friday evening, Saturday morning and afternoon. In addition, services are held on the evenings before, and on the days of all Chagim, as well as during S'lichot, Chol Hamoed and on Rosh Chodesh. Life cycle events are a specialty of St Kilda Shule. Weddings, Aufruffs, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Births and Britot are conducted and acknowledged in a meaningful way seeking to achieve the very best for our congregants and members of the community.
Congregants' problems, challenges to their health, funerals and minyanim are treated with sensitivity, understanding and compassion. The Shule Board is very active and meets on a monthly basis, supplemented by regular meetings of a large variety of enthusiastic sub-committees.
St Kilda Shule maintains a close, active and cooperative relationship with its neighbour, the Jewish Museum of Australia whose members conduct regular Synagogue tours and the Congregation's facilities are a natural venue for its lectures, training sessions and grand openings. A cordial and constructive relationship also exists with Jewish Care, which is also a close neighbour.
Many groups and organisations from throughout the Jewish Community avail themselves of the Shule's facilities on an ongoing basis, and anyone who has visited our beautiful historical Synagoue edifice can only be moved by the inspirational beauty of its construction.
Our History
Established in 1872 it has played a leading role in Melbourne's Orthodox Jewish Community for over 136 years, currently led by Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn and a vibrant board it is tirelessly working to secure its future.