141219 19th December 2014 Shabbat Shalom, Happy Chanuka. I hope all my Christian readers are counting on their Advent Calendars – only 6 days to go!!!! The news this week has been terrifying and confusing. The dreadful and dramatic hostage situation in the very heart of Sydney, Australia caught the attention of the worlds media and…

141211 11th December 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends What a week! The news was not always good but my goodness it came in fast and furious. The United States reported severe torture of security prisoners by the CIA and security forces, then managed to divert attention by blaming Israeli standards and reports!!! They then further diverted…

141204 4th December 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Two days ago, a 16 year old calmly walked into a Rami Levy supermarket in Mishor Adumim, walked past the guard, pushing a trolley, like all the other customers, took out a knife and began to stab customers leaving the store. He succeeded in injuring two middle aged ladies,…

141128 28th November 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Jerusalem is a bit lonely this week since my wonderful husband is in Mexico, San Diego and Miami………………. things are just not the same! This quote by  Canon Andrew White sums up his heroic attempts at Tikkun Olam and our feelings when defending Israel instead of lauding her achievements.…

141121 21st November 2014 Dear Friends Shabbat Shalom to you all from Jerusalem, the most beautiful city in the world Today I will try to write only positive notes because even after the horror and deep sadness of the events earlier in the week, some goodness came about. Firstly thousands of Jews and Christians attended the funeral…

141118 18th November, 2014 I wish to G-d I did not have to write this letter but write it I will because you need to know. This morning in the religious neighborhood of Har Nof, Jerusalem, at 07:01, men were saying their morning prayers, prayer shawls about their shoulders and phylacteries on their foreheads as…

141114 14th November 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Moshe Dayan once said “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” That is the reason that the Israeli Prime Minister met with Mahmoud Abbas and then with  King Abdullah in Amman under the watchful eye of John Kerry.…

141106 6th November 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friend. As I was writing this letter yesterday my daughter Rachel called me to turn on the TV news “Mum there has been a pigu’a” another terrorist attack on the Light Rail line”. Yet again an Arab used his  vehicle as a weapon racing down the light rail…

141030 30th October 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you are not all shaking in your shoes from the spiders, cobwebs, bats and witches that decorate so many homes in time for All Hallows Eve. Believe you me, we have enough scary things happening in the world without ghosts and ghouls and things that…

141023 23rd October 2014 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends. Shabbat Shalom. Chaya Zisel Braun, American and Israeli citizen, 3 months old, was murdered by a Hamas terrorist yesterday in Jerusalem. Our hearts go out to the Braun family as the entire nation of Israel mourns with you.  Her father, an American-Israeli from Los Angeles, CA, is…