Messages from the Rabbi: Archives

November 2018, Parshat Toldot

Dear Friends, This Friday night marks 80 years since Kristallnacht in Germany. The night of Broken Glass, Jewish homes, shops, schools and hospitals were ransacked and windows smashed while the…

November 2018, Parshat Chayei Sarah

Dear friends, A couple of weeks ago I promised to address a few really core topics in the Torah reading we are currently reading and so this week I am…

October 2018, Parshat Vayeira

This Monday, 22 October 2018, I, along with thousands of Australians, watched Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologise to Australian victims and survivors of child sex abuse. This apology, made from…

October 2018, Parshat Lech Lecha

Dear friends, This week’s Parsha is one of the portions in the Torah I most connect with. It is a story about Avraham, the first Jew who’s clearly a great…