''Outback Rabbis'' is a 2017 Australian

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

on the

Chabad Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of ...

Hasidic Hasidism () or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe. Today, most of those aff ...

rabbis who seek out Jewish people living in regional and rural Australia. The documentary was directed by filmmaker

Danny Ben-Moshe Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an associate professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He has produced and directed several critically praised documentaries. Career In 2001, Ben-Moshe was presented with the Commonw ...

and aired on the SBS Australian television channel as part of its "Untold Australia" series in 2018. The format of the film follows two rabbis and their wives who explain their mission and activities.

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Films about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews 2017 documentary films 2017 films Films about Chabad Australian documentary films Jews and Judaism in Australia Films set in the Outback 2010s Australian films {{religion-film-stub

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