13th December, 2019   Gut Shabbes! Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom! Proud to be an Ex-Pat Brit! Happy, happy Friday 13th!   O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive Sir Walter Scott   Yesterday’s vote was a landslide victory for British values, so sadly eroded over the last year. I…

29th November, 2019   Shabbat Shalom! How was your Thanksgiving? Did you remember just how many things we have to be thankful for?   November 29th, Kaf Tet b’November, the 333rd day of the Gregorian Calendar, 72 years ago the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab States joined by…

14th November 2019   Shabbat Shalom   The great Jewish satirist, Ephraim Kishon, wrote: “The State of Israel wasn’t founded so that anti-Semitism would end. It was founded so that we could tell the anti-Semites to shove it.” His best known work “So Sorry We Won” in 1967 was the herald of things to come.…

Tuesday, 12th November 2019   Mid-week update    08:30 in the morning and half of Israeli children are not in school because so far over 50 rockets have been launched from Gaza, Red Alerts reaching from the South to the central region. Surprisingly Hamas is not involved.   The head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ)…

8th, November 2019   Good Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom! Hope this missive finds you well and not too disturbed by the state of our world.   I don’t normally discuss the politics of other countries, unless it directly affects Israel, but an article in the long established British community newspaper “The Jewish Chronicle” caught my eye.…

Dear friends, I wish you a good week, Shevua Tov.   Tolerance is the only way forward. Before you jump down my throat, I’m not advocating tolerating evil, but rather being tolerant toward the thoughts and beliefs of others – to accept the idea that just because people think differently doesn’t mean they are wrong.…

10th October 2019   Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I wish you a day of peace and reflection as Succot, Tabernacles, and the joy thereof is before us.   Yom Kippur is over and we have all made promises to be better people, kinder people, but the world goes on around us in its ever spinning…