111028 28th October 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. How are you? The weather here in Israel is so glorious that “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” keeps running through my mind as the sun’s rays become warm and welcoming rather than glaring; the pomegranates are red and ripe, bursting with health giving juice, the oranges…

111021 21st October, 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends In case you are wondering, for us Simchat Torah (Celebration of the end of the reading of the Torah and the beginning of the new reading from Genesis) was yesterday, today is a friday with all the normal cooking and preparations for Shabbat. Life has been so…

111018 18th October 2011 Simchat Torah…………… Gilad is home. Dearest Friends This has been a week of joy, anger, delight and compassion. We are a schizophrenic country at best – we smile during times of terror and we stand tall when the world tries to make us bow down………… today our schizophrenia reached its height.…

111012 12th October 2011 1935, 1935 days – Will he come home for Simchat Torah? Will Aviva and Noam Schalit have reason to dance? Will Hamas perform yet another turn-around breaking the hearts and spirits of this family that fought so hard to bring their son home? Israel is on tenterhooks. We all want Gilad…

111007 Friday 7th October 2011 Yom Kippur is almost upon us. Hopefully we have all spent time in contemplation of our own actions and the actions of those around us to seek ways to make our world just a little better. This week one Israeli made me so proud I could burst and others made…

110927 27th September 2011 Shana Tova dear friends This has been a strange year of wonderful achievements and unbearable lies. It has been a year of revolution, rebellion and renewal, but little sign of democracy in those countries where the people reached out for it. Riots in the East and the West yet it seems…

110923 23rd September 2011 Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova (Happy New Year) to all of you, each and every one, whether near or far, t our friends and family, we wish you a joyous year and for Israel a little taste of the honey without the inevitable sting. Last night I flew back from a…

110911 11th September 2011 Ten years on I was home, watching the television ten years ago, watching the surreal situation as it happened. I felt as if I were watching a movie, it couldn’t be real, it surely couldn’t be real…………….. please G-d don’t let it be real. After several minutes of traumatised immobility I…

110909 September 9th 2011 Shabbat shalom to everyone and especially to my wonderful, adorable and gentle son Daniel. Happy Birthday my darling, I am so proud of you. Zvi and I went for along weekend to Crete. It is just one and a half hours flight which suits me perfectly! On the flight I sat…

110826 Friday, 26th August, 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you had a peaceful week with lots of love and joy. Israel has lots of love and joy but sadly not such a peaceful week. Your media have probably not reported the fact that the rockets have been pouring down on the South of…