17th March, 2023 Shabbat Shalom! Shabbat Shalom from wonderful, democratic Israel. The demonstrations here in Israel are not the storming of the Bastille, although it is said that we have our own version of Marie Antoinette; it is nothing to do with Guy Fawkes and the 5th of November plot nor is it the rather…

3rd March, 2023 Shabbat shalom dear friends. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,…

24th February, 2023 3rd day of the Hebrew month of Adar in the year 5783 Shabbat shalom and chodesh Tov, which means that I wish you a good month of Adar. Traditionally, the month of Adar is a month of joy, of happy occasions so I hope that we can leave all the natural and…

17th February 2023 Shabbat Shalom! How are you! Since I promised you to always tell the truth I will begin with the situation here in Israel, but on condition that it is taken in context with what is happening in the rest of the world, with the natural and man made disasters happening at this…

10th February, 2023 Good morning, Shabbat Shalom! I hope this missive finds you well. Today, this week, this contentious world came together to help a country that has suffered a horrific tragedy. Turkey is no stranger to the horrors of earthquakes but the sheer proportion of this quake and its consequences has left the country…

3rd February 2023 12th Shvat, 5783 Good morning, Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom! The wonderful healing rains came down this week, preparing the earth for Tu b’Shvat, the new year for trees – Jewish Ecology! The custom of planting trees and eating fruit began in the 16th century in the town of Sefat by the followers…

29th January 2021 Just a word on the aftermath In 2018, on a peaceful Shabbat morning, a lone gunman stormed into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and stole the lives of 11 souls in prayer. The world, rightly, was horrified and the media expressed its dismay and disgust, so why…

27th January, 2023 Shabbat Shalom dear friends, The great educator Janusz Korczak who saved so many children from the Nazi death machine, said “The one concerned with days, plants wheat; with years, plants trees; with generations, educates people.”  Today is World Holocaust Remembrance Day a day to remember the Shoah, the millions killed in a…

20th January 2023 Shabbat Shalom! I hope you are all well, or at least feeling better than yesterday and if not, that the blue skies look down on you. Malcolm X was highly controversial on many levels but this quote was conceivably his wisest. “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the…

13th of January 2023 Shabbat Shalom! Talking of Shabbat, the latest believable news from the British Royals concerns the Coronation of King Charles III. The Coronation will be held on Saturday, 6th of May and among the invitees is one Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth. Nothing special in that after…