3rd May 2022 ב באייר תשפ”ב Today we mourn those who died fighting to create and hold this little oasis of Jewish life, from before the forming of the nascent State until today. Thousands of lives snuffed out by hatred. In less than half an hour the first siren will sound across the country to…

28th April, 2022 27 לחודש ניסן, 5782 יום הזיכרון לשואה   Holocaust Remembrance Day Never Again? Really? Never again yet as I stood on the veranda with Zvi at 10:00 this morning, whereas in the past every car stopped, not a person moved, during the 2 minute siren which wailed over the whole of Israel. This…

220421 21st April 2022 Gut Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom, I hope you had a beautiful Easter and Ramadan Kareem Time and again I try to understand what drives the international media to villainise Israel. Let me set the scene. The Temple Mount, Harem el Sharif by whatever name you choose, is holy to the three monotheistic…

14th April, 2022 Shabbat Shalom, Chag Pesach Sameach a Blessed Easter and Ramadan Kareem How appropriate that we all celebrate our festivals together, the three monotheistic religions. If only we could all celebrate together irrespective of our different traditions, our different prayers because after all, we all reach out to the same God. Here in…

7th April 2022 Thursday night exactly one week before the Passover Seder! It is a time of festivals, religious festivals, from Ramadan to Easter and Pascha/Passover/Pesach. Spring cleaning by any other name is in the air and the shops have scrubbed down their shelves and replaced the “regular” foodstuffs with Kosher for Passover goods. Even…

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The First of April 2022 29th Adar Sheni 5782 Shabbat Shalom. As we near Passover, Easter, Pascha and Ramadan, a time of deep meaning as we look forward to family gatherings and prayer, others think of rage. It is hard to imagine such rage, encouraged by generations of hate-education and leaders who think only of…

25th March 2022 Shabbat Shalom! Yes I’m back in Jerusalem after the most incredible week in London. Gathering and dispensing hugs and love was number one on my list of “do’s” and that was exactly what I did. Family and friends, Gideon, Stephanie, Sammy, Olivia and Zachary opened their home and hearts and I came…

11th March, 2022 Shabbat Shalom. Today we sense the need for Peace, Shalom, Salaam, Mir and Myr. These last two weeks we have learned to say Lviv instead of Lvov, Kharkiv instead of Kharkov and Kiv instead of Kiev – and watched in horror as a people who just recently learned what freedom means are…

4th March, 2022 1st day of the second month of Adar, 5782 This is the first of Adar – a new month. There are two months of Adar because in the lunar, Hebrew calendar, every four years is a leap year and we have an extra month!! Thus today’s date is 1st Adar2, 5782. Shabbat…