Dear Friends, This week’s Parsha is Parshat Devarim where we begin reading the last book of the Torah. While previous books discuss laws, stories or lessons, the book of Devarim…
Dear Friends, This week’s Parsha is the double portion of Matot and Maasei. Within the readings, the Torah recounts the entire journey of the people of Israel in the desert,…
Dear Friends, This week’s Parsha is Parshat Pinchas. The Torah names the Parsha in honour of Pinchas due to his principled actions of leadership which is recounted in the previous…
Dear friends, This week I, along with many others no doubt, watched the monumental visit of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, on his first visit to Israel. This visit…
Dear friends, Along with many Melbournians I was struck by the terrible crime that rocked our city in the past week with the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon, a…
Mundane that Became Holy: Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein Looking around the shule at the ARK Center this Shabbat morning, I stood, as I did more than a few times in the…
Dear friends, This week’s Parsha is Parshat Shlach. As the book of Bamidbar progresses we see that the desert experience seems to grow in drama week on week. From the…
Dear friends, At the end of this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Behalotcha, we are given some insight into the workings of the house of Amram and Yocheved. While their three…
Dear friends, The last few weeks I’ve had the phenomenal experience of living and travelling the Negev with Lisa and our boys. There is so much to tell but most…
Dear friends, This week we begin reading the Book of Bamidbar and start with reading Parshat Bamidbar. I always laugh at the English name of the Book of Bamidbar, “Numbers”…