090501 1st May 2009. Shabbat Shalom to you! I hope this missive finds you well and that you have not encountered any type of flu – be it Swine, Avian, Asian, Hong Kong, or any other variety!!! This was a terrific week! Israelis are not allowed to dwell on their sorrow or their pain, it…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erev Yom Ha-Atzma’ut: A Brief Reminder About Purpose April 24, 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End, has now been published. The two photographs discussed below are discussed at greater length in the book, as part of a larger discussion of the purpose of the…

090423 23rd April 2009. Shabbat Shalom As Israel stood to attention in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust a Persian tyrant stood before the world and told the equivalent lies that Hitler and Goebbels created to dehumanise the Jews in preparation for their heinous plan to wipe us out. http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD232109 Ahmedinejad uses the…

Today, Monday, April 20, 2009, is the eve of Israel’s National Holocaust Day and the opening of the Durban II Conference in Geneva. Today, on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day President Ahmedinejad fo Iran stood before the United Nations Conference on Human Rights and claimed that the Shoah never happened and is an…

090417 17th April 2009. Shabbat Shalom On the eve of the last night of Passover we had our daughter-in-law Shiris family over for the traditionally festive dinner. We sat around discussing the world situation, Israeli politics, the stupidity of Israeli tourists who spend their Passover in Sinai despite the government warnings, and the effect of…

090413 13th April 2009. It all started at 07:30 on Wednesday morning as the sun was rising in the sky. My daughter called to remind me to go outside and experience a miracle… this sunrise was really different to all other sunrises! On Wednesday morning the sun was in the exact position it had been…

090407 7th April 2009. Chag Pesach Sameach Our hearts go out to those Italians who lost their homes and their lives in the horrific earthquake which hit Italy early yesterday morning. Our dear friends David Efron and Kathy Rundell arrive from Miami, as they do each year to be part of our family at the…

090403 4th April 2009. Shabbat Shalom! The 32nd Israeli Government was announced on April 1st and this site gives you their names, positions and biographies. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Current+Government+of+Israel/ It is the largest and most expensive government in Israeli history, but the only alternative was holding new elections. I wish the new Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,…

090330 30th March 2002 – 30th March 2009 There are moments in time which are burned deeply into my memory; times of great loss alongside times of great joy, somehow interlinked. Of all those experiences there is one which stands out, alone in its enormity – the night of March 30th 2002. Driving back from…

090327 27th March 2009. Shabbat Shalom! The question on everybody’s lips is “Did Israel bomb the arms convoy in Sudan?” Well, of course we did and it is hard to keep quiet about such an excellent achievement! If your country discovered an arms convoy heading for your towns and cities what would you do? The…