21st August 2020   Shabbat Shalom to one and all – I never think of people in “boxes” – it matters not what religion or race my friends are, just that they are my friends. I wish everyone a peaceful Sabbath!   This week we discovered that the incentive, or inducement for the Emirates to…

14th August 2020   Shabbat Shalom, Holy Feast of Assumption and Mabruk for the Islamic New Year   I’m going to shock you! This week is going to be the most positive newsletter for months!! In fact a newsletter full of good news from Covid to diplomacy, from research to successes. Are you sitting comfortably? Then…

7th August 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this missive finds you well.   It’s really hard to stay pragmatic, let alone positive, at this moment in the history of the world, but pragmatic we must stay because it doesn’t help to be anything else!   A horrific tragedy struck Lebanon this week.…

31st July, 2020   Shabbat Shalom, Happy Lammas and Holy Eid-el Adha!   You know what Shabbat is although this is a special Shabbat after the spiritual cleansing of the 9th of Av, Lammas is the Christian Festival of Bread (tomorrow) when many Christians eat popcorn and bake bread, and Eid-el Adha the joyous festival…

200724 24th July, 2020   Shabbat Shalom lovely people. I hope you are well and not too troubled by the insanity of our world. The response to the chaos outside is to take advantage of the time to really get to know our children, grandchildren and, yes, even our spouses!   As much as I…

17th July 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends, hope you have a good weekend.   The easiest thing in the world is to blame our leaders for the failure to contain this pandemic, but is it really their fault? Basically it is a lose-lose situation, a juggling of economy, health and an unresponsive public that…

10th July 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you are well, entertained and busy despite being home. For all the medics out there – thank you, you have done wonders despite the ineptitude of our leaders!!   Since the vote to recreate of the State of Israel out of the shreds of the…

3rd July 2020   Shabbat shalom dear friends. I hope you passed the last 2 weeks without too much drama and are well and surviving yet another round of isolation or closure.   “Get your facts first,” said Mark Twain “and then you can distort them as you please.”   Today’s journalists rarely get their…

18th June 2020   Hello dear friends, I wish you a Shabbat Shalom, I wish you shalom – peace.   I don’t know about you but I am sick of gloom, doom, viruses and politics. So, after I’ve tackled the question on everyone’s lips – it’s good news only – well actually a “Do you…

12th June 2020   Shabbat Shalom dear friends. How are you? Have you read any good books lately? Seen any good movies or series on the telly? Zoom meetings and Zoom grandchildren? It’s a funny old world we live in when people who have kept to the isolation/quarantine/lockdown religiously are so angry that they take…