121228 28th December 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week you get a quick run-down of the news and then, then a surprise for the New Year!! Professor Alan Dershowitz condemned the UN for acting against peace, encouraging terrorism and showing unbridled anti-Semitism. The Kurds, Armenians, the Tibetans, can’t get on the door yet those nations that…

121220 20th December 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Christmas in nearly here and the world is singing of peace and goodwill unto all mankind. Sadly our world is not at peace and goodwill tends to be a one way street. Sad, so many Christian values are decried, so much goodwill extended and I am sorry to…

121214 12th December 2012. Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Shabbat Shalom from wet and windy Jerusalem. Chanuka. Every Jewish Festival tells a similar story; they tried to kill us, we won now let’s eat! Well Chanuka tells that story as well but in a much more involved and important way, it is the only battle fought to preserve…

121207 7th December 2010 Shabbat Shalom and Chanuka Sameach In both English and Hebrew this is called the Festival of Lights. Wouldn’t it be amazing if it became the Festival of Enlightenment? What if, instead of giving your children or grandchildren gifts every day of Chanuka to make up for the fact they don’t have a…

121201 1st December 2012 Shevua Tov dear friends From your letters it is clear that you want to know how we feel here in Israel, how we feel that the world has shown us exactly what they think of us. Well to start with no-one really thought the outcome would be any different and in truth…

121129 29th November 2012 Shabbat Shalom to every single one of you! 65 years exactly since the historic United nations vote declaring a Jewish State beside a Moslem State in the Middle East. . Mahmoud Abbas is nothing if not thorough in his rewriting of history especially in the UN. http://www.zionism-israel.com/ezine/Partition_A_Night_To_Remember.htm Please please listen to this amazing…

121122 22nd November 2012 There is a quote from Russian direct Vachtangov, which loosely translated means “If there is a gun in the first act there will be a death before the last” Israel is currently agreeing to an intermission, not a cessation, nor a cease-fire, rather an intermission to leave the tension behind, have a…

121120 20th November 2012 Excitement! We just had a siren in Jerusalem! I grabbed my coat and with Zvi we went down one floor to the enclosed stairwell of our building and consoled our terrified neighbour, while waiting for the sound of the boom. It was very distant, apparently in the West Bank again. They just…

121118 18th November 2012 I was listening to the radio just now, on my way home from a delightful breakfast with a friend. Radio One was airing an interview with the head of the Israeli Air Force and every few seconds the interview was interrupted “Tseva Adom b’Sderot – Tseva Adom b’Sderot” a few more words…

121115 15th of November 2012 Dear Friends, Shabbat Shalom is a dream this coming weekend. Shalom, sadly, is a prayer not a fact. After eleven years of missile attacks on the towns and kibbutzim along the border with Gaza, culminating in nearly 200 missiles just this month, Israel decided to act. Despite the headlines this is…