10th January, 2025 10th of Tevet 5785 462 days of captivity for those hostages that may just be alive Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week has been both wonderful and incredibly sad, a true representation of the honey and the sting. It’s strange, someone asked me why I left the green green grass of Wales…

3rd January 2025 This one is going to be a short missive! Our sleep was disturbed by a Houthi missile, yes one of those big ones that travelled a vast distance. It was shot down somewhere near Modi’in but the entire area was woken up at 04:45 which is later than the usual sirens and…

Friday the 27th of December 2024 This year, with all its fears and tragedies has flown by and I think that there is no-one amongst us that will not heave a sigh of relief at its passing. Too many tears in a world that is changing beyond recognition, yet is all too familiar. I promise…

20th of December 2024 Shabbat Shalom! Just four days until Christmas and two day later it’s Chanukah! Days of family, hope and light. Days of celebration. A friend who lives in Malta, her FB name is Cour di Rosa, posted a brilliant explanation of our days of light and I want to share it with…

13th December 2024 Shabbat Shalom to you one and all. “And now it has come to us to stand alone in the breach, and face the worst that the tyrant’s might and enmity can do, bearing ourselves humbly before God, but conscious that we serve an unfolding purpose, we are ready to defend our native…

5th December 2024 Shabbat Shalom and yes, it’s already December!  Did you begin your Advent Calendar? Have you thought about Chanuka which is around the corner and the sufganiyot (special Doughnuts) are already in the shops although today they don’t resemble the simple jam doughnuts we all remember! They are very fancy with all kinds…

29th of November, 2024 420th of October Kaf Tet b’November Shabbat Shalom dear friends and of course Happy Thanksgiving. It is strange but I feel that each and every one of you is a personal friend. You have held me up when life became difficult and I share my deepest feelings with you, my greatest…

22nd of November 2024 21st Heshvan 5785 Shabbat shalom to you, wherever you may be in this upside down world. Prepare yourselves for a long missive! Charles Dickens wrote “The Law is an Ass” in Oliver Twist, meaning that the law, when applied too rigidly or too flexibly, can be blind to the realities on…

Friday, 15th of November 2024 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom in a world that is becoming more and more unstable, more and more violent, yet we are hopeful, always optimistic that it will turn back into the world we always loved. I’m back by the way!! Thanks to the care of Zvi, Rachel and…

1st November, 2024 Shabbat Shalom. Hope that you had an interesting, even fun, Halloween, or to call it by its real name, All Hallows Eve. I am a fan of J K Rowling, indeed I have been a fan ever since my eldest son Daniel z”l gave me the first book as a present many…