110303 3rd March 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. This week I will give you short introduction to your links to the wider news, but I want space to tell you about the fun things I did this week! Rebellion and the ousting of dictators rages throughout the Middle East. However…. We cheer the toppling of…

110224 24th February 2011 Shabbat Shalom to all but especially to Tomer Silver, our adored young Israeli who is 13 today! Mazal tov Tomer. Tomer, with his parents Ira and Valery and little sister Sheli celebrated Tomers calling to the Torah while we were in Miami, but the photographs showed his pride. I wonder now…

110218 18th February 2011 Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem!!!! This has been a very busy news week so I will fill you in on the world news, the local news and then our journey home and the days since. Our first paragraph is dedicated to the Palestinian Authority. Mr Abbas dissolved his parliament last week, dissolved…

110210 10th February 2011 Shabbat Shalom from Florida! We are nearing the end of our Floridian sojourn and it has been phenomenal. We saw many old friends and made a new ones and life is good. Betrayal seems to be the name of the political and diplomatic game as the USA turns on those who…

110203 3rd February 2011 Shabbat Shalom, happy Chinese Year of the Rabbit and enjoy the Superbowl!!! I am frustrated!! I don’t know how you manage with the biased and fallacious news broadcasts that you have to suffer! Yes I am still in the wonderfully relaxing atmosphere of Florida but gosh it is ridiculous – do…

110129 Motse Shabbat 29th January 2011 Shevua Tov I was asked an excellent question today. “What is more dangerous, an Arab dictatorship or an Arab democracy”? I believe the latter. Jonathan Mann of CNN suggested that the situation in Egypt bears no resemblance to that of Iran during the reign of the Shah. “Egypt has…

110118 January 18th 2011 Shabbat Shalom doesn’t fit and it is well past Shevua Tov so I will just say Mid-week from Miami! Zvi is concerned because as soon as we left Israel too many things started to happen in our geographical neighborhood!! At least now I understand your perspective of searching for the truth…

110127 27th February 2011 Today is International Holocaust Day, a day to remember, a day to mourn and a day to reinforce our determination that it will never happen again. No more sheep – today we are proud Lions of Judah! As Zvi and I walked around the Florida Holocaust Memorial we knew that Israel…

101231 31st December 2010 Shabbat Shalom – and a happy happy new year. Gosh, this year has been like a Chinese curse…….. very interesting!!!! The events that stand out fr me – in no particular order – Former Israeli President Katsav was found guilty yesterday on two counts of rape and one of aggravated sexual…

101224 24th December 2010 Shabbat Shalom and Joyous Yuletide to all Today we have almost entirely good news which seems appropriate to the date! One piece of good news raised a huge question in my mind. Police and Secret Services both in the US and UK succeeded in finding and arresting some of those who…