120217 17th February 2012 Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem!!! Yes we are home! We had a wonderful time in Puerto Rico, Miami and New York and although I miss my NY family it is so good to be home! The last week was a blur of friends and of course the glorious Joshua. My little grandson…

120207 7th February 2012 I know it isn’t Shabbat yet or even close, but since we are going to be in New York with my glorious grandson Joshua this weekend I decided to write to you now. Priorities are priorities after all, but I couldn’t let the events of this week go by without comment.…

120203 3rd February 2012 Shabbat Shalom everyone – Shabbat Shalom from Florida!! My goodness me – leave Israel for a couple of weeks and the neighborhood goes berserk! Assad is about to fall – a leader who has wantonly killed his own citizens while the world just tsk tsk’s is finally about to get his…

120126 26th January 2012 Shabbat Shalom lovely people! It seems strange to write ot you when I cannot see the View from our Veranda – nor the preparations for Shabbat which include the frenzied shopping/cooking leading up to the relative calm. We are in Puerto Rico for a very special occasion – the wedding of…

120120 20th January 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this letter finds you well. The media loves an interesting story. The analogy is always about dogs and biting – that a story is only interesting if man bites dog not if dog bites man. Well, the world media claims that Israeli society is falling…

120113 13th January 2012 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Wishing you a wonderful Friday 13th taking special care of my spelling and what I download on my computer today!!! This has been a good week, despite the news that the USA has rebuked Israel for the “hit” on nuclear scientists in Iran. They have no idea…

120106 6th January 2012 Shabbat shalom everybody. Gosh I am really close to the wire with this weeks missive, but for good reason…………we were out last night and I wanted to bathe my grandchildren to make them squeaky clean for Shabbat then give them chocolates to make them dirty again – a grandmothers right surely!…

111230 30th December 2011 Shabbat Shalom and I hope all my Christian friends had a wonderful and contemplative Christmas. Gosh it is almost 2012! This has been a somewhat exciting year and not the most comfortable. From Arab Spring which the insanely naive politicians described as a blow for democracy we recognise today that it…

111223 23rd December 2011 Shabbat shalom dear friends. Shabbat shalom, Chag Urim Sameach and of course a truly blessed Christmas to all our Christian friends. Isi Leibler is a religious Jew, a truly erudite religious Jew. Isi recognises that the issue of Ultra-Orthodox attempt at control in Israel has gone too far. Confront Unbridled Religious…

111216 16th December 2011 Dear Friends, I won’t keep you long but I feel a deep need to clarify my letter of yesterday. I agree with everything I wrote, no regrets, but I do regret my omissions and want to apologise to Yitzchok. While angry, as I wrote, about the hijacking of certain aspects of…